Choosing to leave the contradictory carousel
The two-faced nature of reality will drag us along while pushing us forward. Choicelessly chosen to choose if we believe that we have a choice. We can’t choose not to choose since it would be a choice.
So, what do we do? Do we alternate between the perspectives? Sometimes believing in good, sometimes believing in bad? Sometimes looking through the lens of love, sometimes through the lens of fear? Alternating between worrying and being hopeful? Or can we choose to settle on one side, and become ignorant to the other end?
Can we have absolute faith in the world and ignore all our doubts and fears? Or would that be foolish? That question, for example, is based on the fear of doing something foolish. But what if foolishness might be the right choice? The hidden door, out of the maze of contradictions? To not take linguistic distinctions of opposites too seriously and just see them as analytical information available for consideration, but no possible truths due to their contradictory nature?
Well, how does one then coordinate the intricate world of contradictions? How does one find the point of balance between the extremes somewhere in the middle of the spectrum? Who is asking that question? Is it your analytical processing algorithm that thinks of itself to be the one in control of making that decision?
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Aren’t you rather the one hearing that question than the one asking it? Or are you somewhere in between the two? Both, but also none of them? Can you get a feeling for what I’m doing? How I’m balancing these opposing perceptive descriptions of who we are and what all this other stuff is? While we are apparently part of this other stuff, but also not. These are just thoughts. Don’t worry about them. Worrying about them is just the process of creating more thoughts while witnessing these worrying thoughts. Just stuff your brain does.
Are you attached to this? Do you think that you can influence this? Isn’t it the brain thinking? So, the brain thinks it controls itself? Does your belly think that too? Or does your brain think it also controls the entrails? Does any of them need to be controlled? Or can we just trust both to do their job and just observe what they are doing?
Which way do you choose to go? Or is it all chosen for you? Or are we somewhere stuck in the middle? Somewhere in the rainbow between black and white? Just being presented with this kaleidoscopic perspective or actively navigating it? Both? Is my magic working? Are these questions allowing you to step back from analytical thoughts to experience the paradoxical nature of analytical thoughts, to realise that what you are looking for is what you are looking with. Something besides analytical thoughts that can consciously recognise this thought process as something it is witnessing?
While the thoughts are still trying to think about themselves and what they might be, are you leaning back and watching your mind trying to solve these contradictory questions and to find answers, while the answer is not definite but rather somewhere in the middle? Because the mind does not know. It just likes to think it does, but how could thinking be knowing if thoughts can be this contradictory? All we ever know is what is happening right now. We only know now. Everything else we think we know, are just thoughts we have right now. They might be coming back around. They can be quite repetitive patterns. But maybe they won’t. How would you know? Don’t worry. Just breath. Trust the world. Or don’t. Your choice.
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