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Do You Believe More?
By Ding Reyes
Prof. Ed Aurelio C. Reyes of Asian Social Institute (ASI) and International Academy of Management and Economics (I/AME) also conducts a monthly half-day seminar on Insights to Re-member, giving lots of eye-openers and day-to-day reminders on the “Oneness of All.” Here is one example of those:
TO SEE is to believe! “I have to see that with my own two eyes!” Okay, so we hear this challenging pre-condition for believing from the mouths of various Doubting Thomases all around us, and even from our own mouths. And there is, of course, some logical basis for this assertion, especially if we tend to overreact to the mere prospect of the other extreme, that is, being gullible.
This “seeing is believing” line can be brought to absurd extremes. For one thing, because many other phenomena go well beyond the realm of optical sight, other conditions have had to be resorted to.
One can never be sure that a savory-looking dish is really delectable just by looking at it. Go ahead, have a taste! The proof of the good pudding is in the good eating!
Moreover, we have learned in life a lot about illusions. Like seeing things as they appear, not as they are functionally or at the core, like a good book with a not-so-good cover, or a black “lead” pencil in a yellow-painted wooden body, or a beautiful soul wearing a “not-so-pretty” physical face.
If we’re not careful, we can be very gullible as we rely too much on our optical sight. Consider how thin the spectrum of visible light is – so much reality all around us, even through us, has been perfectly invisible!
And then there is this fact that a lot of things we know to varying degrees came to our awareness and ken, courtesy of many other pairs of eyes, many pairs of ears, many tongues, noses, etcetera.
If I limited myself only to what I’ve come to know from my very own sensory organs I would wind up with just a tiny portion of my very limited present knowledge.
If those blind men relied on their own respective hands feeling around the elephant they would never have gotten a fairly accurate picture of that mysterious mammoth mammal. The others’ views should be heard out and trusted.
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..........Each one of us
........is a walking plurality
......of views. We don’t have
....to search very far
..to discover this.
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Varying views of people of the very same thing can all be correct!
Our best bet in a quest for even just the “thinnest slice of Omniscience” is collective knowledge. To those who insist on believing only what their own eyeballs can see, I direct this challenging question: which of those two eyes of yours do you believe more? In their own respective winks, the left eye would assure you that your nose is towards the right; while your right eye would swear seeing it towards the left!
Fortunately, they would recognize it to be the same nose, yours, despite the fact that they are viewing two different sides of that facial fixture.
Yes, our two eyes see differently, from their own respective angles. Both these views are valid and correct. Both of these views are useful and are to be respected. The discrepancy is very small – about two inches, but their triangulation makes it possible for us to see things in a three-dimensional way. A one-eyed person cannot see depth and relative distances, only a pair of eyes can, and it has to be in a very-slightly-cross-eyed mode. (I wonder how flies do this!)
One who believes that only his own view is the correct view would only have to try and take a good look at his own nose. That would be enough to be reminded by his own two eyes: each one of us is a walking plurality of views.
We don’t have to search very far to discover this. If we could only see this glaring light of truth right within the design of our own pair of eyeballs, and in trying to look at our own noses, we can avoid a lot of constriction of learning.
And we can likewise avoid a lot of useless debates on which one of our widely-differing views is the valid one.
Maybe, they all are! 
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