DAY 46 - SEEN vs SEING.

I'm knowing myself....
Ain't my hair cool?! It's O.K. Don't worry!
Once y'all decide to know yourself, you'll turn purple and beautiful like me too.

Knowledge essentially is looking back at the past. By nature knowledge is the past and the past is knowledge.


Yet how do you accumulate knowledge? 


- By perceiving or seeing. You can see with every sense you have. Yup, you can see with your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin and ultimately your soul. 


Look and see. Listen and see. Sniff and see. Lick and see. Touch and see. Breathe and see for yourself.


Nevertheless, the mysterious human soul is not limitted only to the 5 senses. There are more, infinitely more ways to see or perceive this world and the others.


So the prerequisite for the past is knowledge, for knowledge, perception, for perception, senses and senses, the soul.


- Huh?! 


Please take a breath then breathe out . . . before you continue.


The problem is your individual soul perceives this physical world through the senses and your senses in essence are unstable and most of the time, unreliable. That's why as scientists we look at the same thing over and again and again and again to the Nth times before we can dare to say we really see, and even when we say we see, what we think we seem to see is still not perfect. Hence our perception of this world is ever incomplete.


So what's the use of the above clearly convoluted observation?


- Simple, just to know oneself. Thence to merticulously watch oneself. To watch oneself in both senses of the word. That is to say, (1) to watch so one may know and  (2) to be watchful or extra careful when one's forming a mental conclusion.


Practically speaking, sadness comes from quick mental conclusions of negatively selected and perceived past events. Sadness just means you constantly live in the neg past. 


From there you project those negativities everywhere in your mind and life then decide that will be the future - your future, and hence induce worry and stress. Obsession with the future also leads to mental break down.


Basically, all the problems boil down to forgetting where and that you are in the present. Instead of rewinding and watching the already-seen past events and projecting them into the imaginary unknown future, just watch what is . . . now. 


Be in the now then all worries and stress and sadness just stop.
Be in the now then all the burden of attached past just drop.
Be in the now then all the fear of confused future just disappear.


Be now in your breathing . . . . 
Be now is breathing . . . . 
Be now is breathing . . . . out into the pleasant presence of the Most Holy Spirit of infectious joy and passionate peace. I like that! 


God bless y'all.