Three relationships with the reversals of views
Related to the previous post, but also a little different...
I see how I cycle among three relationships with an awareness of the reversals of views.
One is happily oblivious, using or attaching to a view without much awareness of the grain of truth in their reversals.
The other is releasing views. Having seen how each view has innumerable reversals, and they all have limited and relative validity, I become more cautious. I release from them, as much as I can. There may even be ambivalence here, because I see that I cannot continue in my certainty of particular views anymore, but I am also not quite able to play freely with them either. So I hold back. And I investigate.
The third is a free play with views, first using one, then another, then a third, the a view that includes some of them all, being able to find the truth and validity in each of them, and also seeing the limitations of each. This comes from a more thorough investigation of particular views and each of their reversals. There is a more finely grained familiarity with the terrain, so also more freedom.
Examples and flavors
There are many flavors to this.
One is in terms of views in general.
Another is with shadow projections, where I am first blindly caught up in it, then learn to recognize the symptoms and become more cautions, and then more free around it as we become more familiar with the process.
And yet another is in the belief of a separate self. Initially, we take it for granted. Then, when we see that too as just another idea with relative truth, we may get a little stunned and hold back for a while while investigating further. And finally, there is a freedom around it, a free play, allowing it to be there when it is, yet also seeing the insubstantiality of it.
The three relationships play themselves out in each of these situations, and many more than involves views and beliefs.
Labels: inquiry, phases, process, projections