All reality is real and never true (3min)

From the QUALITY OF MIND Podcast

Part of the 'Not Even 5 Mins Series'  

 

In this short Quality of Mind snippet, we explore one of the core implications explored in Quality of Mind: Real but Never True.

Everything we experience is real in the sense that it is vivid, felt and alive. We can feel it in the body. It can look obvious. It can seem to be happening to us.

But that does not mean it is ultimately true in the way it appears.

Using the example of a vivid dream, this snippet points to how an experience can feel completely real while it is happening. The body can react, the heart can race, and the experience can seem undeniable. Yet when we wake up, we recognise that it was not objectively happening to us in the way it appeared.

Quality of Mind invites us to consider whether waking life is more similar than we normally assume.

Not fake.
Not imaginary.
But a perceptual creation.

Real as experience, but not true as a fixed, objective reality happening outside the mind to a separate “me”.

This matters because so much of our stress, pressure and reactivity comes from believing that our wellbeing is determined by external events and circumstances.

The difficult email.
The bank balance.
The work issue.
The family drama.
The thing that did or did not happen.

When these are taken as objectively determining us, psychological freedom narrows.

When we begin to see that experience is real but never true, something loosens. We can still deal with the practical realities of life, but with less identification, less contraction and more freedom.

Curious? Want to know more?

This is a short extract from a longer conversation with fellow coach Adam, where we go deeper into the avatar, the Case of Mistaken Identity, Direct Inquiry, and what it means to see beyond the self we usually take ourselves to be.

Full episode:
When a lifelong coach encounters Quality of Mind: exploring beyond the avatar

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