WHAT'S REAL AND HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
What is "real" and how would you know? Is something real if it has weight? Mass? What about an experience…Is that real? What makes experience real? Is the memory of the experience "real"? Is any movement you make real? With your body? thoughts? Movement of the heart? Feelings? Are they real? Is anything that is fleeting real? What about motion itself? Or Stillness? Is pain real? Pleasure? Is reality a Who? A what? A why? All of the above? None of the above? What of any passing experience is real? Understandably, there is so much to occupy us just to maintain, perpetuate and gratify ourselves, that these questions go mostly un-asked…and if they are asked, will they lead to answers? (My roommate in college assured me that there is no answer. Was he right?) Are any "answers that rise from the depth of being" real as it relates to the problems of living? The demands of life? If you follow this line of questioning far enough it leaves you off at... ...