The Happiness Podcast 39 - Is There Any Way to Know You Are In Touch With Reality?
Feb 4, 2020
A spicy exploration of whether reality can be known directly. Listeners are invited to spot when perception resists every neat formula. The talk stresses that guides can point out the unreal but cannot deliver the real. It urges stepping alone into the unknown and describes the strange mix of terror and freedom that follows.
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Reality Defies All Formulas
- Reality cannot be captured by any formula or words and shows itself when perception refuses to fit preexisting concepts.
- Anthony de Mello emphasizes that genuine perception is wordless and resists being boxed by others' or your own formulas.
Walk Alone Away From Formulas
- Teachers can only point out what is unreal and destroy formulas, they cannot hand you Reality or its truth.
- Anthony de Mello directs listeners to abandon reliance on guides and to walk alone to discover reality for themselves.
Solitude Is Freedom From Concepts
- Walking away from all formulas creates an 'awesome solitude' that is not social isolation but freedom from conceptual protection.
- Anthony de Mello calls this solitude silence, the state in which true seeing becomes possible.