by will sprout

Created on: July 18, 2010

The truth!

But what is the truth?

And could truth really set us free from pain or suffering?

I suppose it depends on what truth we hear or discover that determines the degree of pain and suffering and also the lessening of those physical and emotional punishments we face. If we discover a belief to which we have adhered to all of our life, one for which we have been punished for and suffered for, was nothing more than a lie, then would the revelation of the truth be more painful than all that we endured?

So, therefore, does the truth necessarily relieve the pain and/or the suffering?

Take religion for example, how many different types of religions are there?

So which religion is true?

If there is only one true religion it implies that all other religions are nothing more than fabricated stories promoted for the betterment of some society or monetary reward for individuals. Yet what about those billions of people, who throughout the centuries have lived their lives in the following of a religion which was totally false; will they go to heaven or hell?

Will their pain and suffering be increased or removed by the discovery of truth?

Because these people never knew the truth, they only believed the truth of what they were taught, so will the revealed truth set them free or shackle them to the bonds of ignorant oblivion where the wicked are punished by eternal damnation?

It is the same with all things in life, the truth we believe is not necessarily the truth of life; different colours, different origins, and different customs all add to the complexity of what is true until eventually the truth itself becomes obscured by difference.

It’s just the same as in our adolescence when we believed that we had found our first true love; for a few weeks or months the truth held firm, being true to each other, but then gradually the love became lesser and the feelings not as strong as they originally were and we drifted further away from each other.

It was no ones fault, it was a mistake, it was never meant to be, and it was just one of those experiences in life which we must all encounter; or was our true love not as true as we thought?

So is truth then, simply a thought of what we believe to be true at the moment we conceive it to be the truth, a truth that will change or mature throughout our lives until eventually not a vestige of the original conception survives.

Does this mean that we have changed the truth or that we are living a lie?

The truth is ever difficult

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