Wisdom For Life

UNDERSTANDING TRUTH & REALITY:

Wellness begins on this special platform, “” UNDERSTANDING TRUTH & REALITY”. For this reason, I will talk a bit more about this critical life discourse. There is a short special audio at the end open and listen to it.

When people understand a thing, a situation; its cause, what it is all about and its causal effects they will not doubt it. Infect they will either accept it, reject it or learn to live buy it if it is something beyond their control. They will also be able to explain and teach others about it.

 However, if they do not understand a thing or a situation they will live in doubt of it and in many cases to the disadvantage or even peril of their lives.

What does understanding do?

Understanding entails being able to draw advantages and or disadvantages over something. Understanding gives power to knowledge.

Understanding builds a reality framework in the person of the situation at hand.

Reality framework builds faith and strong belief.

Faith and strong belief build hope.

Yet, how does understanding come about?

Understanding comes by experience-When you go through the waters you can better tell others how deep and cold the river is.

Learning from other sources -You can learn and understand from other formal sources

Researching- Seeking the truth from formal sources

Serendipity- In the course of life you can come across discoveries that help you learn or understand situations in life.

Why is understanding important

Understanding gives power to knowledge

Understanding build a vivid frame work of reality upon which to build faith, belief and zeal.

Anything that matters in life is worth understanding because it will often impact on one’s life.

Examples to help us to understand this issue better.

1 Understanding the importance of marriage. People who understand marriages have a reality framework of a living marriage and therefore have strong faith in a lasting happy marriage. They therefore fight against all odds to maintain happy and successful marriage.

2.Most people understand the importance of education and because of experience and situational realities many send their children to school and even further their own education in the belief and hope of a better living

3. Religion -worshiping the dead. Many people believe and have faith and zeal in the worship of the ancestors. They understand that the ancestors have power over them and are able to heal, promote or even curse their lives. They saw it, learnt about it and even experienced it.

Consider the Biras in the African tradition which is a ceremony of the powers of ancestral spirits. You can actually witness people being filled with these spirits and sometimes starting to speak in other languages you may not understand, prophesying, healing the sick and doing weird things. I know this because about twenty-five years back I used to be in those Bira ceremonies and playing drums (Ngoma ye Bhakumba)

I just gave a few examples of what understanding is all about, but there are many more which you can also mention.

Now I will continue with my issue on understanding reality which is the CORE of this writing. I also intend to dig deep and reflect into life and death matters. So be patient as we slowly move on, the whole substance will clearly come out but this is really an issue of concern.

I will start by a question.

What is reality?

The simple answer that comes to my mind it that reality is truth. A probing question seeking clarity comes again about truth.

What is truth?

Some may describe truth as exactness, trueness, reality etc. This truth may however be subjective in relation to the thing or situation under consideration and its environment for example culture, geographical location or time. In short therefore what is deemed truth in one country or place may be unheard of in another country or place.

Please continue holding your peace as we are about to uncover the real matter of our subject “Understanding Reality’’ You might end up unmasking great wisdom for life after wards.

Worth Noting: “Reality can be dynamic hence when we talk about ‘’understanding reality’’ we are talking about some tireless process of experiencing, learning, researching and the understanding of changing patterns of the matter at stake so that the power of truth surrounding the subject matter is dynamically tried and tested in order to remain real.”

Without this introspection of self-belief people are there doomed to remain tied to old, ancient, unworthy and no longer applicable beliefs which may tend to be self-limiting, lived out and blinkering in real life.

An example about holding and living in old beliefs

For example, in a particular rural area a certain side road in a small bush to a nearby clinic was abandoned and a new one created on the other side because ten years ago residents in the area saw a huge black mamba two times getting into a hole rear the road.

Hear what this woman had to say about this ,“Even though I saw the huge snake many years ago I am not comfortable to use that road anymore because whenever I pass through that place my heart beats faster as I start thinking that the snake or its little ones might just image from somewhere.’’ Said the woman recently.

She still strongly believes that the snake or its siblings might be there. She still believes that the place is dangerous. But other people who have not seen that snake or who do not come from the locality use the old and shorter way and have never met anything dangerous. Infect, because of these strangers the shorter way is rejuvenating again.

The process of understanding reality and truth

In many cases the process of understanding truth and reality requires some awakening awareness to help and put some effort in order to investigate and establish the authentic reality.

Watch the Ants

Have you ever watched these small creatures, ants moving to and from in their single path? If you block their path with a crossing rod they instantly get confused for a short time and try to move along the rod hoping to reach the end of the rod. But its not too long before they start climbing over the rod and maintaining their usual path. They do this after researching to find out the reality of the situation. They say to themselves intuitively, “Is the rod climbable so that we continue with our way?” Then, one, two or three start climbing over the rod and when they see its possible they spread the good news and the confusion ends and all the ants climb over, maintain their way and get on with their business as usual. The interesting thing is that they have established the truth and reality that the barrier is fake. They refused to be doomed and perish in weakness and fakeness.

These small creatures, ants, experiment and research with the aim of needing to find the truth and want to live reality. When they found the truth, they had the power to live the reality. In this case the truth was that they were able to climb the crossing rod and continue with their daily business. The reality was that they accepted that every time of their trip they would climb this rod until they had established business somewhere. This is the power of knowledge. But this knowledge comes after some purposeful effort.

As a person grows and learns new life experiences it is wise to adopt a growth mindset. Do not continue to live in the old beliefs which you inherited from people of old such the limited beliefs of the ancestral spirits and Biras without researching, learning and experiencing new life in the current PURPOSE OF GOD. Here is wisdom for life. Life Truth & Reality Audio. Listen.

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