Mokita

MOKITA: a Papua New Guinean word in the Kivila language, spoken on the largest of the Trobriand Islands Kiriwina, which describes the concept of "truth we all know but agree not to talk about."

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So much has transpired in the last two months, I feel...no, I know, that I am hovering on the brink of great transformation.
The year to come holds nothing but mystery for me, in the most profound sense.
And - I'm a control freak - so accepting the "not knowing" place that I am in right now is KILLING ME.

Well, ok, obviously it's NOT killing me. Here I am musing and typing....

I have been thinking a lot about truth of late.
TRUTH.
I'm not sure I know entirely what that is. The more I think about Truth, the more slippery it seems. I can look back at various points in my life, when I felt I was speaking the truth....and years later, that "truth" has changed. Ah - so perhaps then, truth is not absolute...

Here's a definition:

"The word truth has a variety of meanings, from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular.[1] The term has no single definition about which a majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree, and various theories and views of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; what things are truthbearers capable of being true or false; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute."

Well - if there is no single definition about which a majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree...then I suppose I shouldn't feel so bad about struggling with my own definition...

Ah - but, perhaps that is both what is comes down to, and what causes us wee humans no end of conflict. We are each responsible for our own definition of "Truth"....which will obviously never entirely line up with another person's definition. My friend Kate said the other day, "Feelings are the only truth"....Certainly I have had strong feelings in a particular moment and then have chosen to ignore those feelings (some "inner truth"), only to suffer for it later, to look back and say, "I ignored the truth in that moment."

But don't feelings also change over time?
If I "feel" that some guy is an asshole....does that make it TRUE?
If more than one person shares the same feeling, or thought about something - does that make it TRUE?

I suppose when it comes to my own definition, the one that I'm tossing about these days anyways, it comes down to some "deep inner KNOWINGNESS"...which is to say an AWARENESS...of what? An awareness of "that which IS", and so in BEING, it must be TRUE.

Of course, being mortal, I can't ever know if anything is ABSOLUTELY TRUE, or universally true...but maybe I can have an awareness of something in this reality...unti, of course,l it shifts. Or not.

Anyhow - it brings me back to this word, "mokita" - "truth we all know but agree not to talk about".
I just LOVE new words!!!
Why would we not talk about a particular truth, I wonder? What about, "the truth will out"? I wonder if it means that there are things which we all have a certain awareness of that are so obvious that we need NOT talk about them? Or perhaps we agree not to talk about a certain truth because to say it out loud would cause someone hurt? There's also the notion that the act of creation is the three stage process of: thought, word, and deed. If our thoughts bring us an awareness of a "truth", then saying so out loud might make it MORE TRUE...and then we're 2/3s the way to "deed" and the creation of a new reality...

I don't know.

I continue to investigate TRUTH....and have very little to report back at this time.