What is the Truth?

I would like to begin this exploration by clarifying a feeling. The truth is not some mystical or spiritual light. It’s a Knowing. It’s an understanding of how something works. What that thing wants, what it cares about, and what it doesn’t care about. The truth is tangible, it’s reliable. But its often not easily explainable.

Every situation, every problem has a truth. The truth may not be relevant to you, but a truth exists. You may be interested in truth about the matters in your life.

The truth is often like a delicate thin string that connects the master’s hand to the puppet on the stage. This thin string is almost transparent. If you don’t know about its presence, you may never have known of its existence. Yet, the puppet could not move on its own. There must have been something controlling the puppet.
At this point, you may have consulted a puppet expert on YouTube. One who would share all the secrets of puppetry in their online university. There is nothing wrong with watching a person’s educational series.

Regardless of their position, they would be sharing an opinion with you. Whatever they say, strings or not, is their opinion. How would you personally know the truth behind the puppet?

It would require you to leave your home and to go backstage to a puppet show. You would have to infiltrate the ranks of puppet masters and puppeteers. Only then would you learn their tactics. In order to really know it, you may have to control your own puppet.

You may wonder, isn’t that quite an investment for something that could be read on Reddit or seen in a documentary? Those mediums are others’ opinions. Often, they are a derivative of what the society or media agenda is. Those aren’t a truth that you personally know.

See, once you have controlled a puppet behind the stage, you understand in your bones how the process works. You have no incentive to research it anymore. The YouTube algorithm won’t show you videos about stuff you know. How many drivers watch YouTube videos on driving tips? Once you know how to drive and have been on the road, you know how the traffic system works. In a new city, you figure it out.

In this way, the truth is something you personally find. It represents the inner workings of the matter, the deepest understanding of cause and effect. There is a truth in all matters, but it is only the ones that are relevant to you that you will seek to know.

Truth has a connotation of something mystical or spiritual. A true seeker can have an ego, a persona. This would be a misstep and not how I wish to use the words. Truth is most often found when one examines a thing head-on long enough to gain a basic understanding. Then the exploration begins, when all the components of the matter are personally examined. Personal examination is performed. Hypothesis are tested. A-B variations are attempted. Specific questions are asked from the universe. In this way, the layers of the matter are all thoroughly examined.

Often one feels the truth behind something. They have been examining a matter and their intuition. The intuition reveals a feeling. At 2 a.m. in the morning or randomly in the shower, this feeling is something a truth seeker tests.

A master investor doesn’t know why he chooses a stock he does. When pursued, they often give the societal and cliched responses. If those responses were reproducible truth, there should be at least 100 Warren Buffett level investors. There are not. What Warren does, he does not even know.
This is a common thread in grandmasters. If you ask me what techniques I use in osteopathic medicine, I would say I feel the spirit. There is no strategy or steps to get better. Either you feel it or you don’t. When I get pressed to give a lecture, I have to dumb my art down into tactics and talking points. I assure you those tactics pale in comparison to having the feeling. The one who can feel it, is the one who can hear the music, is the one who understands the matter deeply. Deeper than intellectual explanations.

How do you hear the music? One must become available to the frequency of the sound. This can take a lifetime. But this awareness in everything, music, art, medicine, psychology, math, computer science, delineates a grandmaster from a practitioner. It’s a trait possessed by all the legends.

Should you do it? No.

Why? If you really want to understand something, drink it. Swim in it. Suck the marrow out of it.

My permission will not have any value. If you are serious, this will be your path, regardless of my permission.