Reality vs. Reality

The following quote from the Matrix Philosophy gave me pause so I connected it to the importance of training thus provide it here for your consideration.

"In 'reality', we make judgments about people and situations without having full information all the time - we must do this just to be practical, since the time it would take to gather all the information we assume would be prohibitive to living our lives. We fill in the gaps of knowledge with guesses and prejudices of our own. Thus, reality may not be as 'real' as we tend to think of it, since we do a fair amount of construction on our own."

You may want to read it several times as it states we tend to gloss over and insert from our own experiences. Thus my reference to training. "Focus," is so important especially when confronted with a self-protection situation. The choices we make as to action when confronted can determine outcome. Outcome could be productive or destructive simply from the "gaps of knowledge" we encounter not to forget the natural tendency to "insert" our own guesses and prejudices as collected from our experience in life.

Wars have begun for simple misunderstandings. Since we now realize that our "natural tendency" is to do this behavior then we must train ourselves to "focus" completely. This does not mean we do this in everything for the statements says this is not entirely possible but when it counts the most we can "consciously focus" or observation, "seeing" and "hearing" on that particular subject, i.e. actively listen with intent, etc.

Maybe if we in this world did more of this on such important issues we would not have to go to war or have physical destructive contacts.

This goes back to the "implications" of the gokui and the book of changes where we need to learn as much as we can about others, their customs, etc. so that we have the "full skinny" before making judgements.

Sound good to you?