Outcomes
Ilexa Yardley 01 March 2010
We can influence, or produce, or experience an outcome by eliminating the idea of outcome. Or, another way of saying, or seeing, this, is to say, or see, we can detach ourselves from any, and, eventually, every, outcome.
Outcome stems from the rigid belief in future, or time. That is, to have an outcome, we must have a linear time belief. We must believe, for outcome to exist, that whatever is present today is somehow different from what will be present tomorrow. This linear belief, or idea, of outcome keeps us moving through (in) time.
Wishing for an outcome is the same as believing in causation, or, believing in time. To wish or hope for an outcome, we must first assume the outcome is not presently present. Otherwise, if the outcome were present, it would not exist (as an outcome).
This may seem illogical or confusing at first. But it is easy to understand if you slow down your thought process AND eliminate any assumptions you are carrying around about time.
Assumptions about time are involved in all thought. Otherwise there would, or could, be no thought. Thought is a progression in time involving outcome. If outcome is involved, income, or input, or present must also be involved (to get to there we must have a here).
If we detach ourselves from outcome (and we do not need to be Buddhists to do this) we might garner a more realistic view (experience) of reality along the way, assuming, of course, along the way exists (another assumption involving time).
Detaching ourselves from outcome means we are outcome because to imagine it we must, somehow, or somewhere, already be, or have, it. So the easiest way to express, experience, or create an outcome is to accept it as already present. We can look for any outcome in our present reality, or, even better, we can assume any outcome is our present reality.
For example, if we would like a pleasant outcome we can assume we already have a pleasant reality, we can find this, we can place our attention on it, and, voila, we have magically (realistically) produced it.
Via a similar example, if we would like a not-so-pleasant outcome, we can assume we have already a not-so-pleasant reality, we can find it, we can place our attention on it, and, voila, we have magically (realistically) produced it.
Now we are getting closer to reality. This is because we are forced to notice assuming an outcome produces it, because, obviously, outcome and observation are experientially, and realistically (scientifically) the same.
Observation and assumption, then, are, in circular reality, the same. Therefore, on some level, there is no need for science.
Therefore, whatever you are assuming is, and whatever you are not assuming also is. This occurs in science, philosophy and psychology because it is based in mathematics (a line must always be the diameter of a circle).
So we must assume, as outcome, we already have figured everything out in order to (have) figure(d) it out.
This is easy. Again, it is logical. Uber-logical, for the logicians in the group.
Assuming we will figure things out in the future is what keeps us trying to figure them out today. This is a very deep (and logical, and realistic, and scientific) thought.