Who Created Our ‘Reality’?

This ‘reality’ was created by those who convinced people to believe in truth, rather than knowing truth for themselves. We therefore became reliant on them.

Convince: to cause to believe firmly in the truth of something, from Latin convincere,   from con‘with’ + vincere ‘conquer’.

This extremely subtle deception requires the acceptance of an idea without proof; we become bound to commentaries and translations of commentaries, ignoring actual evidence through personal experience. It’s why the Buddha said, 2500 years ago, “Do not take my word for truth. Test it for yourselves”. The deception was recognised that long ago … 🙂

This fabrication of a false reality is a confidence trick, which creates a lack of true confidence, and a reliance on dogma. Once we accept a belief, we will accept any make-believe story. It’s why people divide and argue.

The only truth that is available is the presence of awareness, to be able to know. To be aware of this awareness – not finding anything else in the inner silence of meditation – is the non-duality of pure awareness. Truth is never in a book; it is the pure awareness of what is in the book or under the stone … any book, any stone.

For thousands of years, we have enthralled by what’s in the book or under a pile of beautiful, architectural stones.

Just to be clear:
it in is the looking in a book
or in the looking under a stone
that the ultimate truth lies.

It’s not what’s in a book or under a stone.
🙂