There is no Spoon.............

Thinking of Philosophy again after my last post.............got me thinking about the coolest movie ever made - "The Matrix".

Now I'm not talking about the two bloated sequels that were shit incarnate.....no, I"m talking about the original one that took the world by storm with it's Messianic interpretations.

My favorite scene and the saying that I have plastered onto the back of my motorcycle helmet is the "There is no spoon" conversation between Neo and the little Buddhist boy who is bending spoons with his mind. Or so it seems.

Neo: How do you do that?

Boy: Do not try to bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Boy: There is no spoon.

Neo: There is no spoon?

Boy: Then you will see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

When I first saw that movie in the theater, I remember distinctly looking over at my son and asking him if he understood that. He said, "yea, I think I did - and that kind of scares me".

For what limitations do we truly put on ourselves and our world by our system of beliefs that tell what can and what cannot be true.

I certainly understand that our perceptions are our reality in so many ways. And what that means is that it may not be the absolute truth that we see - it may simply be that we see what we want to see.

We put our lives in a box that fits what we think it should be.

We ignore what may be right in front of our faces because we don't think it should be there therefore it can't be real.

Yea, that little scene opened up an entire universe of pondering for me.

And I still go there each and every day..........

Are there things in your life that may be different than the way you perceive them? Do your perceptions make your life easier to live or harder?

Because I have seen it both ways. There are people who see the bad when the bad isn't really there because they distrust so much of what life gives them. There are people who only see good when the bad is kicking down their door to rape and rob them.

We all fool ourselves each and every day.

But the question still begs to be answered............Is there a spoon??? Or is there simply our perception of that spoon?...........If it bends, is it the spoon that bends or is it us???

Such a deep day.

I wish you peace!!!