[Jagriti] ✔ Right and ❌ Wrong

Many times we justify our beliefs based on our experience.

But experience is a deceptive teacher.

We can never be sure what we have learned is valuable or not.
Maybe what the experience has taught to us is relevant and meaningful.
Maybe the experience is only causing us to adopt beliefs which are blocking, limiting or hampering us.
Maybe.

Which is why children - who are yet not contaminated or conditioned can often throw completely startling beliefs at us. But we think we are wiser. Really?
Or we simply know more and knowing can be such a block to exploring. No wonder children learn much faster than us.

Is the belief we get from experience more valuable than other beliefs?
How can we be so sure?

One way to look at experience is to call it stale learning.
How will it be if we discard our experience as just an occurrence.

What will happen if we emptied our cups to accept fresh learnings.
Or maybe we kept many cups and kept taking new 'thoughts', neither as superior or inferior to old thoughts. We want variety in our daily life - in what we wear, in what we eat, in what we watch on TV ... why not variety in our beliefs. What will happen if we could hold multiple (sometimes even contradictory beliefs). In philosophy we call it a paradox:. As a starter - some simple examples:

Eating quietly is good. Chit chatting while eating is good.
When we fight - you lose peace. When you fight you gain understanding.
Blaming language can put children down. Blaming language can help children understand what was not acceptable.

I am sure if you watch your behaviour - you will see how you tend to behave from two completely contradictory beliefs at different times (sometimes within a day).

To sum up here is our favourite nursery rhyme:

Right and Wrong went up the hill
to set the world in order
Right fell down and broke his crown
and Wrong came tumbling after.

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