Relative truths - Can you lie to a horse, hog, or machine? What it really means to be 'in our truth'.
Some know ‘relative truth’ through mind, but claim it to be essential truth of heart.
(Relative truths are tentative distinctions and transient events masquerading as essential ‘truth’.)
Many who say, "I'm in my truth” have defined truth in multiple ways for their convenience.
Mostly, relative 'truths' are nobodies business. Personal activities, medical records, religious/tradition/intellectual beliefs, philosophical ‘explanations’ and leanings, dreams, desires, emotional connections, triggers, thoughts, attachments, shortcomings, mistakes… are all found in duality (and none are absolute ‘truths’). They reside in knowledge, not knowing. These tentative distinctions related on a 'need to know' are thing-truths created by our programming, imagination and societal consent, and seen out of context from the whole. For us to decorate them as ‘truths’ encourages unneeded judgment, reinforces attachment to ‘mind’, and tempts us to use them in the inflamed ego dance of power plays.
There are relative truths which we choose to no longer care about, while embracing the great absolute truths we do.
We determine which truths are which, then reframe their value.
Indeed, being 'in your truth' is bigger than just 'telling the truth'.
What’s deemed as ‘the truth’ doesn’t always mesh with sovereignty. These peculiar ‘truths’ are subconsciously inculcated to gain dualistic ‘advantage’. In this state, clever semantics act to assuage hidden fears while retaining convenient beliefs.
“An old and wrinkly man drove up to my farmstand. He leaned out the truck’s window and started talking…”
Barnyard chickens rarely question the basis for their ethics and morals. The few that do are disturbed upon what’s scratched up… while the rest gleefully cluck about their sturdier ego-roost.
“Can ya lie to a horse?
Can you fib to a hog?
Should you feel bad if you deceive a machine?”
“Have you ever know someone to set a condition that total ‘truth’ must be spoken, grabbing the tongue of others and forcing it to move against their will?”
How can you be in your truth if you’re not present? And when you’re present, how is it that the weight of most ‘truths’ simply disappear?
Seesaw of truth. Lasso that beast and you’ll discover most ‘truths’ are actually beliefs made of flimsy 2x4s.
“Have you ever had to deal with someone who had the power, and demanded from others who had to answer to him, to agree to a set of untruths... so he could save a belief system he couldn’t live without?”
“If so, let me tell ya what….
If I could turn back time I’d lie for you if a donkey held the power.
I’d lie for you if I didn’t have the right to make my consequences visit you.
I’d lie for you if my love for you was greater than my love for ‘me’.
Damn, starting yesterday, I’d rather be honorably sovereign than what passes as integrity and truth any day.
What ya say, let’s give an old fashioned middle finger to the ‘truth’ that some ride into town on.”
Underneath the ‘hat of mind and sly brim ego’, we find juicy phrases to make us look awesome. Here, take a bite!
Many of the so-called ‘righteous’ are climbing the ladder of false virtue.
In this image you can see the ‘Barn of fruitful deception’. Inside are all the right words that you can use to make you look upstanding and virtuous.
He’d cranked out his middle finger a bit, and started to wave it around. Usually I just ignore the riff-raff if they don’t seem to be interested in buying anything. Still, I found his discourse amusing, and for some reason he appeared somehow familiar.
He continued his rant;
“Any belief this worlds truth comes close to love, or that truth is love, is the clucking of chickens.”
Here, the ‘glasses of perception’ are being used to re-template and signal virtue in what is said, and how the listener hears the person who delivers it.
Are you willing to accept the truth no matter what it is?
“If a hungry child stole one of yer apples… I wouldn’t say a thing.”
The use of ‘honesty’ can be easily twisted to cover cowardice.
“Nope! You actually think for one damn second I’d feel that I wasn’t in my truth? Tell ya what son, all this relative truth garbage masquerading as honesty is nothing but undercover cowardice. Too sniveling and lazy to swallow a karmic hit; sons of bitches won’t even endure a few cuts n’ bruises.”
Something in his voice sounded so familiar. Still, I stood back, with smile written across my face and asked, “You going to buy something!”
““Hell no!” he said, with a wry smile, as he launched into a new rant...”
Is an unexamined ‘being in your truth’ covering up your essential being? Is it preventing you from being peaceful in the eye of the storm? Is it impeding the state, goals, and love you want to return to?
Behold the blinding light of using words that keep us from looking at our disguised judgment.
The ‘glasses of perception’ are seen hanging on a rusty old truck grill.
“‘No’ and silence are great replies to those who hanker for information that’s none of their damned business. ‘Truth’s’ a word the ‘spiritually arrogant’ use to mask their swollen entitlement to your private world.
The feeling of having to answer any question you’re asked, as if the other person ‘deserves truth’, is like playing with scorpions and wondering why your dumb self’s in the hospital.
Nobody needs to know which hand you wipe yourself with… or do they? After all, ‘What do ya got to hide?’ Ever played that game?”
Yeah, maybe he was right. But his voice was that of someone I once knew. Before I could ask he blurted;
“Opening your mouth and blasting out what is, calling it ‘truth’, then identifying yourself as a baddass of honesty is arrogance. Those thinking truth’s a thing, a fact, an event are off their rockers. They believe because something ‘is’ for a moment on their watch, it can be called the truth. Couldn’t be further from the truth! Their lack of vantage keeps them from seeing what can be.”
The ‘hat of mind’ devises sinuous methods of changing the real meaning of words.
Suddenly I had a vision, that of my Dad and I. We hadn’t seen each other for, well, at least 40 years. I stammered, “Ddaaa…” as his tirade stampeded,
Do you purport to be ‘all about the truth’, but haven’t taken the time to understand essential differences between soul and spirit?
Do you state that you’re ‘all about the truth’, but are unaware of what the essential nature of ‘light’ is?
“That’s right son. I finally figured it out. Being in your ‘truth’ ain’t a license to ignore higher truth. That’s why I tracked you down.
Do yourself a favor, don’t be like me. Old dogs can learn, but rarely choose to change. For me, it’s too late to stop being that stubborn horse, or a self-absorbed pig.
At least I’m not an unquestioning machine anymore.”
“He hit the gas and took off like a geezer on steroids.”
‘In my truth’ is a statement we cling, yet we also find ourselves saying, ‘everything is choice’. We do our best to ignore the consideration, for the implication of admitting ‘our truth’ is that it’s also ‘our choice’. Facing the two, a new vantage appears. We become vividly aware that the relationship between what ‘we want’ (or don’t want) is the real driving force.
The ‘inconvenience’ of traveling the competing desires road is having to navigate the potholes of accountability!
The ‘value of vulnerability’ is a powerful realization. Yet, the awakening was smothered by ego, who screamed, “Share share share! There are no boundaries. That’s an actualized, ‘truthful’ soul”. From there, many ignored the difference between the vulnerability of now, and the unbounded vulnerability leaving one open to unnecessary judgment, ridicule, and washed karma that no longer defines. >>>>>
This skewed version of ‘vulnerability’ is that which the power hungry egoish desire you to embrace. Your consent provides the sensation that you’re doing the right thing, with a correct growth mindset, and openness to new possibilities. When in truth, your reward is a less apt dualistic experience, a place where your will is stomped upon by those with the information of where and what ‘you’ve been’.
“I just sat there, disconnected from that old soul, astonished.”
Are you in love with the truth enough to question all of your current ‘truths’?
People who ask questions out of greed, to accentuate their ego, or to purposely draw the incorrect conclusion are neither desiring nor worthy of reality in an answer.
Thoughts about what passes as ‘truth’
The head attempts to trick the heart into believing its truth. It places ego strangled perception over possibility. Real truth is not ‘what is’, it’s ‘what can be’. If the two don’t agree, and someone is bound to get hurt, it’s best to go with the latter - even if that turns you into a ‘liar’ in others eyes. A glaring, judging version of truth is a dream of limited value, one resistant to subordinating itself to love (if it has any consequence).
Do you think truth is as great as love? Do you think it’s not subordinate to love? Well, love doesn’t give a hoot about what most call ‘truth’. Love’s sovereign, not built of a need for comfort. It’s willing to spin the merry-go-round in the other direction, to go ‘up’ the slide to see what MIGHT BE. It’s willing to take a punch.
The ‘truth’ of some suffer from the delusion that there should be no personal barrier between one soul and another.
Most commitments to ‘always speak the truth’ are really hobbled excuses for subdued judgment or cruelty.
The mistaken ‘spiritual’ will say ‘the truth always comes out’. Which… if it’s a relative dualistic truth, is rarely accurate. Unless of course, the mutterer of such words wants to enhance their ego by bringing it attention. One who honorably rejects ‘enlightenment’ as the final state is willing to ‘lie’ for the greater good, washing karmic residue if need be. Only ego based judgment makes issue of relative ‘truths’.
Declaration - I am under no obligation to answer a question that is none of your business.
Declaration - I am under no obligation to answer in a way that incriminates me for your benefit.