All human speech, (verbal or written),
that does not concern factual physical matters,
and that is not mere social lubricant,
is about a --  “Search For The Truth.”
Men may call their particular activity the study of:
History, Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, Theology, Sociology, Political Science, 
The Liberal Arts, etc, but the underlying reality
is and has always been the same thing:
                 A search for -- “THE TRUTH.”
 

You do not have to be an academic,
or even know how to speel, “philosophy”
to be so engaged
for every time a man talks about the kinda guy he is,
or comments on one football team’s superiority,
or denounces some other person’s opinions on 
any subject,
the man is engaged in --  A Search For “The Truth.”

Note that I put, “The Truth” in quotation marks,
since even though,
everybody believes it exists,
there is no common agreement as to how it can be 
objectively recognized.

A man telling you about the kinda guy he is,
is searching for the TRUTH about what he is 
via his endless, self-centered palaver, 
yet there is no pre-established standard set by which he will be able to ultimately recognize the truth about what he is 
as separate from all that he has said about himself that is not.
And men debating the relative merits of different sports teams have no final, impartial model by which
to make a conclusive determination of, “The Truth”
about which is the better team.
And verbal tug-of-battles in all other second reality areas such as: politics, religion, economics, morality,
are in the same situation.
The cellular activity in men’s brains called, the mind,
is in a relentless search for, “The Truth,”
but will admit to having no advance notion as to how
it is to be correctly recognized --  if found.
(The popularity of religions is based on their claims of having such knowledge from extrinsic, suprahuman sources;  brain cells pointing their little fingers away from themselves as they insist that the image they just made up 
ACTUALLY EXISTS! --  “just over there somewhere.”) 
 

Those of a more metaphysically wired mind of course,
profess it to BE, “Metaphysical,”
perhaps being SO removed from everyday life as to be beyond human comprehension,
(but fun to think about anyway),
but as is always the case, (if not the sixpack),
to a clear channel eye -- 
the matter is not nearly so uncertain --
it’s just a matter of the mind being a creature of
a reality of which it was also the creator --
which, pragmatically,
results in a situation wherein, 
(as should  be a surprise to no one),
an eyeball in a Dali painting cannot,
even with its very best efforts,
ever see itself in context, or perceive its origin.
   The Little Mermaid can never recognize 
   Christian Anderson as, “The Truth.”
 
 

            The “Truth” is what happens.
 

There it is,
and there is nothing else to say.
The first word said after that is useless,
and any after that --  misdirective.

But note: 
even after hearing the truth about, “The Truth,”
your mind is probably not instantly Enlightened,
and satisfied -- 
it still wants to argue and debate the issue;
pick holes in the sentence;
accuse it of gross “materialism,”
(Ooooooo! the mystic’s ultimate insult & dismissal!)

But there it is and there it remains:
                           The “Truth” is what happens.

The instinct mind of the brain knows this full well,
always has, 
‘s’never been in question;
the entire life of your body operates by the principle;
it is your hand selecting; your mouth opening; 
your throat swallowing; your stomach accepting,
your bowels boweling 
so that life in your case – goes on,
all based on this simple reality:

                        The truth is what happens.

 …(and of course if you somehow ate poison  --   you died, 
and that was the “truth” of what happened in 
that particular instance.)

The routine cellular activity that produces thought in our brains is not arranged in such a manner as to
act like a mouth that can swallow itself….
….which is about what it takes to, “Wake up”;
ordinary thought cannot take in completely 
the reality of those five words:
”The truth is what happens”
in that it is immediately unable to see that what EVER comment it may have in reaction thereto
IS now a part of “what happened” --
that every time your thought denies the truth of the statement,
your denial becomes part OF the truth of the statement.

Trying to shake your brain’s cellular activity of consciousness 
into a new mode of operating
is truly akin to a mouth attempting to swallow itself,
and staying frustrated, and unable to accomplish this is due simply to your failure to recognize how things are in your own neural headquarters.

Your heart, lungs and all the rest of your body 
know that  --  “The Truth” is what happens,
but the thoughts that normally occupy your mind
never will --  they never can.
The job of thoughts is to think about 
what happens in life in ways  OTHER THAN it is,
for only by so operating is man able to 
change the natural conditions of this planet 
to better accommodate his particular needs,
and while neural activity is a boon to his physical life,
it seems disinclined to do anything beneficial 
for itself, in the sense of self-scrutiny & revelation,
the very stuff of specific interest to those men already being driven by their own neurons urging to,
”Search for The Truth” – (which in truth IS):
a search for the truth about thought.

…and in this -- you get no natural help from 
your own thoughts.
What a game! --  what a sport,
the reality of which, few  --  even among, “The Few” --
ever come to realize.

The simplicity of it completely confuses the mind;
the brain does not produce thoughts for the purpose of dealing with simplicities  --  Nay, on the contrary, thought is specifically constructed to work with the physical complexities that 
are the conditions of life,
and to break them down into simpler, 
mentally manageable pieces,
but thought, as now constructed,
is not built nor intended for the contemplation of the simple
and obvious,and is not programmed to have an interest in 
how thing ARE,
but rather, as they COULD be;
not interested in the “Truth” of what happens,
but an open-ended, “Truth” that is forever arguable.

The “Truth” about things, to a man’s ordinary thinking, 
is whatever his thinking can momentarily imagine they 
COULD be,
while the truth to superheated thinking is: 

                           What ever happens -

 -- not whatever the thoughts in your brain SAY happened;
not whatever they say COULD have happened,
and not anything they say SHOULD have happened;
this is what makes up "the truth" of ordinary reality,
but is not the one perceived by a man who can
see-to-the-bottom-of-things;
he takes into account only what happens,
both --  “out there" (in life),  and,
”in here” --   in what is apparently -- him.

Nothing that will ever naturally pass through your mind 
will ever reveal to you, “the truth” about things;
only the things themselves can do that --
and they do so -- relentlessly!
Life is revealing to you, "the Truth" at every moment, 
by letting you witness what actually  --  happens.

It is then up to you whether you see it or not,
and recognize that what you see happening 
is the long sought-for “Truth"  -- 
                                   and that there IS no other.
 
 

                         ….simple, huh?!
                        and neater’an the curl in a pig’s tail.

                               Oink! --   galahad  --  oink.
 

                                         JAN