How accurate are they in aligning us with the truth of how things are? How would we know? How much time do we spend in emptiness, stillness, silence? How do we evaluate what we perceive/sense by opening ourselves to what arises in emptiness, stillness, silence? How different are the world of silence and the world of noise? In what way does the world of noise impose itself (It’s reality) upon the world of silence?

Perform your own experiments. Explore your own experiences. What differences are there between how we see things and how we are supposed to see things? Expected to see things? How do we determine how things are? Where do we have difficulty determining how things are? Whose idea about how things are carries the most weight in our determining how things are? Who says so? What makes us think they know what they are talking about?