You are a LIAR
Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers were already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human. First they told us what were are – a boy or a girl – then the told us who we are, and who we should or shouldn’t be. They taught us how to be a man or how to be a woman. They told us to be a proper woman, a decent woman, a strong man, a brave man. They gave us a name, and they told us the role we would play in their story. They prepared us to live in the human jungle, to compete with one another, to impose our will, to fight against our own kind. They filled us with knowledge, and ofcourse we believed them.
From the storytellers around us, we learned how to create our own story. By exploring the story that we create, I discovered that the story has a voice. You can call it ‘thinking’ if you want. I call it the ‘voice of knowledge’ because its telling you everything you know. It’s always trying to make sense out of everything. That voice is always there. It never stops. It’s not even real, but you hear it. You can say, “Well it’s me. I’m the one who’s talking.” But if you are the voice that is talking, then who is listening?
The voice of knowledge can also be called the liar who lives in your head. The liar speaks in your language, but you spirit, the truth has no language. You just know the truth; you feel it. The voice of your spirit tries to come out, but the voice of the liar is stronger and louder and it hooks your attention almost all of the time. You hear the voice and what it is telling you? “Look at you. Who do you think you are? You will never make it. You aren’t smart enough. Why should I try? Nobody understands me. How can I be happy when millions of people are dying of starvation?”
That voice is usually lying because it’s the voice of what you have learned, and you have learned so many lies, mainly about yourself. The voice of knowledge can come from your own head, or it can come from people around you, but your emotional reaction to that voice is telling you, “I am being abused.”
Every time we judge ourselves, find ourselves guilty, punish ourselves, it’s because the voice in our head is telling us lies. Every time we have a conflict with our parents, or our beloved, it’s because we believe in lies, and they believe in them, too.
But it’s not just that. When we believe in lies, we cant see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth! For example, we believe that we know what we are. When get angry we say, “Oh that’s the way I am.” When we get jealous. “Oh that’s the way I am.” But is that true? I am not sure about that.
I used to make the assumption that I was the one who said all those things that I didn’t want to say. It was a big surprise when I discovered that it was not me; it was the way I learned to be. And I practiced and practiced until I mastered that performance.
Two thousand years ago on of the greatest masters said, “And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Free from what? From the storyteller who lives in your head and talks to you all the time. When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace. If you follow two rules, all the lies that come from the voice of knowledge won’t survive your skepticism will simply disappear.
Rule one: Don’t believe yourself (Don’t take that as “Don’t believe IN yourself”). When you hear the voice in your head, don’t take it personally. You know that it’s usually lying to you. Lies can only survive if you believe them. If you don’t believe your own lies, you can make better choices based on the truth.
Rule two: Don’t believe in anybody else. When people talk, you have no idea if what they are saying is coming from their heart or from the liar the lives in their head. Listen because the communication can be wonderful.
You can change your life refusing to believe your own lies. Start with the main lies that limit the expression of your happiness and your love. If you take your faith away from the lies, they lose their power over you. If you stop believing in lies, your whole life changes just like magic. You will be free of fear, drama, and conflict. This is the absolute truth.
You betrayed my trust but in someway, it worked wonders for me. I realized what I wrote above and I wont come back at you and strike with vengeance. It was a learning experience and I gained a lot of knowledge about myself and my upbringing. It encompasses the endearing quality I harboured sometime back. Now I am a changed person. Very careful before each move and each word I say. Trying hard to stay like this, but the liar inside me wont die as easily but I will make sure it dies one day and that will be a day when, despite all your efforts to drown me, I will come out as the winner. You will still be where you are and hopefully gain something by tampering with my numbers. But there will be a day, you will realize how big a fool you were to have done that.
From the storytellers around us, we learned how to create our own story. By exploring the story that we create, I discovered that the story has a voice. You can call it ‘thinking’ if you want. I call it the ‘voice of knowledge’ because its telling you everything you know. It’s always trying to make sense out of everything. That voice is always there. It never stops. It’s not even real, but you hear it. You can say, “Well it’s me. I’m the one who’s talking.” But if you are the voice that is talking, then who is listening?
The voice of knowledge can also be called the liar who lives in your head. The liar speaks in your language, but you spirit, the truth has no language. You just know the truth; you feel it. The voice of your spirit tries to come out, but the voice of the liar is stronger and louder and it hooks your attention almost all of the time. You hear the voice and what it is telling you? “Look at you. Who do you think you are? You will never make it. You aren’t smart enough. Why should I try? Nobody understands me. How can I be happy when millions of people are dying of starvation?”
That voice is usually lying because it’s the voice of what you have learned, and you have learned so many lies, mainly about yourself. The voice of knowledge can come from your own head, or it can come from people around you, but your emotional reaction to that voice is telling you, “I am being abused.”
Every time we judge ourselves, find ourselves guilty, punish ourselves, it’s because the voice in our head is telling us lies. Every time we have a conflict with our parents, or our beloved, it’s because we believe in lies, and they believe in them, too.
But it’s not just that. When we believe in lies, we cant see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth! For example, we believe that we know what we are. When get angry we say, “Oh that’s the way I am.” When we get jealous. “Oh that’s the way I am.” But is that true? I am not sure about that.
I used to make the assumption that I was the one who said all those things that I didn’t want to say. It was a big surprise when I discovered that it was not me; it was the way I learned to be. And I practiced and practiced until I mastered that performance.
Two thousand years ago on of the greatest masters said, “And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Free from what? From the storyteller who lives in your head and talks to you all the time. When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace. If you follow two rules, all the lies that come from the voice of knowledge won’t survive your skepticism will simply disappear.
Rule one: Don’t believe yourself (Don’t take that as “Don’t believe IN yourself”). When you hear the voice in your head, don’t take it personally. You know that it’s usually lying to you. Lies can only survive if you believe them. If you don’t believe your own lies, you can make better choices based on the truth.
Rule two: Don’t believe in anybody else. When people talk, you have no idea if what they are saying is coming from their heart or from the liar the lives in their head. Listen because the communication can be wonderful.
You can change your life refusing to believe your own lies. Start with the main lies that limit the expression of your happiness and your love. If you take your faith away from the lies, they lose their power over you. If you stop believing in lies, your whole life changes just like magic. You will be free of fear, drama, and conflict. This is the absolute truth.
You betrayed my trust but in someway, it worked wonders for me. I realized what I wrote above and I wont come back at you and strike with vengeance. It was a learning experience and I gained a lot of knowledge about myself and my upbringing. It encompasses the endearing quality I harboured sometime back. Now I am a changed person. Very careful before each move and each word I say. Trying hard to stay like this, but the liar inside me wont die as easily but I will make sure it dies one day and that will be a day when, despite all your efforts to drown me, I will come out as the winner. You will still be where you are and hopefully gain something by tampering with my numbers. But there will be a day, you will realize how big a fool you were to have done that.
posted by Blunt at 3/20/2006 05:47:00 AM
3 Comments:
All these encompass subtle realisations on the path. I have begun to realise that, the more one distinguishes himself/herself from others, i.e., breeds differentiation, the more engulfed will he/she be in dissimulations and lies. Been paying thought to the saying of greats which i interpret as: Once you realise yourself, boundaries are automatically shattered and everyone is one and the same and the unchanging. Hope this is not stereotyped for some hip-hop spiritual bullshit which most people today are inclined to believe.
Nice penning of muse...
It is obviously not stereotyped...and even if it is for some people, I didn't think of it at all while writing this.
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