WHAT IS TRUST?

TRUST - A TERM USED MUCH TOO LOOSELY!

Is trust a word you use to describe how you feel about your bank manager because you trust him with your money that he will not run away with it? In that case, trust is something that is reinforced by the law. The law stops the bank manager from running away with your money not your trust of the bank manager.

Is trust a word that you use for the person who you asked to get you tickets for a concert? Well, maybe, this person is doing a favor to you by a moral or ethical reason that this persons parent has instilled into them as a child. The person will get the tickets because he or she said so and her or she has made a moral commitment to you.

Is trust the word a soldier uses when he describes his relationship with his comrades? To some extent this is true but loyalty and training becomes part of the equation.

Trust can be interpreted in many ways.

Real trust is very uncommon. The true meaning of trust can only be found when individuals willingly enter a state of mind that will allow trust to blossom or mature. There are many levels of trust and all of these levels can be achieved by creating a euphoric, blissful, non-static, barrier free state of mind. This level cannot be forced, it has to be searched out in the mind of each individual and the path has to be taken by the individual alone. Someone who has been there can help with the journey but it is still a journey that must be taken alone.

Complete trust cannot be achieved on it's own. Complete trust will not stand-alone without other feelings being involved. Trust is only a word with no meaning until it is supported by truth.

I am going to call this the TRUST/TRUTH/CHAIN.

Trust cannot become an entity unto it's own without truth being part of trust. For any relationship to be trustful, truth must be part of it. Part truth will only create part trust. This is where barriers are thrown up to disguise the truth that in turn disguises trust. It seems to be human nature to throw up barriers to the truth. We are taught at a very early age that there can be advantages to withholding the truth of ones feelings or of knowledge of something. Usually it is the perception that the real truth can be used later for bargaining or to inflict an insult upon another person. Also, secrets are kept back behind barriers in the trust/truth chain. A secret may keep the individual from getting into a self-destructive relationship with the person whom you are shielding the truth from.

OH what a mess the human mind can get itself into.

Just consider a society where no one holds back the truth. Wouldn't that differ so greatly from today's culture?

For the unique individuals who can reach the true trust/truth level there will naturally occur another level. It is a level that very few people in history ever reach. It is the highest level of the trust/truth chain.

I am going to call this the TRUST/TRUTH/LOVE CHAIN.

There is no greater state of mind a mortal human being can achieve. The only experience one can reach after the trust/truth/love level is the feeling that many people have reported about when they have had near death experiences and have seen and felt a love and compassion beyond words and explanation.

The love in the trust/truth/love chain can be of many different levels also. It can be an emotional and physical love. It can be a closeness that is beyond friendship but still not associated with a physical/sexual relationship. It can be a love that is between sexes .It can be a love between a mother and daughter or father and son or a love between two friends of the same sex or an intense friendship between two of the opposite sex.

The highest level of love is so very uncommon. It is a level where both parties seem to know what the other is feeling or thinking all the time, even if they are miles apart. This level of love is the most compassionate, blissful, unrelenting and infinite love capable in the universe. Classic love stories thrive on our minds willingness and dreams to reach this level and many times the authors of these stories can produce a momentary acceptance of a vision of complete T/T/L Chain. But alas, the human mind closes the T/T/L Chain down by throwing up barriers. The authors of these classic love stories have an insight into the true T/T/L Chain and they have tried as best as they can to pass on their own feeling or the feelings that they know are correct to their readers.

There is hope; a level of consciousness, of mind, of bliss can be achieved through T/T/L. It is up to the individual who wishes to peruse it. I believe a combination of verbal therapy, touch therapy and message therapy can help induce the T/T/L Chain but again it is up to how much the individual wants to achieve it. Maybe, someday the human race will enter into a society that emphasizes T/T/L rather than deceit, mistruth, and all the other feelings and correspondence we use to reach our selfish and greedy existence.

A true T/T/L society is where trust is paramount because everyone is truthful with one another. And if everyone is truthful with one another then love will prevail.

Once the barriers of distrust, untruth and hate disappear, something else has to take its place.

I often wonder about the animate kingdom where instincts take precedence. Or do they? Canadian geese and swans are but a few species that mate for life. If the mate dies, usually the other mate dies a short time later. There must be something in these animals that goes beyond procreation. Maybe in the animal kingdom, love between the mates is paramount. Their minds have not developed enough to let or require trust and truth become part of their equation for ultimate existence.

To the reader:
The T/T/L Chain described in this essay can be expanded upon by discussion and I encourage it. The human mind is a universe until itself. As infinite as the cosmic universe.

Article courtesy: Murray Brown