LIMITS AND PERCEPTION

The important is to define the interests, not to specify the details.
The search for knowledge should be approached from an intuitive state of mind, giving us a global insight of the dynamics rather than the exclusivity of the shapes. Our knowledge should feed our curiosity, not our understanding. Of course, knowledge is also understanding but understanding is not a condition, it is a process.

This is not preaching for ignorance, ingenuity or purity of spirit. This is not casting a romantic eye on the beauty of our inner child. In other words this has got nothing to do with the deadly conspiracy perpetrated by those people ingenuously constrained in the mist of cosmic myths. Myths are ideals that say something about us, as fairy tales do; one doesn't need faith to relish their beauty. The ideal is nothing more than a form of relative assertion. On the contrary I am not proposing an ideal, but the vision of a simple state of mind devoid of values and believes.
Perhaps it could be explained by making a comparison between the difference of possessing knowledge or insight: you don't make a movement, you are the movement; you don't feel a sensation, you are the sensation; you don't say a word, you are the word; you don't generate an idea, you are the idea. Insight is the truly fundamental characteristic of knowledge. Insight often shows us how the consistency of physical phenomena is solely dependent on the nature of subjective perception.

At the same time, it is important not to fall in an easy prejudice by attributing a negative value to rigidity in itself. Rigidity is the seed of reality and it possesses an inner beauty too, nevertheless it is necessary to see that its nature is three-dimensional and relative to our own perception. .
Three-dimensional because it loses consistency when objectively observed within the frame of time - the fourth dimensions of our physical reality. In the space-time fabric all phenomena are fluid, an intricate web of relations. Reality is a continuous process of exchange of information. The fact that we cannot always observe it, or perceive it, or measure it, does not make the process less real.
Relative to our own perception because our own perception is in itself rigid, that is to say: limited. These limits depend on our physic and psychic structure. At the same time, as we can exert a certain influence on both of them by means of our will, we are able to shape (until a certain extent) the nature of what we perceive. We can limit it more or less.

Dull eyes will see a dull world, eyes already filled with certitude will have room only for a small and sterile world. Empty eyes will have enough space for a world of striking richness and beauty.


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