@Icon,
Icon wrote:Even more than that actually. I am talking about judgment of almost all things. Right, wrong, fault, intention, and the rest of the major judgments which we apply to information related to cause and effect. To simplify: What happens when we stop Re-Acting and begin Acting? What happens when we stop applying needless sorting meta data to input and start processing input as information only. We can learn more from a situation when we remove ourselves from it personally and look at it from various angles. I am talking about the closest thing to absolute I can get to that goal. Action and result being viewed as simply something which happened rather than something which effects me.
Thank you very much - this is what I thought.
What you're talking about is - I think - a form of Bias. And yes, I'd say you're absolutely correct on it being an impediment to broadened understanding.
The personal bias' we have towards moral, political and religious orientations, and judging the motives of others is perhaps the most prevalent roadblock towards personal enlightenment (at least as I see it).
There's no way I can see, that someone can gain insight and
truly evaluate ideas, situations and concepts if they look upon any of their elements with any sort of prejudice. We're such sappy, saucy and tender-hearted wretches, really. If one of our closely-held concepts is, in any way, impugned we snap back with guns flaring (our wittle feelings hurt) to defend. Such a waste this is.
But I suppose that if any of this is true, the next question would be how does one achieve such a state of impartiality? We can't be
completely impartial, but I believe we can come to a place where we don't feel such a need to judge or discount out of puerile defensiveness. I think I know how (or at least one way how) but would love to hear your - or other's - ideas.
Thanks