As people, we need to categorise and label the things, people and the environment around us.
Doing so helps our brain to wrap around various concepts that we encounter and the things that we see in our daily lives.
However, all labels are actually useless.
Why? Because everything that you see, hear, feel or experience and give a name or label is based on your sense perceptions.
Someone may say that this space is small. Another may say that it is really huge.
Why is there the difference when they are both referring to the same space?
It is because each of them perceived the space with different sense perceptions, different values and different context.
A person used to living in an environment of huge, open space would find a house small. Yet, a poor person who lived in a small space and shared it with 10 people would find the same house to be huge.
So, who is right?
Neither one is right. The space exists just as it is. Big or small is meaningless to the space.
It is because human kind has such different perceptions that a lot of disagreements and arguments arise because each person defends his labelling and his perception to be absolutely correct.
This is the danger of labelling and naming things. It restricts our view and perception of its true nature.
We go running around, chasing our feelings and having opinions of everything and yet we fail to see the truth that lies within each of us.
Doing so helps our brain to wrap around various concepts that we encounter and the things that we see in our daily lives.
However, all labels are actually useless.
Why? Because everything that you see, hear, feel or experience and give a name or label is based on your sense perceptions.
Someone may say that this space is small. Another may say that it is really huge.
Why is there the difference when they are both referring to the same space?
It is because each of them perceived the space with different sense perceptions, different values and different context.
A person used to living in an environment of huge, open space would find a house small. Yet, a poor person who lived in a small space and shared it with 10 people would find the same house to be huge.
So, who is right?
Neither one is right. The space exists just as it is. Big or small is meaningless to the space.
It is because human kind has such different perceptions that a lot of disagreements and arguments arise because each person defends his labelling and his perception to be absolutely correct.
This is the danger of labelling and naming things. It restricts our view and perception of its true nature.
We go running around, chasing our feelings and having opinions of everything and yet we fail to see the truth that lies within each of us.
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