Inquiry, self knowing, mirror of relationship

[Faceless]

SOMETHING WE SHOULD ALL BE AWARE OF 

 

 

 Can you know another and yourself according to past memory, knowledge, and experiences? If we are in a constant state of change can we approach this dynamic movement with the images that we have formed about ourselves and one another? Or should we not understand how approaching self learning with the accumulation of the past will distort what is actual in that observation and learning? This self if you look very closely will alter for its own security what it observers. Do we see this fact? 

 

 So I create an image about myself which is according to the past and I act according to that. Self knowing is surly not merely the accumulation of knowledge about ones self  and acting on that knowledge is it?  Can we be aware of all that is happening with complete attention to the movement of the self. Watching this compulsion to act according to past memory, knowledge, and experience. Wouldn’t this be self learning? 

 

 We try to know ourselves according to philosophers, analyst, psychologist and so on. So generally we are learning about ourselves through others. Do you guys see this? To know myself means I have to observe myself in relationship with others. Relationship acts as a mirror in which I see myself actually as I am. If we manipulate what that mirror reflects back then is that reflection actual? Isn’t this an attempt to bring about security psychologically, and therefore an illusion. So can we be aware without making any choice in what we want the mirror to reflect back to us? Which means being aware if we are projecting an image or not. 

 

 If we are constantly approaching that mirror “relationship”with that desired image gathered by the me being the response to memory, knowledge, and experience, are we not creating perpetual illusions? If the me is approaching that mirror, isn’t all movements from ‘the me’ contributing movements of illusion and therefore conflict.  

 

So can we look at our reactions in relationship with others? Can we look in that mirror without choice? Is it not clear that if there is choice in that observation, there then follows illusion and deception? Can we look in the mirror without the movement of division between the the controller and the attempt to control? Do we see that the controller is the controlled? 

 

 Something we should constantly be aware of friends??

Edited February 2, 2018 by Faceless