CENSORING OUR REALITY (PDF-1180)

I realize as I write this that there will (probably) be few readers for this article. I know you like variety in these blogs, and that a few stories would be more welcome. However, I tend to go where my interest goes, and right now, in this political season, I am wondering how we will ever make headway against the lobbyists, corporations, and entrenched interests. And I don’t see a quick fix for solving our problems, but rather one that works from the bottom up, one person at a time. I am sure this may seem abstract, but I don’t see it that way. It involves not with how to change others, but with how to change ourselves. Philosophers, psychiatrists, and especially Buddhists talk about labels and labeling all the time. Labels here refer to that thin film of thought that coats our true senses, a prophylactic against actually feeling life, just as it is. Labels are a self-imposed mental filter between each of us and true reality.