I was thinking today about how we view people. It's true that we see others 'subjectively'; that is, through the "filter" of our own lives and experiences, because there is no "objective" viewpoint. We see everything with eyes of other thoughts.
However, I think about people we love. Those wonderful yet flawed people, that we still see with eyes of love. They may do something silly, or downright stupid (ie: causing harm to themselves and/or others), yet we still love them. Why is that? . . . could we actually have a view into the goodness in their soul and spirit, where our love can see past the layers of behaviors, down to their 'universal love' core?
The Buddhists call this "seeing everyone as the Buddha" (Buddha being the enlightened one, so seeing everyone as the Buddha means that we are seeing who they can become), and the Christians talk about seeing everyone as becoming like Christ. Either way, this is a spiritual question about the core of a human which transcends the physical (which passes away), the emotional (batted-about like the winds), or mental (since thoughts aren't real -- they are simply thoughts).
In other words, do we have a conduit into the true goodness of those we love, or are we simply blinded by that which we want to see in them?
Your humble narrator
- Lauren
- Within the last few years I have found great joy in the connection of the physical (the body), the mind (the mental/emotional), and the spirit (the lifeforce within and outside of us). All these aspects stir the artist inside of me, and I seek to help others grow as I grow with them. The world is amazing, funny, poignant, and quite cool...