What is truth?

Question

I know that this is a topic that is most profound in its scope, and I may easily appear foolish for asking, but I assure you, I am serious in wanting to know your opinion regarding what is truth. Truth did not magically appear one day, so where did it come from? Does truth absolutely apply to everyone irregardless of situation, or can truth be changed based upon our ideas of what is truthful? Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

Truth=Jesus, to put it simply. He is the way, the truth, and the life. This question actually encompasses many many subjects that i have not the room to expand upon. This is a worldview question, and worldview answers are book long.

Answer 2

We as humans long for this answer so diligently. In my opinion the fact of it is that truth is going to be something different for every single person out there. For example, I am a christian and I believe in Jesus and the whole nine yards, but an atheist most likely thinks that I am full of bunk because it can't be prov en. An atheist believes in science, a Muslim believes in Mohamed(sorry if mi spelled). Whatever the belief, I can almost guarantee that the person involved full heartedly believes that as an absolute truth. Without believing it was a truth, well there would be no point in believing in it at all. Some people grasp for truth that is backed up by logical fact and science, and for some, their truth is what they feel in their soul. Either way, we may never understand what or why others believe what they do......I have concluded that truth is always changed based on what our ideas of the truth are....as life progresses our ideas change and our beliefs change. Our beliefs ARE our truths......you probably once believed in Santa Clause, and to you at the time it was true...he existed. Now, obviously your ideas have changed....hence my way of thinking....no matter the truth, just have tolerance for everyone Else's.

Answer 3

Truth Is a Pathless Land

Lata Khubchandani
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J Krishnamurti departed from this world 17 Februarys ago. He was a philosopher deeply sceptical of the smokescreen that is the mind. Krishnamurti’s every realisation was the out- come of a spontaneous, non- biased, non-preconceived way of living, with no mind playing the filter. In truth he had little to teach, save that knowledge is not taught but realised. But his audiences made a teaching even out of that!

JK’s constant refrain was that what he said was not to be learnt and turned into a concept for future use. He would explain that our mind is full of preconceptions, and therefore ‘listening’ takes place in an already programmed brain. Rather, there is no listening at all.

JK spent his life trying to communicate the essence of understanding — that it had to be felt rather than understood. He was at least partially successful in his endeavour; despite the messy propensities of the mind, those who were touched by JK could never really be like those who had never had anything to do with him. Of course, JK baulked at the thought of being a guru! He was intangibly understood, beyond the confines of words, but some part of the human understanding grasped the subtlety of his communication.

“Truth is a pathless land”, he would say. Man cannot arrive at it through any organisation, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, or even philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He would have to seek truth, the kernel of understanding, through the “mirror of relationship”. This is probably the essence of what JK taught all his life.

What is mirror of relationship? Typically, JK does not explain, knowing that the search for precision in words and theory would kill the essence. What JK meant was that man, on discovering facets of himself, is able to reflect a particular facet of another person. The other person sees himself reflected in the first person and feels ‘understood’.

Therefore, understanding proceeds from heightened self-awareness. The self-realised man also needs relationships to fully perceive how self- realised he is, because more non-realised people would see themselves mirrored in him. The more he mirrors them, the more he expands as a human being, because he has understood more of himself by being able to reflect others. There is no self-realisation in isolation because there is no one to reflect, and that makes one limited.

Ironically, this can lead to an understanding of one’s own mind. What is one’s mind all about when one is able to reflect a saint, a sinner, a murderer, a rapist, a social worker, a child and an old man all at once? Does it mean one has come to realise that one is a sinner, a saint, a killer and a kind, generous being as well — that all these qualities co-exist with apparent harmony in one’s mind? How is that possible? If I live by killing others, how can I be a good, kind person?

Krishnamurti categorically said a mind with dichotomy was a fragmented one. All of us are fragmented minds, as we hold diverse and contradictory characteristics as living, vibrant qualities. But love cannot be experienced by a mind that hates. Is it possible not to hate anyone? The truth is that if one hates anybody one becomes incapable of love without realising it.

Love in this situation is conceptualised, not felt. When one experiences pure love, there is a sense of holism, exhilaration, freedom and benignity. There cannot be space for hate in this situation. Love and hate cannot be experienced simultaneously. JK made his communications experiential, as though one were walking through the experience and not merely talking about it. He is gone, but his effulgence helps us recognise the cobwebs within.

Answer 4

Truth is something that you thirst for. you seek it as a human because you need it... although there are few who deny it cimply because they do not wish to change their lives to suit it. do what you wish with them. show them miracles but their eyes will still be veiled. they do not want truth. truth is something that when discovered.. you fall in love with it.. your soul is truly contented because it is doing what it has been created for.. worshipping one and only God. truth is when you are humbled beneath a Supreme being in which you cannot compare yourself to... you acknowledge the fact that you are merely speck in His creation but having done so... it gives you purpose... you have something that gives you meaning. you are no longer one in 6 billion people.. others do not matter anymore and you dont look to them for your answers. you look within you and seek this belief and then you seek God. truth is something that you recognise because of its lack of error and its distinctness. you dont need to prove it in order to believe. you dont need to debate it even though you can. it does not anger you that others are ignorant because truth gives you peace. truth gives you the serenity and courage to carry out difficult things in life.. risks and hardships that are in the way of it. the truth is beautiful.. it is rivoting.. it sets your mind at ease and an equilibrium that nothing else can... its truly *the best thing ever experienced by a true believer of it and it rewards you well.. not just in the afterlife but in this life.. without it.. we are nothing.. we have nothing at all... just this false deceit around us.. i really hope that helped. thanx for your question.

Answer 5

Truth(™) is not something that Christians have a monopoly on, as much as they want to think that they do. It is not a religious belief.

Truth is defined as the degree to which a statement corresponds to reality and logic.

Answer 6

Dharma is the universal truth

Answer 7

truth is that which is sure and honest can not be changed. some people may believe some thing is true when it is not. they may believe their child is the most beutiful . does that makle it fact.

Answer 8

God is one