The view you are...

I as a human have a view. I have a view on things, I have a view on situations, circumstances and other humans. My view is unique. But so is yours.

Yet most of us don't have views, we are views...

Imagine a sphere which is construed of billions of spheres — each sphere is unique, but together they create one big sphere.

Now these spheres can be in harmony with one another, and they can be in opposition to one another. Yet in the end they are all part of one big sphere.

Now imagine how it was possible for each sphere to have a view of the whole.

Would it make any sense for the sphere to keep being in opposition to any other sphere?

Would they fight each other over which one is right?

Probably not.

But this is what we do when we believe ourselves to be the view we hold.

Then my idea of the world becomes the correct one and I its defender.

The people should be a certain way, and things should go a certain way, and the world ought to be a certain way.

The problem with our views is not that we have them but that we confuse ourselves and our views to be one and the same. We are, for the most part, our views.

And whatever our minds identify with will be fought for its survival.

Look at the world. When we think we are our possessions, we are constantly scared to lose them. When we think we are what we do, we are attached to our occupation. When I think I am smart, I need to protect my being smart and will react to any threat to my being mister smart. If I am my view, I will protect it against any other view.

A lot of our time is spent trying to manage our views and others, trying to fit them all into our view or throw them out and make them wrong.

But I want to create a possibility that is totally outside of management, protecting and attacking each other's views.

I create that there exists the possibility for each sphere to become aware of being one big sphere — that we are able to recognise our shared ground for all views to exist in. And from that point it becomes possible to have different views but not be the views you have. Then I can have a different view than you and we are big enough for both of them to be.

Then we can learn from one another's views, we can play with our views and we can be curious about views as something to have. And when we have them we can choose to let them go and create a different one.

What is the view you are?

Are you willing to have it?

Warmly,

Moritz

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