Where is the truth?
All my life I have been searching for the truth in everything I have done. For a long time I have listened and followed many people.
I have read many books even those considered sacred, of various religious and cultural traditions, searching and comparing, until I realized that there are no better or lesser masters, superior or inferior writings because the truth is within us and it is up to us to discover it.
We cannot discover it in others or in sacred texts because others or the sacred scriptures only serve as a mirror. They reflect only that level of truth that we have already reached within us. We will never be able to discover anything more!
There are many levels of truth in my experience, some smaller and others larger, more superficial truths and deeper truths contained within each other. All of them are true but at different levels.
I think for example as a karate practitioner that every movement of a kata can have so many meanings. With time and experience, when a practitioner is ready, he discovers them; but the deeper applications do not deny the validity of the more superficial applications perhaps represented by a simple parade.
In my experience it is necessary for this parade to be practiced infinitely and in infinite ways until instinct and spontaneity make one discover a deeper meaning.
One cannot jump to a level. You have to practice each level until it is integrated, because only then does the deepest level open up spontaneously.
The different meanings that emerge later are all true.
When there is a thunderstorm and it rains, the rain is a real truth and is opposed to the sun and the clear sky which is a false truth: if the rain is true, the sun is not true. They cannot exist at the same time.
But if I move up and go above the clouds I see the sun shining with the sky all clear I realize that these two facts are both opposite and not opposite and are both true at the same time.
In my life I have learned that what seems false is instead true on a deeper level and that two things that seem opposite become simultaneously true as seen from a different level of awareness. I have also understood that we do not need masters of life (even if we always have the freedom to do so) who tell us what to do and what is true and not true, we just have to learn to see inside ourselves.
Just as we use a mirror to see our faces, we have special mirrors to see inside ourselves: from sacred scriptures, to books, to the people who enter our lives, to those who remain with us and those who leave, and the situations and circumstances in which we find ourselves involved. More generally, we can learn to observe and read in the great mirror of our life, which at times may seem like a labyrinth whose exit we cannot find, but which in reality is simply a great metaphor for "WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE" in our process of growth at the moment.
Luigi Zoia
