Confusion

If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.
I’m not taking this lying down.
Solid as a rock.
There is only one truth.
If you don’t bend you’ll break.
Change is inevitable.
Nothing lasts forever.

Is there more confusion in a solid permanent truth, or a fluid kind of truth where there is no right or wrong?

Confusion seems to be the issue.

Confusion comes from comparing the light to it’s source.

Please let me try at an explanation.

If I think that the world is round, then I am confused.

The world is round, but it is also not round. The world is many, many things. We are the world and also the world is us. It is like this with everything.

So is there no right or wrong?

A question asked is also part of the answer. There is no answer without a question.

So if I give an answer, then it will imply a question?

Yes! That is where the confusion comes in. When there is a solid answer there is always confusion because there are really no solid answers. More importantly for examination purposes there are really no solid questions.

So I shouldn’t ask any questions?

Questions work well in this world for the purpose of getting things done. Answers do too! Right and wrong works well also. Just don’t let the idea that everything is such and such a way so as to cause confusion.

Even in this world of getting things done it may be helpful to let go of the idea that things work a certain way in order to invent a new way to make things work.

Our lives are like that also. We are always reinventing ourselves even if we don’t see it.

It’s like looking in a mirror. If we look in the mirror regularly we don’t see many changes in our reflection. However if we look at an old picture of ourselves, it is easy to see the changes.

That’s not what I wanted to hear.

Don’t worry about changes! That’s all that there is! Everything has always changed and always will. The thing to guard against is confusion. Confusion can be debilitating if it is dwelled upon.

Confusion is the worry of the mind. It is the worry that things aren’t a certain way. NOTHING IS A CERTAIN WAY! NOTHING!

So do what you always did. Ask questions. Get answers. This is a kind of paradox. Just don’t get stuck. Don’t get stuck on the questions. Don’t get stuck on the answers.

Confusion is actually okay, and really is the way to the truth. There is an old Japanese saying that is written on the entrance of some Japanese temples. There are two fierce statues that guard the temple entrance. Their names are Paradox and Confusion. The truth can only be seen through the eyes of Paradox and Confusion.

Paradox is good. Confusion is good. This is the only way to see the truth.

When a person tries to put their finger on a particular object, the atoms in the object have already changed positions by the time we can put our finger on it. The object has already changed.

If we look at the stars, we will see light that left them many millions of years before.

It is in this way that the light is not the sun and the sun is not the light, or as the ancients said “a finger pointing to the moon, is not the moon”.

Paradox is good. Confusion is good. This is the only way to see the truth.