A road to you real identity

Although any human being is not completely blind, he sees his real identity to various degrees. Because the real identity is a source of everything, it is extremely creative and wise. Having so much power, it is also infinitely happy. Those three qualities are the signposts that are on the sides of the road to your real identity. By allowing yourself to be creative, wise and powerful, which happens when your imagination is restricted only by logic, you are getting closer to it.

Not everyone knows how to be creative. I can't say I was taught this at school. Creativity has no limits, and schools are limiting. However, let's ponder over the last statement in the light of my first article about life. Nothing can limit you but you. The only limitation you perceive is the one you create for yourself. This may be hard to acknowlegde, but try breaking your limits and you will see. For example, buy a tee you have never tasted, go to a shop where you have never been, etc. Suddenly you notice the world is really yours. This leads us too:

DOING SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT PREVIOUSLY IMAGINED IS THE ESSENCE OF CREATIVITY

By being creative, you discover new territories. While your real identity is nothing new (in fact, according to my current reasoning skills, it always existed), you decided it is something you cannot see fully. Therefore, you need to rediscover it.

What about being wise, the second quality and signpost at the sides of the road to you? Do you become wise by reading books? If this was true, you could read all books about Earth written when it was known it was flat and be wiser. Clearly, it doesn't work this way. The truth is that you need to perceive correctly to increase your perception, thereby dissolving illusions, like this one about the Earth, as I wrote in a previous article. This is the way to becoming wiser.

The third quality I mentioned is being powerful. We live in an age of power denied - we deny it and give it to others, like doctors, politicians, teachers, companies, etc. The ultimate falseness of this point of view is apparent because all living being are equally powerful. Notice that the power is in the thoughts - you create with your thoughts. The more you create, the more powerful you are. Therefore, to become more powerful, you have to use your natural abilities, like imagination and creativity, never forgetting about logic. Your natural abilities are the most powerful tools that exist.

Your real you is extremely happy. Because you are essentially nothing, the hapiness results from perceiving nothing. Let's analyze this for a moment. Did you notice that when you are unhappy, it seems the universe is like a fist that threatens you? But the universe is your creation so what this really means is that you threaten yourself. Of course, you don't wan't to threaten yourself consciously. This means the unhapiness results from a law that you created and subdue to it. On the other hand, when you are happy, the world looks completely different - it seems to dissolve itself as if it was losing substance that made it threatening. It looks light and ethereal, as if it was closer to dissolving itself and allowing to see your real nothingness through this now vanished substance.

Every time you do something that distances you from your real identity, you become unhappy because you know your real perfectness less and less. Your real identity is not the only one - everyone has it. Therefore, distancing someone too has the effect on making you unhappy. You have to follow the road and help others following it. Nothing less, nothing more.

Further thoughts on life

PREFACE: This article is based on my discoveries about life and communication skills which are the topics of two previous articles.

I promised I would write more about life as it is the most important subject that exists, according to my current reasoning skills.

A very interesting discovery I made in the previous article about life is that it is nothing. I'm not exactly sure it is true because it sounds so surreal. However, when Copernicus discovered the Earth rotates around the Sun, not vice versa, he might have similar feelings. Anyway, a death sentence probably won't happen for me (at least for this article), so I will continue to maintain my courageous attitude regarding something so apparently obvious as life.

Starting from the discovery that life is nothing, we may continue in any direction our imagination will take us, using only logic as the breaking pedal. Here is how it works. Imagine you are sitting comfortably in your Ferrari. Don't have one? OK, I will give you a special version, modded by me. The modified Ferrari works like this: replace the gas pedal with your imagination, and break pedal with logic, and... it's your's for the asking! Happy ride :)

If life is nothing, it means we can live to the fullest extent when we in some manner perceive nothingness, i.e., perceive ourselves. This is because our real identity is so perfect that the mediocrity of everything that exists is outshined by it. This means the only reason we exist in the physical universe is that we have not discovered our real identities. Now, because life is a game, we can simply notice that the purpose of living in this universe is to discover our real identities which are so perfect that such discovery would immediately outshine the universe by a factor so big that we would practically stop living there and return to our real home. This leads us too:

ANY HUMAN BEING IS HOMELESS TO THE DEGREE HE DOESN'T KNOW HIS REAL, PERFECT IDENTITY

and

EVERYONE HAS HIS PERFECT, BEAUTIFUL HOME. NOT ONLY THIS, BUT ACTUALLY HE IS THIS HOME

and

A VEHICLE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TRAVEL ON THE ROAD TO YOUR PERFECT, BEATIFUL HOME IS A CAR THAT HAS AN IMAGINATION FOR A GAS PEDAL AND LOGIC FOR A BREAKING PEDAL. HURRAY!

and

THE PURPOSE OF LIVING IN THIS PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS TO HAVE FUN PLAYING VARIOUS GAMES (LIKE BEING A CHILD) AND SAFELY RETURN HOME  ONLY WHEN THE RULES OF THE MAIN GAME PERMIT IT

and

TO WIN THE MAIN GAME, COMMUNICATE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT TO INCREASE YOUR PERCEPTION, THEREBY DISSOLVING ILLUSIONS THAT DISTANCE YOU FROM YOURSELF.

and

THE WINNER IS THE ONE WHOSE PERCEPTION IS SO GOOD THAT HE CAN SEE HIMSELF FULLY. THIS AUTOMATICALLY REMOVES HIM FROM THE MAIN GAME

and

EVERYONE CAN WIN WHICH MAKES THE MAIN GAME PERFECTLY FAIR

Sorry for spurting so many beautifully sounding sentences at once (and inventing the term "main game" without introducing a proper definition, but you probably know what the main game should be), but I just couldn't stop. Actually, I had to force myself to stop. Not sure why, probably because I desired for some time to write more in this blog. By the way, writing was usually an almost traumatic experience for me and I always dreamed that one day I would love writing. Maybe it's today?

I think my car suddenly stopped working... maybe it wasn't used to such a big acceleration. Back in the game.

EDIT: MAIN GAME = LIFE. However, after some analysis I came to a conclusion that an assumption that underlies this equation is false. The equation assumes that all we have to do in life is to play a single game in this universe which I already outlined. Now, when you look at any games store, you would see there are many games you can choose. So, it is perfectly understandable that there should be many other real games, i.e., many physical universes which are governed by different rules (laws) the person with appropriately heightened awareness can choose to live and immerse in.

P.S. In the next article, I will probably try deciphering the rules of life. I already know that since everyone can win the game, the rules are so constructed that they make it perfectly fair. The article will merely start from this point.

Communication skills

I was told a few times I have poor communication skills. When it happened for the first time, I almost didn't look at the issue, assuming the person who told me this can't be true. However, the last time I heard it, I began looking at this problem. This means what I need to do is to look at communication skills. I will have to do this even when I go to communication skills training which I'm planning to do. It's better to start now. Let's try.

The most important thing about communcation skills is what they are. Communcation skills are skills regarding a communication. We all know what a skill is - it is how well a person can do something. This means that an essential ingredient of doing something well is knowing what needs to be done. The better a person communicates, the greater are his or her communication skills. He or she knows exactly what needs to be done. So the most important thing to be done about communication skills (I already know what a skill is) is to make sure I know what exactly is a communication.

I thought about a proper definition of communication and my definition would be:

AN ACT OF SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES

Notice the definition doesn't say anything about information. Information is just a building block of messages. Therefore, it is infinitely more important what we want to communicate (a message) than how we do this (information). Notice also there two messages in a defintion - a message that is being sent and a message that is going to be received. Why? The reason I included two messages in the definition is that if there was only one message, then an act of communication would be pointless - it wouldn't cause any effect and the reason to act is that we want someone or something to react, e.g., communicate according to the message that was sent. The reaction doesn't need to immediately follow the action, but in technical terms, it does. For example when I say "Turn right after 10 minutes pass from now", there would be no visible reaction until 10 minutes pass. However, if I found what I said to be incorrect, i.e., a person should turn left instead of right, I then may feel guilty for sending an incorrect message. Feeling guilty would be a rection to my message. In truth, all action is immediately followed by a reaction. In a given example, a person who I talk to reacts by listening to my message.

If we didn't communicate, we would know nothing. This why we read, write, talk and look. When we look, we communicate with the environment. Therefore, it is infinitely more important to look accurately then to read and write. In fact, both acts of reading and writing require looking, i.e, at a book or a song. I think there is a better name for this - perceiving.

The last paragraph says a correct perception is crucial for correct communication. In fact, I will now prove that it is probably the only thing required to communicate successfully.

Let's take the simplest case of communication. Any person can communicate a lot of things, depending on the ammount of things he perceives. His perception is on a gradient scale between being totally incorrect to totally correct. Therefore, the communication is affected by:

1) Things perceived by a communicator.
2) The correctness of perception of each of those things.

This means that the simplest case of communication would be if a communicator perceived only one thing. To simplify it further, let's assume he can either be totally right (perfect perception) or totally wrong (extremely faulty perception).

Imagine there is a person, a mirror and nothing else. The person faces the mirror. Assume the person doesn't know anything (has almost no knowledge) except what he needs to know answer the question: "Do I exist?". At the time of this illustration of how the simplest case of communication would look like, he doesn't know whether he exists or not. What he has to do is to look at the mirror, perceive what is there and say either: "I exist" or "I don't exist". The first answer would imply perfect communication skills, the second - extremely poor communication skills. Why? As I said, we communicate with the environment. In this example, it is a mirror.

Because the person facing the miror doesn't know anything except what he needs to know to be able perceive a mirror and answer a question according to what he perceived, he doesn't know what is a lie. Therefore, he can't choose to lie, although he can lie unconsciously when what he perceives is incorrect. This leads us too:

ALL LIES ARE CAUSED BY INCORRECT PERCEPTION

Let me expand on the subject of lies for a moment. Some people may think that they can benefit from lying. However, all action is immediately followed by reaction. What happens when we lie is that we send a false message. Then, the person who receives it will construct his messages according to this lie. He or she may recognize the message as a lie or not, but either way he will have to react to the lie. When he does, then the lie didn't work - so why telling it? When he doesn't, then an interesting thing will happen. His communication with the einvornment will be based on this lie. What this means, this person will in some way (by the way he acts) lie to us! This means two very important things:

ANY ACT OF LYING IS AN ACT OF LYING TO ONESELF

and

A PERSON WHO LIES IS A PERSON WHO IS BEING LIED TO

Let's close the subject of lies for we already discovered two very important things about it and it is not the main subject of this article. Let's look at the mirror from the example I gave. What do we see when we look at it? At first, it may seem obvious that we see ourselves. However, each mirror has some imperfectness which cause it to reflect an image at least slightly different from what is being "sent" to it. We can imagine a "hacked" version of the mirror that uses some technology to prevent the viewer from seeing himself in it. So, what the person should do is to examine the mirror and answer the question only when he knows for sure it is able to reflect what would be in his place.

What is interesting in the example of man and the mirror is that the man has to determine the truth that he wants to contain in the message, consctruct the message with this truth and then send this message. As I said, the message is infinitely more important than the information it contains. To make it crystal clear, notice that information is raw - it doesn't mean anything. Only the message, which includes the way the information can be encoded and decoded, along with information, can be meaningful. Therefore, the act of sending the message is not as important as actions that lead to a correct message.

To sum up, the correct communication skills require to:

1) Perceive correctly
2) Send the message

I will expand on this subject once more with another example. Let's say that there are two people communicating. Let's say one of them is extremely overweight but he doesn't care about his condition as much as he should. Let's call him a person A. There is also a person B. There is a following dialogue between them.

B: You are extremely overweight. You should do something with yourself.
A: I know.

Is this dialogue constructed according to what I said about correct perception? On the surface level, it may seem so. However:

1) Both persons may have different ideas of what being extremely overweight means.
2) It is not clear what the A person should do to fix his condition and this is the most important thing.

The message sent by B simply didn't contain the most important thing - the correct perception of what is wrong. It is because being overweight is not wrong by itself - it is just an effect of an incorrect diet caused by eating to much straight sugar.

We can increase the communication skills of B now, resulting in:

B: Hi! I would like to tell you about a book that may be very beneficial to you. It's title is "How too limit the intake of straight sugar". I think you will like it.
A: OK, I will read it. Thank you very much.

Do you see the difference? Here, we are encouraging A to communicate with the wealth of true information which he probably doesn't recognize as true. Otherwise, he wouldn't be in his condition. What we do is simply sending a true message, but in this case the message contains much more truth. Another difference is that we don't force A to accept our view about his condition. It is him who has to read the book and draw his own conclusions. In this chapter, I drew my own conclusions about communication skills. I plan to expand my view on this subject in a near future, also on communication skills training.

The most important thing in life

Hello,

It has been a very long time since I posted on this blog, due to various reasons, such as lack of sleep or other activities (e.g., work). I feel happy to be able to return here.

I haven't said it yet, but it is very important – the aim of this blog is to stretch my boundaries of thinking. Imagine, dear reader, the time when you were a child. If you were a bit like me (and who wasn't?), you thought that the very important things in your life were your toys – they were bought for you by your parents, you played with them, you may even have desired more of them (though I have usually been satisfied with what I had, again – for various reasons). One of the main reasons I was satisfied with the toys I had was that when I played with them, I saw no world around them. Therefore, I saw no other toys. You might laugh now, and it is great. All truth is great and this truth is the result of a logical operation in my mind, that started with another truth about me. You might think I am an honest person now. It's true for nothing is greater but the truth. However, what is the truth about you, dear reader? Do you even ask such a question? If you were a bit like me, then you sometimes experienced something impossible – the toys which were the center of your world suddenly began to lose their meaning, as if... boundaries of your little world stretched, encompassing more and more beautiful things. You might then wanted another set of toys, unless something totally unexpected happened – you lost your interest in the toys completely.

Lost interest in the toys completely? I thought so when I was younger, but is it really true? Isn't it that we all just have another sets of toys for the rest of our lives? Something so enbodied in our lives we don't even notice it's there? Let's see what conditions a toy must meet to be perfect, for only a toy which is perfect or close to it can be so embodied.

For a toy to be perfect, it must:

1) Shrink our view of the world, so that the toy appears to be the most important thing. Then, we assume that the toy is the best thing in the world (notice the confusion here: the shrinked version of the world is equivalent to the whole world in the mind of such person).

2) Give a sense of satisfaction, so that we don't want to play any other game. Because of 1), changing the game will be impossible until we recognize we are playing a game. That leads us to the third point.

3) Make impossible noticing it is a toy. In contrary, the toy appears to be the whole world.

Notice how all three points are interconnected. Those interconnections, along with the points, make a toy perfect. So is it logical to conclude that we are all playing the games in our lives? For me, it is. It is also perfectly allowable to say that the child plays a game of being a child – being a child is his perfect toy which he uses to play a game. The child doesn't know wellhe is a child, i.e., he may not be fully conscious of his childish behaviour. He or she assumes the only game he is playing is that with his physical toys which means those toys are far less perfect than his... game of life.

If being a child is a game, then also being in other times of life is a game. Therefore, it not possible to not play some game (it turns out we are all heavy gamers). The only logical conclusion is that life is a game.

Did you notice that we started to define what life is? Today (as yesterday) people often say: „life is unfair”, „life is difficult”. How many people on the street do you meet whose faces are lit up by a completely different, much more positive thought, e.g. „life is wonderful”? Go outside and see how many eyes shine because of this thought. I don't see many. Life is really what me make it.

Does it really say what life IS? Well, no. It is because a language is much more often used to describe day to day, mundane activities and thoughts than much deeper subjects, such as that which we are discussing. In the case of latter, the language becomes more and more difficult to avoid confusion and imprecise statements. What we just said about the life really means: „we decide the outcome of life”.

Imagine that you have a desk in front of you and are sitting comfortably on your chair. There may even be a night lamp turned on. On the desk, there are two true statements:

„Life is really what we make it”

and

„We decide the outcome of life”

The second statement is much more true as it avoids the problems with the language we discussed in the previous paragraph. The first statement, however, shows that we often trick ourselves into skipping the definition of life, as if life was so apparent it didn't need any definition. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to act all the time and associate the outcome of our actions with the life itself. It is also unfair for there are people whose outcome of lives are much better than our outcome. The widely known definitions of life by today's science, are indeed the results of such omissions. Look at some of those definitions of life supported by today's science:

„the period from birth to death” while simple, doesn't explain anything

„the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body” not only is not simple, but doesn't explain anything too

„a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings” very complicated. Also notice „principle or force” which are completely different things. There is also no apparent reason to conclude that life is a force. „Principle” also doesn't explain anything.

We can read all 20 definitions of life in Merriam Webster dictionary and... return to our previous life which means we didn't really learn the most important thing – what it is.

To really define a life, let's return to our most thuthful statement about it:

„We decide the outcome of life”

If this is true (try finding evidence pointing to contrary, I cannot), this means that life is a greatest power in the universe. Because it decides, it cannot be decided. Therefore, it is immortal because nothing can decide for it to die. The inability to decide anything about life by anything except the life itself leads us to conclusion that the creation of the universe was a decision made by life.

This leads to the true definition of life:

AN IMMORTAL SOURCE OF EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE UNIVERSE

However, if life is a source of everything, then life itself must be... nothing. Yes, you read it correctly. Otherwise, life would have to create itself which is illogical, therefore impossible. When I think about it, it is mind blowing because it means that nothing is the source of everything. It also is crystal clear when you see that you can't destroy nothing – nothing always has been and will alway s be. Therefore, nothing (life) has the power over everything that is.

Let's look further. The title of this article is „The most important thing life”. The most important thing in life is life itself (ha, try to refute this one, hint: „set theory”). Because life is nothing, this means that the most important thing in life is nothing and the most important thing in nothing is nothing. If this sound counterintuitive it is because of the already mentioned inadequacy of the language that becomes the more apparent, the more important subject it is applied to. When humans say about nothing, they really mean there is something but they don't really see it. Here, we are talking about real nothingness. Although logical, saying that the most important thing in life is nothing is not very satisfying, therefore we have to look at the issue from a different angle. Let's try.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS THE KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES FROM UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT IS.

This is a statement that I have discovered a few seconds before writing it. Try disproving it, if you can. Bear in mind you would have to either find an error in my reasoning, which is possible (as I said, I'm stretching the boundaries of my thinking meaning I have not reached them yet) or supply a totally different reasoning (which seems harder for me, but may not be such for you, depending on your boundaries).

Let's see again. There comes an immense wisdom from knowing we are an immortal source of everything. As I said, this implicates the total power over everything. The total power means a complete wisdom for no one can be wiser than the person who has the power over everything (I mean real power, not assumed power such as in the case of politicians who trick people into thinking they have power, whereas they sometimes don't even know how to use a computer). This leads us too:

WE ARE THE SMARTEST BEINGS EVER POSSIBLE

You really are smarter than you have ever thought. Just to make it clear, imagine an actor who is playing a stupid blonde so perfectly he forgets who he really is. People watch movies that show other people making mistakes. An example would be a soap opera where you probably see people making a lot mistakes in their lives (I haven't really watched any, sorry). Based on those mistakes, the story continues. The soap opera would be boring if every actor played a perfectly smart individual. There would be no drama, no big emotions, no interested viewers, etc. Because living beings (humans among them) want the life to be interesting, fun, emotional, etc., they use their power over everything to decide they can be imperfect. This comes straight from the statement I already wrote: „we decide the outcome of life”.

You, however, have the power over everything, including discovering your real perfectness and this is why I wrote this article.

I think I will try stretching my boundaries of thinkning on the subject of life later on for nothing is more important in life than life itself.