Definitely, Brandy is excellent at expressing herself. My background is quite different hence my confusion. I know of regular prayer and am vaguely aware of rosary and chants. My knowledge of what contemplative prayer is was lacking, so I was trying make sense of things as best I could from my own knowledge. But to understand the truth, my perspective alone isn’t enough. Brandy’s explanation shined a light on the truth. Just used that as an example to express an eastern perspective I’d come across on truth.

I’m very much a fan of eastern philosophy. Mostly Chinese. A lot of the quotes are quite new to me. I have enjoyed learning and trying to apply what I’ve learned through eastern philosophy and practices.

The Tao Te Ching has been my favourite book since my teens. Part of what I appreciate is how the translation changes the meaning of the text.

The last line contains many variations.

Therefore consider: advantage comes from having things
And usefulness from having nothing.

Thus being is beneficial,
but usefulness comes from the void.

Thus do we
create what is
to use what is not.

The way I conceptualise it based on my own experience is similar to the ego and the watcher. When I was younger I had no awareness of the watcher. I was all ego filling it. For a while the ego was afraid of meditation. Afraid to be set aside for a short time. With time it was no longer afraid and awareness of the watcher grew. More space grew within the watcher, the ego grew a little smaller. Within that space, happiness grew. My ego didn’t need to be at the forefront all of the time. Of course, frequently it still is. Now, I find my ego is associated with experiences of anxiety.

I heard of a talented meditator that experienced thought for only 30% of the day.