When a candidate or for that matter when anyone speaks have you ever found yourself asking; what are they actually saying?
You can hear the words coming out but all too often we’re not sure what any of it means.
What is the truth?
Is it the words someone’s mouth has formed or is it the ears that hear those words? Words can so often be lacking in communicating the real or deeper truth contained within them. In fact only seven percent of all communication is actually the words spoken. None the less that can be a very important seven percent!
It is always prudent to remember that there is no way that the mouth that speaks the words can guarantee that the words the ears hear are the same ones that were spoken.
If an individual ‘hates’ Bush or for that matter any other candidate, does it matter what that candidate says? Or will it always be heard through the filter of ‘hate’?
Some will tell you that ‘truth’ is spoken from the heart and although that is true, even words from that heart cannot pierce the walls of ignorance. Because even though ignorance has ears, its ears are ornamental and deaf to anything but the ‘truth’ the ignorant claims as reality.
What are lies?
Lies are the things we tell ourselves or others that cause pain; however they can also be the things we use to falsely protect ourselves or others.Maybe one of the saddest of lies is the lie between those who love each other. A lie for whatever reason that leaves one feeling betrayed is a lie that runs deep.
The only thing more saddening is the secondhand lie, a lie that is made up based on conclusions that don’t make sense in any other context than a sound byte. The second hand lie is the lie that accuses in the shadows and runs in the background like a thief in the night where it both steals trust and the opportunity for truth.
The secondhand lie makes fact of innuendo and often rips apart those who love each other. The secondhand lie is designed to undermine not only the accused but also those who believed in the accused.
There is in fact only one way to know the truth from a lie… it is to sit in front of the other speaking your truth with an open heart, and just as importantly to hear with ears connected to an equally open heart.
Sadly this is not possible, nor desired by those who busily and often unconsciously protect their ego with the knife of innuendo. People who truly care about each other communicate by speaking and listening with open hearts.
Those who will not do so think that they are protecting themselves from pain, while in fact all they do in the long run is inflict pain upon themselves as much as on others.
The highest agenda of the ego-mind is the need to be right and the ego-mind will sacrifice the truth and even love to protect its’ self.
When Obama, Clinton, McCain, Wright, Bush or even a friend speaks, pay attention not just to what you hear but also the context of what is being spoken. Words without context can be made to mean anything the editor decides, even if the sound byte editor is not in the studio but within your own ego-mind.
It is said that a fanatic will “die for a lie”: But is that really true or is it that they are willing to die for the truth they have made out of a lie?
Truth and Lies are held in the fine line not between right and wrong but instead between what is spoken and what is heard. Many great teachers have left us and in their passing the words they spoke from their hearts have been interpreted by the minds of others and as a result many beautiful truths have become distorted lies that are used for one person or group to control, judge or reject another.
We are not victims of the lies of others; we victimize ourselves when we refuse to understand that each man and each woman stand on the edge of the ground they know as their own truth. Because to paraphrase, (This is what I heard, it’s not necessarily what was said) what Pastor Jeremy Wright said in a press conference on April 28th 2008, “both the captor and the captive are contained and restricted by the same system and neither are free”.
In every moment that ground of ‘truth’ is crumbling underneath the pressure of those who cling to the need to be right. Be careful how you judge your candidate, your friend, enemy, or anyone you meet. For as the Native American saying goes; unless you have walked a mile in his moccasins do not presume to know why anyone says or does anything.
It has been said that in all lies the truth can be found, but is it not also true that in all truth lies can be found, if that’s what you are looking for?
All meaning is subjective and each one of us has an ego-mind that holds very little claim to its own subjective meaning, because our ego-mind claims the subjective as the ‘truth’ it will both live and die for. The question returns; ‘will you die for a lie’? And maybe an even deeper question is: What will you kill with the subjective meaning you call the truth?
I leave you this time with the words of Paul Simon in the 1968 song, The Boxer: “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
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