I think we humans do not celebrate/acknowledge/display our failures and pains nearly as much as we do our successes and pleasures.
This is likely because:
- Acknowledgement of failure is perceived as a display of weakness, whereas
- Acknowledgement of success is perceived as a display of strength.
And in an individualistic, competitive context, the strong survive and the weak succumb.
But in a shared, cooperative context, relative strength and weakness become but variances in any mixture of dimensions within the one flow that induce flavor, diversity, and multitudes of values and products for everyone to experience and share. Just like our global market has achieved in recent decades, to a point.
And in this shared, cooperative context, relative strength and weakness gradually become obsolete terms. What is then of import is truth and communication, so that the correct information, resources, and efforts may be efficiently distributed, and reach all the recipients that may best use them, who can then continue to share their own gifts and products forward within the one flow.
Thus I believe that acknowledgement of Truth is of value. Of both successes and failures. Of both pains and pleasures. It begins with acknowledgement to oneself - only then can it bloom onto acknowledgement to others.
I believe such a practice may help us realize more clearly the hidden fears and shames we carry within. Once they are seen and felt, we can then choose to change or dissolve them so that we may be liberated from them, and again tread the spaces both inner and outer, which these hidden stagnancies once blocked and befouled.
And as we become thus liberated, Truth more freely flows through us, out from us, into us, and amongst us. Then I believe we naturally realize the vast benefit of confidently stepping forward into a shared, cooperative society, and of leaving needless competition behind.
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