Is the Universe a Symbol?

[Preetom]

''Reality is not what it appears to be.''

Getting blown over by this fact over and over again recently. There is nothing objective about any appearance.

A thing can only appear as something it is not. It can appear as literally anything, except for what it really is. Does that ring some bell? This is the very definition of Symbol. A symbol is anything but the thing it represents.

I remember reading a book that said it nicely. We're living in a hallucination like the movie Matrix. But the difference is, there is no higher, ultimate, objective Reality waiting out there somewhere. Probably this is why Science's search for objective Truth will be a failed project even after a million years. 

If you're chasing for Santa Clause for a million years, how close will you get to finding him?

When it really hits you, you slowly lose the fascination with objective experiences. Attention relaxes and drops into it's source. You feel the non objective experience of Being, which is all there is to your current experience.

When you probe a little deeper...Gone as if never existed!

Edited September 14, 2018 by Preetom

[tsuki]

6 hours ago, Preetom said:

There is nothing objective about any appearance.

Is that an objective, or a subjective statement though?
Perhaps, the only Absolute can be recognized as absolute relativity.

[Preetom]

24 minutes ago, tsuki said:

Perhaps, the only Absolute can be recognized as absolute relativity.

Yes if you're using language. The furthest language can describe the Absolute is through negations. But negations never say what it is.

But direct being doesn't have to have that limitation.

[calibrate]

yep, everything is a symbol for Being

that indefinable essence. the great paradox

and yet all these ruminations are meaningless