What truths do YOU hold to be self-evident?

[Buddha Dharma]

I'm not asking about dogmatic premises of one's faith necessarily when I ask this. I'm talking about stuff like how you might individually view something like love or the nature of ethics.

Put another way: what are some of the things you see in life? You look at the world, and what do you see?

I'll start with one of my own for example. I hold the following to be self-evident based on experiencing life from where I stand:

Life is full of enough natural paradoxes to call just about all human perception and methods into question.

Why do I say this? Because we encounter things in everyday life that are more than our senses and basic grasp convey.

The world appears to us walking, if we knew no better- flat and spread out.

Things appear bigger inside than they do outside.

One can envision seemingly imaginary things and can create worlds the mind internalizes like it does this world.

Therefore, a truth I hold as self-evident about life is that it is full of paradox that defies human convention.

How about you? Lay something on me!

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I'm not asking about dogmatic premises of one's faith necessarily when I ask this. I'm talking about stuff like how you might individually view something like love or the nature of ethics.

Put another way: what are some of the things you see in life? You look at the world, and what do you see?

I'll start with one of my own for example. I hold the following to be self-evident based on experiencing life from where I stand:

Life is full of enough natural paradoxes to call just about all human perception and methods into question.

Why do I say this? Because we encounter things in everyday life that are more than our senses and basic grasp convey.

The world appears to us walking, if we knew no better- flat and spread out.

Things appear bigger inside than they do outside.

One can envision seemingly imaginary things and can create worlds the mind internalizes like it does this world.

Therefore, a truth I hold as self-evident about life is that it is full of paradox that defies human convention.

How about you? Lay something on me!

Do you see your views apart from The Dharma?

Id say I hold values: Expression, security, freedom of mind and body, and contributing to society in meaninful work cornerstones of my being. With these in mind, I feel when we have the ability to express ourselves via our language, culture, religion, hobby, family, and identity etc our lives would be more wholesome and positive.

I see people having a yearning to be who they are without societal limitations based on money etc.

While I dont see life bigger than myself, I do see life with the mind and in the eyes of an artist.

 

[Buddha Dharma]

Do you see your views apart from The Dharma?

Not typically, but I wouldn't want to imply all Buddhists think as I do. Plus it appears to me that everyone holds ideas to some degree outside of their chosen ideology. It might be the nature of the beast.

 

[roger1440]

My girl friend should stay out of the kitchen.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Interesting thread ...

If things were self-evident there wouldn't be so much difference in opinions

All I am really sure of is that certain thoughts, words and deeds lead to happiness while others lead to suffering.

So I make a concerted effort to be mindful and careful.

Is that the sort of answer you were looking for?

Cheers!

 

[sun rise]

You look at the world, and what do you see?

I see the dying of an age with forces that would resist that death fighting an all out but ultimately futile attempt to stop a "new order of the ages" from continuing to be born.

I see the new quietly being born, hardly noticeable except to those who are closely watching it happen.

 

[osgart]

I hold it true that qualities of character exist. That there is virtue, as well as vice. All else is subject to questioning.

My biggest belief is that there is natural intelligence in nature, that there is logic to it, as well as indifference.

Life is more of a mystery than people say it is.

I look at the world and I see the great struggle, bitterness and hostility vs. Compassion and understanding.

I also see that most religions fail in abysmal ways for a great many things. Delusions can run deep in society, but let us not compromise freedom of speech, and total respect for human rights.

Civil discourse is the way to handle differences of conviction.

The number one dangers in society come from people whom are certain they have all the answers to every question, or that they have sufficient reason to oppress others, demanding conformity.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

What truths do YOU hold to be self-evident?

New Zealand sux, and armoured corps soldiers are the best.

 

[Mock Turtle]

What truths do YOU hold to be self-evident?

That humans are very prone to deception, illogical thinking, fallacious reasoning, and wishful thinking. I can't remember the specific case, but there was an example of this recently, where a certain animal species is not deceived by a particular event when a human would be. We know of course that our visual systems are constantly being fooled by all sorts of visual illusions and apparently so is our brain when it comes to estimating things or putting them into perspective. We seem to do this quite commonly, expecting greater or lesser numbers in various cases, and this is usually because we are unable to look at things dispassionately and tend to hold on to some kind of bias with regards the specific thing. The estimates for the amount of crime in various areas is commonly overestimated, as are the numbers of immigrants, for example.

Hence, that is the obvious truth that I find self-evident - that we mostly just can't tell truth from fiction, most of the time.

 

[Nakosis]

I'm not asking about dogmatic premises of one's faith necessarily when I ask this. I'm talking about stuff like how you might individually view something like love or the nature of ethics.

Put another way: what are some of the things you see in life? You look at the world, and what do you see?

I'll start with one of my own for example. I hold the following to be self-evident based on experiencing life from where I stand:

Life is full of enough natural paradoxes to call just about all human perception and methods into question.

Why do I say this? Because we encounter things in everyday life that are more than our senses and basic grasp convey.

The world appears to us walking, if we knew no better- flat and spread out.

Things appear bigger inside than they do outside.

One can envision seemingly imaginary things and can create worlds the mind internalizes like it does this world.

Therefore, a truth I hold as self-evident about life is that it is full of paradox that defies human convention.

How about you? Lay something on me!

I exist, everything else is up for questioning.

I accept reality as it seems to present itself but knowing how tricky one's mind can be, I have trust issues.

What really sucks it the how of existing. The mechanics of it. How I am able to experience existing.

I take it as self-evident but the how is a real pisser.

 

[Buddha Dharma]

I hold that the experience of the self sense in people is Neti-Neti.

I don't necessarily mean by this only that the self sense reflects Ultimate Reality, and yet doesn't reflect it. I also mean the self sense reflects the many external factors internalized inward by the mind, so that any action we make is very likely tied with the external influence.

That consciousness is in fact multi-faceted, I keep in the forefront as fact.