On the Nature of Trust

 https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/20/kamala-kabbalah/#comment-225326

On Trust

I notice the use of 'trust' for something else - as are all words in an era of lies and deceits. Confucius was once asked 'what he would do - if in the reigns of power', to which he replied - 'I would redeem the dictionary'.

False currency delivers unto evil. I cannot overstate the value of knowing (rather than thinking to know), the meaning of what we accept and use as currency of definition and exchange.

Clearly - to me at least - I cannot hold the world or anyone in it, to my terms and conditions or 'the world as I want it to be'. That I may not be aware of setting as terms and conditions - until I am disappointed, let down, betrayed or abandoned.

So I take responsibility for such choices as part of my capacity to meet or be met, know and be known by others - as within myself.

Trust in life, trust in our self, and through that, trust in the being of others is a 'relationship' within life.

Loss or breakdown of trust and communication operates a 'broken' relationship or conflict that may be expressed in terms of withholding or non-association - or masked over in terms of mutual agreements of conflict avoidance as rules, terms and conditional demands of social code.

The two commandment associated with Jesus point to unbroken or unconflicted relationship with life, self and other as one. When a true foundation is lost, we experience fragmentation - and a humpty dumpty of the driven need to impose order coercively.

I see the word 'trust' being used by to mean blind acceptance or compliance to 'conditional love'. I will love you as long and only if you act so as to meet the rules that don't break or threaten to undermine my conditions.

A social credit system of sacrificing individual response to agreed normals that carry penalty for breaking.

Post-truth society is post trust society. We cannot trust life, ourselves or each other without coercive controls

I exercise discernment to the point of trusting who I am in relation to whoever or whatever. Political sideshow operates the narrative by which to mask active agenda.

Gabbard said she was on an exposing corruption ticket. Is that possible for more than a brief stint where the system itself is corrupt? Is all corruption or 'enemy' out there in the 'target'. Is the ground we think we stand on as solid as we think?

I don't trust the use of 'we' when it claims to coopt or speak for freedom.

So I read it as you talking for yourself.

Regaining living truth as a foundation of trust from which to act and in which to live is the release of masking virtue set over conflicts of broken communication.

In what do we trust? If we put it outside ourself as a form of self-evasion, then we look for - and give power to others and external agents in respect of making our self and world, so that when our idols topple, there is a power to break and crush who we have made ourselves to be. The idea of putting trust in the 'living', was that of open relational presence as distinct from image, concept and model, or indeed any system based on them.

Fear of betrayal or of betraying, seeks to mask out areas of potential conflict so as not to risk reliving them. Areas of masked virtue thus become the acting out of a limiting and limited substitution for life that betrays us because it we entrust our life to a blind and hollow parody of self-evasion set in pre-emptive sacrifice as 'salvation' as a herd mentality under narrative identity.

Do I trust what we have collectively made of life?

Only to serve as a recognition of error calling for correction.

I cannot correct another. But I can allow the release of what I make them to who they are. If I want freedom, I have to extend it to another, even if I currently cannot understand, appreciate or join with their choices that arise from their own conditionings, beliefs and perceptions.

If I judge. I am judged. The mask of virtue is stolen from vice, not from God or Truth, from which 'stealing' is self-illusion - be-lived and defended as real.

I experience the feelings or emotional results of the attempt to maintain a life and world on my own terms - and engage willingness to own this as real feedback by which to recognise and release what no longer truly serves me. For I trust that truth holds a quality of service or support and guidance for being - and grow it by giving and receiving it in such moments of opportunity or indeed willingness.