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Hi Murtaza
For me its like giving up my mind, the most thing i value, the control i think i have.
Totally get that.
Like you I desire to have all the info before making a choice
I have this doubt that makes it impossible to know something for sure, even if i got all the possible info, there would be still some missing info, some gusses, and depending on luck and randomness, i can’t have that, i don’t trust that, i started to feel that whatever choice im gonna make, its gonna be just as disappointing as picking it randomly.
Lots to unpack here. You have this doubt that it makes it impossible to know with certainty. But you don’t doubt this. You “know” with certainty that certainty is not possible, some unknows will always be involved in any choice. You can’t or do not want to accept what you ‘know’ which is getting in the way of you finding a ‘skillful’ way of living with what you know. One of the things noted in your comments is that they show no indication of being in doubt. You have no doubt about the present which you tend to project into the future which is going to be “just as disappointing” as if picked randomly = no control = despair.
The one certainty I have is that ‘We very easily create what we Fear’ more so then what we hope for. I know this because I do it (and observe it) all the time.
I guess I still have a kind of hope. Hope that the “third force”
Did it happen yet? Did the third force got any closer? For me i can’t do that, i can relay on hope, it feels like im lying to myself, something i despise.
That the conciseness of which you experience your problems can’t be the same conciseness that solves it
But this is the only conciseness i have, “all i know, is what i know”
I did a horrible job trying to articulate that. Perhaps because its not only ‘mind’ thing, not a thinking thing… I’ll try a story
A sparrow is trapped in a empty old grain silo. During the day the sun shines through the cracks in the wall and in panic the bird flutters around checking out each ray of light hoping for a why out but the cracks are never big enough. Every night the bird lies exhausted, disappointed, in the dark, depressed. This cycle continues until the bird no longer checks out the rays of light for escape. To depressed to be depressed at rock bottom the sparrow finds itself ’empty’ – stops thinking, dreaming, worrying, even hoping… this emptying is a happening not a something willed for if the sparrow thinks this is not what it wants. In this emptiness , this space, this quietness, the sparrow notices a breeze coming from a small hole in the ground that it had never noticed before. Entering into a dark hole in the ground is the last thing the sparrow would ever had imagined itself doing, one of the reasons perhaps it was not conscious of it before. Terrified the sparrow enters the dark tunnel that goes deep into the ground until it eventually leads upward and into the world.
The third force and ‘new’ consciousness is the breeze from the dark hole in the ground the sparrow felt and did not come from the mind in which it was stuck. While the sparrow was franticly fluttering around seeking out ever crack of light for a answer or laying defeated on the ground stuck in its mind/fear it was blind to the experience of the breeze. It is only when the sparrow detaches from mind, fear, depression, hope even love… that the third happens and the way out becomes conscious. Not known as the sparrow cannot know what lies within the dark hole. Only that the breeze was fresh air (new level of knowing). The way out is not up but down. The sparrow lived happy ever after… when one day it found it self in a house with no obvious way out…
The way out (any new level of knowing/consciousness) is not up but down. Letting go (emptying) of the thinking (mind) that keeps you stuck which I know is terrifying.