Hello everyone, my name is Andrew and welcome to the video.
So today I'd like to talk about fact and truth.
Now what is the difference?
Because after listening to many talks by Jiddu krishnamurti, I would get these two terms
confused, mixed up, because is fact also truth?
Now this question has come to my mind many times and I feel like it's very important
to talk about the differences between the two.
Now fact, we can obviously see as a fact, is based off of our own limited perception,
our limited perspective, our incomplete view of what has happened or what is done or what
is going on now.
So basically a fact is knowledge of what is happening right now, knowledge of what has
happened or knowledge of what is finished, what is done.
So therefore, comes a question, is truth bounded by knowledge?
Is truth in the realm of the intellect?
Now facts are incomplete, they are limited, because I may accumulate facts and express
them to you, but you may not see that fact or believe it to be true.
So therefore, facts just as themselves, have no value, no meaning, but the seeing of that
fact, the seeing the truth of it, the liveliness, the vitality of that fact that is going on
right now in our own lives and seeing that, the truth of that.
The truth being that nonverbal vitality that we can't express through words through symbols
because it would just end up as mere accumulation or repetition of words and symbols, if we're
talking about it to ourselves, but if we're trying to express facts to others then others
would just accumulate it.
There's no seeing the truth of it.
So is there any relationship between fact and truth at all.
Now I feel like fact has no relationship to truth because facts or accumulating facts
or looking at facts in order to get to the truth of something doesn't seem to work right?
Because it's like we're adding sequential parts together in order to arrive at a destination
or a solution, which we may call truth, but is really an idea of truth.
And truth can't be an idea because any and every single idea is incomplete, is a fragment
of the whole, which is truth.
So therefore, fact does not have a relationship to truth.
However, truth does have a relationship to fact because as we mentioned earlier we can
see the truth of a fact that liveliness, that vitality of that fact.
So when one sees the truth of something and actually, naturally lives it because that
perception is action, is acting, then truth is acting throughout my words, throughout
my actions, throughout everything I'm doing.
So it's not just, I've achieved truth, truth will becoming this idea, this fact according
to us, that is just there, but truth is that seeing that vitality, that liveliness and
living it actually.
Not based off of an idea and not living off of an idea, not living off of a fact, but
acting according to the moment, according to the facts of what is, but how can we act
if we don't really see the truth of the fact?
If we're just trying to act, trying to act from a fact, from our idea of it?
Then it is like we are trying to do something in order to bring about a desired result.
So therefore, it's always inadequate, it's always going to bring about some sort of confusion,
some sort of problem.
Well thank you all for watching and listening and I will see you all in the next video.
Bye.
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