The importance of the whole

 I have not written in quite some time. Even when I wrote consecutively I never perfected the art form. I never gained style and perfect grammar, my literary prowess is limited to the fantasy stories I wrote as a preteen wishing for adventures of his own. 

   My father explained to me when I was younger the importance of understanding things as a whole and the futility of taking things apart to understand them. He used the example of an a man who wished to understand architecture, this man had no teacher but books and a will to do so. This is often enough, the only problem was that he chose a path of deconstruction to understand. He saw a building and noticed that it was made of brick. So he studied bricks in all the wonder and glory and then broke it down even farther. Sand, this self made scholar understood sand quite well by the end of his studies, yet he was no closer to understanding architecture. 

   As we know it’s kind of a foolish example but it does the job. There is merit to understanding the building blocks, the only problem is that we often forget about the whole as we search farther and farther down. In my studies of hypnotism and meditation, qi (chi) and qi kung, kung fu and a variety of other things I’ve realized that you can learn things and understand them much faster if you can put things together. 

   In this I mean being able to discern the kernels of truth in every system, separating them from their respective whole and combining them with all the other kernels of truth you have found in your life.  Take for example life. Life is a crap shoot sometimes. Even when you are on the right road, life will throw the unexpected at you. For this you have to be flexible and flow. After all water very rarely loses a battle. It flows and molds to the situation, it always finds the path of least resistance. If you live your life like water, you will most likely be extremely adaptable and very few things will be able to throw you. This is true for life, love, work, play, combat, everything that I’ve ever experienced has had this truth to it.  This would be one of the afore mentioned kernels of truth. 

   The ability to adapt is beneficial. Truth. These kernels are like laws of the universe, and are ever changing like all truths. Many religions or belief systems have been built off of these kernels. Unfortunately for man, man is predisposed to settling on a truth. 

   It’s the same thing as a child looking at an addition puzzle, 2+2=4. A child figures this out, is told that it’s true and moves on. This child will always know that 2+2=4, now lets say this child started a belief system based on this equation which is a kernel of truth. A little while later another child figures out that 2+3=5, this child goes to the religion of 2+2=4 and says, " look friends, I have another truth." By this point 4 (2+2=4) has grown comfortable in knowing that his is true, accepting something else as true as well seems far too complicated and threatening so he turns 5 (2+3=5) away. 

   Now 5 knows that he has a truth and he also believed in 4′s truth as well. He starts his own religion of 5 and 4. After years and years of battle between 4 and 5.4 a sect breaks off of 5.4 saying that only 5 is true and nobel and that anything to do with 4 is just plain wrong. This now says that the truth that 4 has to offer is not true at all. 

   You can see how we’ve gone and messed everything up. The trick is treating life a little like physics I believe. If you find as many kernels of truth as possible and much raw information and put it all together. In physics this is an equation that will tell you the location of an object. If you have all the numbers, rotation, angle, speed, acceleration etc. you can tell where something will be any time in history, forwards or backwards, if you knew where it was at one point in time. Yet if you discount some of those numbers or if you’re missing one than you will never know.

   For example, to flip a coin and predict what it’s going to be mathematically you need to know many details. The force with which it was flicked, how fast it accelerates up, how fast it moves when it starts moving down, how gravity affects it, the rate of rotation etc.  Even if you have all of these numbers and more, if you discount something like factoring in that you had a strong east wind of _km/hr, you will never determine it exactly. 

 This is why I believe that if you find a kernel of truth, that is only a small part of your job. The kernel is useless unless you have the ability to take it, hold it and make it part of yourself, while still searching for more and being able to combine them with that first one.

No truth is the singular nor is it ever stationary.