How is it that one can not know the truth?

Question

Would not that be impossible? ~ : )

The setting sun, my brothers eye.
Sister moon, the throwing off
to be born anew.
Back there following me,
Oh, I see now. ~ : )

What I am saying is "How can one not know the truth as it is always present, that would be impossible". ~ : )

Answer 1

One need not know the truth for as long as one need not.

How is it, you ask? well I guess it is like this. Their soul is bound by beliefs held in the mind that hide the truth from them.

Answer 2

How do you define TRUTH? A common statement that explains everything? Actually truth is a statement that makes an other statement true. Like an equation: 4 + b = 5. In this case TRUTH (b) = 1, or (-1)×(-1). The truth you are looking for actually depends on your question and it's always changing. Maybe you know what the truth is concerning a topic, but if only one detail changes, the truth may become false. Knowledge is infinite because the variants of the truth are also infinite. Why? Because even if you have only 10 characteristics of a situation, you cannot remain an observer: you can always add an other option that changes everything. Possibility and impossibility depends on the circumstances of the action. For exmaple you cannot fly in Canada, but you can fly in space. The real thruth cannot be reached, because there is no common truth. It changes with the world around us. As human beings, we barely begun to understand the complexity of our world. But actually noone can say, that god is all knowing at any time. Ascending into a higer plane of existence - if it is possible - is merely the beginning of learning more. And one more thing. Every time you say you know the truth, you actually do not know it. You only conclude it, and this conclusion is based on the informations you already posess as well as other conclusions you made before. Truth is a hidden thing for all of us. But general truth does not exist. If it did, It wouldn't be TRUE that we have our own free will in life. What did I say.... It wouldn't be TURE? .. never mind :-)

Answer 3

I know if I'd been wiser this would never have occurred but I wallowed in my blindness so it's plain that I deserve for the sin of self-indulgence when the truth was writ quite clear I must spend my life amongst the dead who spend their lives in fear of a death that they're not sure of, of a life they can't control It's all so simple really if you just look to your soul.

The truth is slippery. Maybe this will help

A Buddhist monk walks up to a hot dog vendor and says
"Make me one with everything" and hands him a $20 bill.
After receiving the slavered bun, the monk stands there a long time waiting and finally the vendor says
"Change must come from within!"

Get IT?

Answer 4

The Bible fortold that the majority would be in darkness. But think of it this way, there were many times in history when people, often religious, had supersticious ideas and would rather believe them than anyone who challenged their way of thinking. Many who argued theories that are now scientific facts were burned as heritics. The same goes for the true religion. Many are comfortable with what they believe and do not want to give up traditions. Thats why so many do not want to see the truth.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I disagree. A person already DOES know the truth. It's within all.

A person who has not ( or does not ) tap into the truth within...one who hasn't cleaned the " mirror " so as to see the the truth, to let that clean Light shine and reflect out, etc . . . ones as those may not know of the truth that is already within them. . . it's those who, as you phrased it, " can not know the truth. It's not " impossible " to know the truth. The " journey " may just not have been taken by a person to reveal that truth.

This question reminded me of a writing in a book that I looked up. It read as follows . . .
. . ." The universe as a whole comprises an enormous number of levels or " dimensions " of being. Each dimension possessing its own kind of reality and each being an expression of a different kind of consciousness. Dimensions overlap ". ~ ~ " We evolve as conscious beings, we ascend to higher and higher dimensional levels, that is, we achieve wider and wider perspectives on our nature . . . We gain a deeper and wider sense of the Unity of Being, the One Spirit, that runs through them all ".

" You are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience " by Bob Frissell.

I don't generally quote lengthy sections from a book...this seemed appropriate here.

And that last line . . . " that runs through them all ". I see that being the comment I made of...the truth is already in us. We've only to clear the " mirror " to see that " voice ", knowledge and truth.
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Answer 7

Ages ago, before humans knew counting, there was a man who preached that the world was numbered and that it could be counted, and that there is one true science of counting. He showed people how to add, subtract, and even multiply. After he went on, wandering off into the mountains, a cult grew up around this doctrine and people spent their Sundays counting rocks, communing with the divine order of things.

One day some cult members got word of another strange cult across the mountains that also had similar doctrines of counting. Some members made the journey and heard the doctrine of this other cult. To their amazement, these people were counting wrong! This whole cult was engaging in totally different rituals and had very different rules about adding and subtracting and multiplying their numbers. It was blasphemy!

They began to argue with these people, showing them their "true" science of counting. But these other people insisted that their counting was the true doctrine. Anger grew, until finally fighting broke out between them. They threw rocks at each other. It was a holy war. They were even counting the rocks as they threw them. The one group was throwing them, shouting 1,2,3,4,5,... as the rocks flew. The other group was throwing their rocks shouting 1,10,11,100,101,...

Appalled by such insanity, many people declared such counting cults as irrational. This counting knowledge obviously had serious epistemological problems, they said. These people were claiming to have verified two conflicting doctrines. They think "I tried it, it worked for me, therefore it's true." The subjective nature of their knowledge clearly shows that it is not a true science, but arbitrary belief.

Meanwhile, the visionary wandering counter, whose teachings had become the doctrines of these cults, was relaxing under a tree in a far off land, enjoying the summer breeze, and marveling over the beautiful unity of counting, and the wonderful diversity of manifestations it takes.

Answer 8

Jesus said 'you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free'. When Socrates found out the oracle said he was the wisest man in Greece he said 'If I am it must be because I know I know nothing and the others think they know something'. They both spoke the truth, it may seem contradictory, that's to stretch the mind.

Answer 9

That is Maya.
The blindfold.
The illusion.

We know the absolute truth; that,
The death is waiting on the doors.
Still we think that; we are immortals.
It is impossible to agree with the absolute truth

Answer 10

Truth is the Source of the mind that seeks to know it. This Source, therefore, is 'prior to' mind and all of it's concepts, and cannot itself be a concept.

Truth is that which observes through the eyes of the human, and through the perception of that individual mind, it tries to find itself. In much the same way that you could never find yourself by peering through a telescope, regardless of where you pointed it, the source will never find itself through mind.

That which is sought is the One seeking. It must stop perceiving through mind, turn around, and notice itself.

Answer 11

That expression "the truth is hidden" The mind can know, our core can know yet it canremain covered by so many illussions. Hense the Buddhist realization and understanding of illussion and resulting sufferings.

We know yet we refuse to acknowledge. Even enlightenment attained can be lost or Karmic effects manifested because of errors as we exist in constant change we must constantly reconfigure our understandings. Oh I am getting lost Cosmic! Adrift! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Peace!

Peace.