Take the Bite or Shut up

The birth of all concepts is also the birth of the biggest misconception of all time. It appears to have begun when a man, or maybe a group of men, began the endeavor of putting Life into a cute little box, and then deciding to share this with all the ears that listened.

Now before going further, it must be made clear that it is not being implied that this was the wrong way to go. But it must also be made clear I am not here to discuss the benefits and consequences of concepts.This is about living life with no concepts at all.

I'll offer the following analogy to demonstrate the point being made. Let's say that there is something you've never had a taste of. To make this easier, I'll pick something specific. Let's say that you've never had an avocado. I can describe the color, the texture, even offer a comparison, but as we all have learned, not until you taste it, do you really get clarity on what the experience of eating an avocado is like, and only then do you truly understand how the description was right or wrong.

Only with tasting it. Only with taking that bite.

Now let's make an extreme example. Let's say that nobody ever quite gets the guts to taste the avacado. So you got scientists cutting it in half, messing with the texture, analyzing the seed, playing with the skin, creating all sorts of concepts of what it MIGHT be like to eat an avocado, but in the end, no one really knows. Until a few come around that are so tired of wondering what it might taste like, or worse, being TOLD what it might taste like, that they dive in and taste it for themselves. So now, that they've tasted it, you got these few brave ones being bombarded by everybody else who wants to know what an avocado tastes like. 'Do you like it? Whats the texture like? Do you eat all of it or part of it? How does it feel in your tongue?' People want to know. So now, these few are trying to explain to others what their direct experience of eating an avocado was like, while others insist their theory is a better description of what is it like to eat an avocado, but the truth of the matter is that no one can really tell anyone what an avacado taste like, so this problem is never going to be solved until people get brave and taste it for themselves. It's ridiculously easy, right?

To get into the depths of Life, the Universe, Your Self, you can't be the reader of concepts, or the creator of concepts, but a destroyer of concepts.

You destroy all concepts through experience.

Life is in front of all of us. All of us are breathing. There is no privilege you need to gain, no status to attain, there doesn't even need to be an understanding of anything at all. All that is needed is that you to take the bite.

How do you really do that?

You stop looking everywhere else for answers. I know that it has become common nature to get together and share ideas,but consider that it would be wise to know what you are talking about first.

If there is anything we can help each other with, it is with getting each other to take that bite. Edging each other take the leap, that first step. In any other manner, we are not helping each other at all.