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Understanding Understanding (Yes, You Read That Correctly)

How do you know you actually understand anything?

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Who are you?

You might be a writer or someone who suffers from anxiety or depression; you might be a soldier, or maybe even a cat.

Regardless, this is quite a simple question it may seem, yet in order to truly answer this question, one must understand the entire universe.

In order to understand the entire universe one has to understand their own universe.

There’s a difference between understanding nothing and not understanding anything. It is a very subtle difference. To understand nothing is to understand everything. To not understand anything is to not understand.

This is the simplest understanding, which makes it the hardest. It is the hardest thing to understand because the nature of its existence gives it that difficulty. Understanding this is to understand where religions come from, to understand why we have science.

Understanding this is to be able to “understand” everything. Why am I not teaching you this wonderful understanding?

Well, as it turns out, this understanding cannot be taught; teaching it makes it much harder to learn, especially if you know you are being taught it.

There’s actually a lot to this. Buddha tried to teach this; Jesus tried to teach this; Confucius tried to teach this; Laozi tried to teach this.

Any great thinker, philosopher, or prophet directly touched on this thing. Buddha called it the Dharma, Jesus calls it love, Confucius had his filial piety and benevolence, and Laozi had the Way of Taoism.

Probably at the Jesus part people lose interest, especially in the West, claiming that I don’t understand. But that causes us to make no progress, instead, keep going. The farther you go, the more you realize that it’s all the same and that is why it’s so different.

Understanding this is sort of like an onion. It has layers like an onion, like Shrek. People get these perceptions, that things are a certain way, then they move on seeing things as that way.

Yet in reality nothing is permanent, things are constantly changing. Since this is the case, we must constantly check how we look at things. This means though we have to look at how we look at things.

How do we look at how we look at things? We bear witness to our thinking, not thinking about our thinking, but letting ourselves think.

In a society that becomes more and more rushed, with more and more people not being able to focus on something, we become more and more endangered.

We will soon be to a point where we are simply incapable of understanding what we must understand.

It is essentially the duty of every human being to understand that they are in fact a human being. That each individual is responsible for their own actions and how they treat the rest of society.

There’s these two great dudes who really sum this all up. Bill S. Preston Esq. and “Ted” Theodore Logan of the famous Rock band, the Wyld Stallyns. They say, “Be excellent to each other, and Party on, Dude.”

It might not be obvious as to how this relates to the initial question.

However, who we must wisely decide to be is one who is excellent to others. The Golden Rule goes something like: Be excellent unto others as you would have them be excellent unto you. I might have messed it up a little, but you get the point.

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