The complex interacting forces between the subconscious being and the soul, supposing subconscious being and soul exist, (in the event they do not, there must be something to replace them since we have experience of the existence of subtle forces working in the inner layers of our understanding of reality, you may call them mind and intuition or brain and instinct), then, the complex interacting forces between subconscious being, soul, and our conscious mind work in the same system we call our reality.
The fact that this reality may be very different from one human being to another does not affect the outcome because the subject is concomitant with the stage, and the stage is what the same subject, in a proper manner, develops based on the facts reality shows to the subject's understanding. All this shaded by the inner capabilities each one of us "receive" at birth. The difference between recognizing a red thing and knowing what red is, applies here.
This being of ours, immersed in our reality, invalidate any intent of explanation we can think of Honesty, Truth, and Love. All these explanations will be tinted with the implant of our being alive (perception of reality), of our culture, of our vast or small knowledge of ourselves and the world in general.
Confucius, from my viewpoint and with due respect, is not the only one trying to oversimplify the notion starting from a sophism, or maybe from a warped rule of true understanding what "being good" means. He stated his thoughts in words that a human mind can understand but cannot translate into deeds since the ancestral power that moves humankind is just its own survival, a powerful self-centered drive that rules out any concept, idea, or perception out of those boundaries.
This survival force overrides any other law and, being a whole with no crevices, it cannot be severed, fractured or divided in parts because it only exists in its own wholeness. Only if we seek and attain a way to nullify this strong force of "life" and found intellectual reasons strong enough to keep the survival "howl" that live inside our deep self quiet and mute, it is possible to find the road to honesty, truth and love (lower case words), which put us near enough but not there yet!
(to be continued)
© 2007 Soother.
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