the truth. la verdad. la verité. it becomes even more abstract when spoken in another language. i saw the truth on a mans shirt today. then a boy with dreads called me a relativist. According to the wikipedia definition, "the term often refers to truth relativism, which is the doctrine that there are no absolute truths, i.e., that truth is always relative to some particular frame of reference, such as a language or a culture." So, no absolute truths?
my definition of truth: truth is an abstraction for what nobody knows. cant my definition of truth be an absolute truth? and can my abstraction of truth turn into a reality? "for when our architectural instinct drivers us to ferret out the patterns in our experience, along with the shapes we impose on it, we all at once find ourselves in the midst of timeless forms...we are speaking terms with the infinite, and remote from daily care while caring passionately to understand the play of these forms, which in turn make sense of the world around and within us."
"Who cares? We do."
I do.
i thought i found truth in a boy today, but then he left my side to talk of nothingness. and to me, he lost it. i thought about the world hes made and the world ive made and how our worlds dont relate but exist in the same world we didnt make. and then i thought about how much of our own worlds we actually created. then i wish we were worlds away from each other because he just makes me so sad.
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I thought of you when I read this today; it's interesting.
"They're constantly on the alert in the realness which might as well be real as unreal, what differene does it make, Diamond Sutra says 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor the unrealness of existence'... Handcuffs will get soft and billy clubs will topple over, let's go on being free anyhow." --A little from "The Dharma Bums"
It's a different view point. Which is worth considering, however, I do not think it's come to until after one has prodded and struggled with the concepts of reality, truth, & existence.
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