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[tyvoq]

Yes, there is an absolute truth. It's all happening right in front of us. The problem is, no human mind can ever comprehend it. The brain is a survival organ. It filters information the same way your kidneys filter your blood. Not only is it not complex enough to understand truth, it can't even find a language or conduit through which to begin

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channelling alan watts

[opiejuan]

the only thing anyone could ever do with words is point toward truth, and keep pointing. that's what the buddha did, what all the zen masters were about. they knew you couldn't put truth in words, and the best of the mystics, in approaching all things, never try in the end, that is, they never approached or even witnessed any thing with personal intent.

i'm having a bit of difficulty accepting the idea that the brain isn't complex enough to understand truth just because it can't put it into language. (remember, we apparantly use less than %15, at least consciously, according to "experts.") the problem isn't with the brain or the mind, but in the fallibility of words, which has the unfortunate nature of division. definition is division, separation, but only in your mind. putting things into words (which, in reality, has no effect at all upon the "thing" you're trying to describe) is labelling parts of the whole, and nothing more. just because the hand is not a whole person doesn't mean we should disregard the health of the hand. in fact, all things within the system are as inextricably tied to the whole as the hand is to the human. remove the hand and the system is irrevocably altered. likewise with everything.

recommended reading: alan watts' the wisdom of insecurity - quick and mindblowing.

oh, my point...

[opiejuan]

no, there's no point in writing down the warped glimpse, unless you're really into poetry, i guess. but i think people do comprehend it all the time, though mainly in those glimpses you mentioned, but that's different from "understanding."

if you're interested, i just happened to post bodhidharma's explanation of what he called "beholding the mind" as it relates specifically to understanding.