Jumping To Conclusions, Or Coming To A Conclusion

Jumping to a conclusion may be right – and then again, it may not.
Coming to a conclusion means we have looked at every possibility, analysing it and testing it – and it has tested us.

Let’s say the lights go out. Jumping to the conclusion, “It’s a fuse!”, doesn’t address why it blew, and how to trace the problem. Of course, we can call someone in to fix it, but we aren’t any the wiser, and we have to rely on what we are told by the electrician guru. ‘Gurus’ work in different ways, so how do we know who we can trust? Our lack of knowledge can be very pricey … been there, done that.

The same goes for realising our spiritual essence of pure consciousness. We can easily accept that we are pure consciousness, but acceptance is still a belief. Even if the Vedas and the Buddha say that we are pure consciousness, we have to check it out for ourselves and, in doing so, it checks us out – that is to say, we understand what, through experience, we have realised.

Analysing makes life so much more interesting when we put the conclusion to the test. What is the test? The test is in our attitude and behaviour; are we more receptive? Do we have more empathy and compassion for others, because they know not what they do?

Empathy is been there, done that, regretted it and suffered. If we haven’t been there, done that, regretted it and suffered, we are just theorists who have jumped to conclusions.

We learn by our mistakes
which clouded our experience, understanding and realisation,
and caused us to jump to conclusions.

Coming to a conclusion is clarity,
and clarity is divine splendour