Assumptions About Life · The Consciousness Path

Assumptions About Life

Exercise during the week:

'Contemplate what assumptions you have about life. Discover as many assumptions as you can, you should be able to find a lot. Do not stop on the surface, consider the life you live as an experience, what assumptions generate that experience?'

I have a life assumption that to live as a modern human, (i.e. a person) is to suffer other people, as if coming with the package. The agendas of other people, the loss of other people etc.

My assumption as a person with language and a life story is like a self-fulfilling conceptual loop, seemingly affecting my body interacting with other people with their own conceptual loops. Seems like we also want our loops to be consistent and predictable, easier to handle...again assumptions.

I'm considering life as a person as distinct from human life (separate biological entities) where the body does its job to navigate with sensation, like my body inherently sees, hears, feels, perhaps physical loops (like cells, looping and morphing into other cells etc.) Getting clearer on biological life, there is something very silent and trustworthy about it, nothing to worry about, body heals, breathes, digests, takes care of itself as change occurs, peaceful actually.

Looked up the English noun compassion, meaning "to suffer together with".

I'm allowing the possibility of living as a person generating compassion for the suffering of other people. Another person is just like me; we are suffering together as people. Seems more effective for life in general, maybe Buddha et al. had a point with compassion and unconditional love etc.

Thanks for listening.

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