WHO IS THE MASTER WHO MAKES THE GRASS GREEN?

My last post contained this sentence: "We know we're right, but can we blame them for being ignorant?"

I don't think I put enough emphasis on this.

Think about this: do you think a deep sea creature realizes that there is a WORLD of information they know nothing about? I doubt it. Thoughts that complexes most likely don't even enter into their minds. They are simply surviving. We as humans, on the other hand, carry the burden of this giant brain of ours. We have the capacity to answer SO MANY THINGS...and we think that the universe MUST be comprehensible to our minds.

Much like our lives are far too complex for a fish to understand, the universe is much too complex for us to understand.

Reality is something that exists whether you're here or not. But the reality YOU PERCEIVE only exists if YOU exist. And what is reality without perception? The age-old question about the tree in the woods. It still baffles me.

Robert Anton Wilson talks about our connection with the world around us. About how difficult it seems to reach this state of "nirvana", when you suddenly are aware of your "one-ness" with the world around you. But really, we are engaging in this one-ness at ALL TIMES. He talks about the Buddhist search for the "Master who makes the grass green". When you realize that without the grass, there would be no green...and also without YOUR EYES, there would be no green, then it becomes quite a bit easier. You see, the green-ness is a "transaction" between you and the grass. The moment you close your eyes, the green goes away...even though you and the grass both still exist. And that's just ONE FACET of ONE SENSE that we have.

Here's the truth: the grass isn't green at all. The grass simply IS. "Green" is something WE GIVE IT. And who knows what green really is? What if I stole your eyeballs and substituted them for my own, and suddenly I realized that through YOUR eyes, things that look green to me now look pink? How could we ever know without making such an exchange? We know that dogs don't see pigments the way humans do. But does one human eye see exactly what another human eye sees?

We use all kinds of instruments to perceive. But perhaps the most over-looked is the instrument of oneself. You can't describe the world around you without FIRST describing the instrument used to examine the data. Well, you are the instrument. And reality only exists because you are creating it with your own mind, using data that you input into your brain through these channels, or "senses". Our brain processes all this information in a very complex, yet instant, way...and when it's done, the result is the world around you. Uniquely yours and nobody else's.

This isn't to demean human existence into a mathematical formula, or a series of chemical reactions. Quite the contrary. I think this realization makes the universe a lot more interesting and full of wonder than is even possible to imagine. I think that if the general population simply went about their lives with this understanding in their minds, society would gradually move in the direction of an enlightened public...without much coercive action.

This is what I hope, anyway.