Who is the Master Who makes the Grass Green?
Some of you may have heard this before (especially if you are one of my
children, or friends,) but for the ones who did not and for the ones who may not
remember it too well, here it is, black on white (or some other two contrasting
colors that will enable the reading of this.)
The way this color vision works is like this: The white light of the sun
actually includes all the colors of the
rainbow in it. When that light shines on something, that object is absorbing
most of the colors except one. So if it is grass that we are talking about, the
grass is absorbing all the colors of the spectrum except green. And so, the
funny part is that we actually call the grass green when in reality, it is all
colors except green; Green is the one color that it rejects. So when you say the
grass is green, you are actually subscribing to a preconceived notion that
everyone else holds on to. The truth is that: GRASS IS ANYTHING BUT GREEN.
Here is another thought for you to examine: Science says that green is the color
with a wavelength between 5000 and 5400 angstrom units. It cannot however tell
us how that looks to you, or to me. I can accept that everyone who can perceive
colors, calls the color that occupies that part of the spectrum green, but no
one can prove to me that what they actually see is the same thing that I see,
even though we give it the same name.
So here is the point that I am getting to: You, of course are the master that
makes the grass green. Not only do you make it so by decree (as I was trying to
demonstrate in the previous paragraph,) you also make it so by your very
existence. Because let us face it, without some kind of sentience to construct
all of these elaborate theories, languages, perceptions, etc., none of this
would be available, nor indeed necessary.
So, to take this little thought exercise a little further, you need to embrace
the concept that the goings on in
the exterior world, are all forwarded to your brain by your senses but the
interpretation is taking place in your own, private and personal brain. Science
can explain all of that for the rest of eternity, religion may preach at you
till it is blue in the face and your mom may boxed you ears when you misbehave,
but none of them can actually change the fact that the one thing that gives life
and existence to all of creation is, your, own, brain. Any one thought that you
hold about morals, religion, science and so on, is totally and absolutely your
own interpretation of whatever it is that is really out there.
Basically, if your neighbor's dog tells you to go and kill someone, and you
actually do it, it is not the neighbor or his dog, not the Devil and not the
aliens; You did that. Adversely, if God tells you to go and kill your only son
and you have the intention of doing it, again it is your brain that interprets
the signals, and it is you who executes the command. So, do not shirk the
responsibility; It is all yours.
YOU ARE THE MASTER WHO MAKES THE GRASS GREEN. (Or brown, if you so choose.)
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