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Bias

The beauty of the grouping is the sense of security it gives to its members. The common characters that define the group, define the members. The lowest hanging fruit to satisfy the hunger of identity is to belong to a group and attach its character to the self. This satisfaction comes from the misconstrued nature of defining the self itself. Self in spiritual terms is the thing that remains when all thoughts disappear. Self in the pragmatic world becomes those very thoughts. Thoughts can be dangerous, as a wise man once told me, “the human mind can imagine anything”. Instantly, upon listening to that sentence, I felt proud. The endless potential of it gave the ego precisely what it was craving for. But then, realising that the ability did not belong to me, and not just me, meant the meal for the ego had come to an end. This means there is a need to create an identity that is relative and relevant to the immediate environment, the group! The happiness of belonging to the group now becomes ‘also-run’ and the need of differentiators arises.

Identities are labels, like the ones on books that say who that piece of tangible material belongs to. Identities are relative and arise out of experience. Identities are defining the other entities of the environment around. Identities are defining the other humans around. But, the other human is unique and there is no way it can be truly defined. Ergo, bias. With what I know I define what I see. Logically undeniable approach to doing it can be nothing else precisely. Learning to read a language in a way will help judge an essay and what the author says. However, believing in the interpretation as the only possible right one is where joy goes to die.

In a group setting, bias can be significant and still be given minimal attention. The reason for such a behavior is because bias isn’t as simple to notice, even within oneself. Many examples of how biased opinion has led to losing interesting people lie within the avenues of the brain, but lessons aren’t learned from these because the language that bias speaks is inaudible and incomprehensible to the listener. To train the mind to pay attention to this language is necessary to enjoy life around to the fullest. To protect, bias helps identify a threat, but is that threat real? Or is that threat made to manifest by the doing of the bias in the mind?



Unconditional love results from unbiased thought. Unbiased thought results from the search for truth as the singularity, for how can there be more than one version of the truth, eh?


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