What is the world? What is a peanut?
- Magical Mindful Living
- Apr 2
- 3 min read
In simple terms the world is a system of believes which assumed to be true.
Well, that really needs more explanation than that. After looking at everything holistically, we can come to above conclusion about the world. It is not easy. It may be even unnecessary to know this to spend a successful life. But as "success" also a thing in this relative world someone wise might appreciate the importance of knowing this.
What is a peanut?
Imagine you went to the market and bought a peanut. Why peanut? Because it's something that you can keep on your palm small enough to know. You can choose anything. Even an onion would do. Keep it on your palm and look at it for a minute. And know what is feel like. Try to think about everything you know about this peanut. It's weight, its smell, its color, it's function. Depending on your knowledge you will spend few seconds or minutes or minutes. But the problem is you cannot know everything.
If you turn the peanut around, you will know its backside. But what about the front side? If you feel it's weight, you will not focus on its color. You do not even know how many cells there in this peanut are. Weather this peanut on your hand is capable of creating another peanut. Really speaking you wouldn't even know this is a peanut. It's just a name that everyone agreed upon and put to these kinds of nuts. So, the peanut is a relative truth. Can you see what happens?
Whenever you look at your peanut, you would access the database of your past where these relative truths are stored. And apply it to understand the current peanut. This process mind you has a long history. Since you were born to this world you have been storing these memories. And the fact is you do not know about the current peanut in your hand if not for the previous nuts in your memory.
Danger of knowing what the world is.
We can stop here for a moment. As I see the danger of believing this versus knowing in this.
If you assume what I said was true about peanut, you will start to believe in a "false" world. A world with no peanuts, no coconuts and no cars or ships. The problem with this approach is it doesn't make you move forward. Making you stuck in an unrealistic world. You might not even get up from your bed. As it has no value in it if everything including money is relative. But instead, it must not be just knowledge but wisdom.
But when your mind knows this fact and look at the world with mindfulness, you can experience this as a fact. It is like the nature has cheated us to believing in some kind of matrix, and the wisdom of relative truth is the code to break this matrix. If we are a giant one consciousness a single person breaking the illusion would be enough for the entire living species. Yet we are stuck in our own relative worlds. So individually we must see relativeness of truth for ourselves.
Knowing the world in mindfulness.
I can remember a while ago, an afternoon in the turtle beach. A mesmerizing wave crashing on the coral reef to break up into thousand bubbles. And watching this in slow motion is even better than the reality. And it makes me happy to think about it. But the mind doesn't allow me to stay there, dwelling in this happiness. Or even sadness. As it was just my interpretation of the world. A fisherman living by the sea might not see what I see. Instead, I drive my mindfulness to the feeling of the cold tiles on my feet in the room. Maybe these pink walls harbor more meaning about life than the waves.
The world is just a peanut, waves or walls. Whatever which comes to your mind, is the world.
Hmmm. So if a peanut is only a relative truth maybe aphasia is less of a concern?