Because a symbol is a proxy for something else, and that something else is a proxy for something else, and so on, the values are the same because they are all the same thing. We can only interact with the symbol and it’s association within our perception rather than the actual thing.
As these symbols and relationships seem to exist, and do so in a way that is relative to us, the representations appear in a field of time and space. This time and space is the "logical narrative" of our experience.
We symbolize "nothing", creating the illusion of separation in order to exist. However, Nothing cannot actually be represented, neither can infinity. Therefore, we perceive a universe of an infinite variety of possibilities and representations or probabilities of symbols and relationships.
Everything in the Universe is represented in what is being experienced right now. Our perspective only contains that which takes the least amount of activity, or energy, to perceive. This means we are only experiencing the most probable, and the most relative, things we can experience from moment to moment.
So, in order to expand your perspective through thinking, expand your awareness and get rid of your thoughts, rely on them less, and make them interact with what no longer matters to you. Expand your experiences, change your relationships, associations, symbols, etc.
In The Secret Oral Teaching of Tibetan Buddhist Sects, on page 8, by Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden, we receive the following when the Buddha asked some of his students:
“If, now, you understand thus, and see thus, will you say: We honour the Master and it is out of respect for Him that we speak thus?”
“We shall not do so.”
“What you say, O disciples, is it not only that which you have yourselves recognized, yourselves understood?”
“It is exactly that Venerable.”
The realization is that any “higher authority” or outside moral structure is simply another illusion created within the Universe in order to propagate further separation through the use of such symbols as Truth, Doubt and Falsehood, and their attendant associations and relationships that appeal to various desires or repel us.
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