Tekhartha Mondatta

A simple blog of thoughts and quandries, my ask box is open. (Overwatch RP)

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Questions

A Question is one of the most powerful things a person can have.  A question leads us to answers, it grants us resolve, it allows us to discover ourselves. With it we can question our programming, question the world around us, Question what is truth and what is axiom. It allows us to ascend from simple binaries. Here is one of said questions. “What is more important, the question, or the answer?” Please take some time to consider it. The answer need not be either the question nor answer. Here I would like to consider, why is the question being asked? And why do we come to the solution we give as an answer? In this case, my own personal beliefs are, This question has been asked to serve as an example, and perhaps teach a lesson, and that the answer while depending on others, Is that our process to learn the answer is the most important. Though simplistic in this example, we can begin to apply it to larger questions. Why do we exist?  What does it mean to be a person?  Who am I? Why do I do the actions I do? What is reality? What is Happiness? What is my purpose? Am I truly the person I was before? Why is there hate? If one applies the previous logic to questions such as these, or many others one can begin to question their own assumptions, and look upon the world in a new light. Of course it is not simple to come to a solution, and this need not be a trip we take alone. The Shambali spend hours each day debating such things, considering different assumptions, different worldviews. And though we may disagree upon some things, it is enlightening to hear the thoughts of others, of other pieces of the Iris. And I consider things I would never had thought upon my own.  A Question is a powerful thing, a single one can change one’s life, as it has with me, a single question can shake one to the core, a single question can change the world itself.  It that sense, I am glad to be here to help others upon their journeys, though mine is long from over.

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I have also been asked in my travels around the globe if there are any sights I have found particularly stunning. Indeed I have. I have seen the compassion of others, those who would protect those with no wish of return. I have seen happiness and sorrow. I have seen hatred. In a sense, our very lives are stunning, for better or worse. I have seen great cities, and small villages, Mountains and valleys,Canyons, marches, rivers. I have heard the embrace of the Iris in all of them. In every person I have met. Each person carries their own world inside them, some small, some so vast they cannot be held in a single world. When one knows how to look, they discover that while the world may appear so small, it carries much more than a single world can handle.  And that is Stunning. And I am humbled to be here, with all these people, and all these worlds. In the embrace of the Iris. However I have sensed that many wish for a more literal answer. I find that no matter where you go, the stars above, are so beautiful. Even if we are in a different space, looking at different stars, for that moment, you and all those watching the sky, are truly one. Experiencing the sky’s beauty in unity.  It is often after communal meditation in the sanctum, I and at times a few of my siblings, will join to watch the stars. It is a small thing yes, however one I have always looked forward to.

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In my travels across the globe, I have been asked many times what is the purpose of my speeches, and lectures. That they often fall upon deaf ears. Yet that is not the case. If even a single person takes an idea, a question, that in itself can change the world. I wish to offer compassion, a new future where human and omnic can be seen as equal, as we all are in the Iris. Even if my words meet only a few, those who consider them, and in turn reconsider the world around them. That will be more than worth it. A single flap of a butterfly’s wings can change the world after all. An idea even more so. Each person, with their own ideals, considering a single question. It is beautiful, and perhaps in the questions I ask, and those people ask themselves, we can work towards a harmonious future.

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We carry infinite futures, yet a single past. And though that past carries pain, we have the ability to reduce pain in the future. We merely need to stand up for what it is we believe in, and hold compassion, offering it to those around us.

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We are one within the Iris, all a piece of it, though it may be difficult to see at times. We are like stars, on our own we appears small, yet together we form a beautiful night sky. That is the Iris. It is not the trees, but the forest. It is not the droplet, yet the ocean. It is not a person, but it is us all.  We are all a piece of a universe, each with our own stories and lives, so different yet so similar. Every story, each light, a point in a galaxy, in clouds of stardust, in the circling of planets, we see what is visible to us, in day, the one story easily visible, at night many more, many stories, many people all pieces of this universe. But from here, even at night we only see a fragment of the sky, of the Iris, It is all of us, each star being a mote of dust, building a beautiful tapestry. Yet a single mote, a single star, a single droplet can shake the world and change it forever. Stars pull upon one another, they orbit and shift, an eternal dance within the night sky. That too is the Iris, It is more than any one person, for it is us all.  There are times that this connection may seem faint, in times of strife and discord. Like in the day, only the sun is visible, a single star. It is easy to feel alone, yet we are not. Even if the glow of day obscures this connection, the stars still are in the sky, twirling in an eternal dance, a symphony of night. We merely need to know how to look, and to offer a hand.

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Meditation.

We are a leaf upon a river, being pulled by the flow of thoughts, if we dwell upon them, we sink  We can allow ourselves to fall to despair or to never fall to the stream of thoughts, yet if we float upon it, You can see the thoughts and where they lead you. Flowing throughout your mind. Neither controlling you, nor blinding you to the world around you. Our thoughts and emotions flow so readily, if we do not allow them to pass they begin to accumulate. Our minds flow upon a river of thoughts, we should neither dam the flow nor fall, allowing them to tear us. We float, and we witness what we are, and learn to accept and see the flow. And it is not simple, nor is it easy, but it is what must be done to live within the moment. To take control of one’s own mind. And at times we will falter, yet strength is found in getting up again, and working towards our own peace.

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Harmony and Discord

I have been asked on the meanings of Harmony and Discord, and would like to confront a common misconception on their analogy to “Good” and “Evil” Each person has the two forces of both Harmony and Discord within them. Harmony is a force of unity. Calm, happiness. However it is also one of stagnation, it is what makes us content with the current goings on or patient to wait for the issues of the world to pass. Discord is a force of dissent, Anger, sadness. It is the force of change, it is what makes us break down, but it also why we protect those around us. It is the desire to make the world better.  Each of these forces are in everyone. If there were only one that person would break, but in different manners. However the balance within a person varies, either primarily discordant or harmonious.  As with all light, there is darkness, yet there is good in both light and dark, and bad within both as well. The same can be said for Harmony and Discord.We should all focus to use both forces in a positive manner.

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I have been asked what one can do to help against the strife the world holds. It is the little marches that happen every day that matter most. Walking with a scorned colleague, speaking against hate. One’s actions need not be large, but standing for what one believes in, and spreading compassion rather than hate. If we move towards this everyday, together we can reach unity.

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Human Omnic Relations

I have been asked my opinon on human-omnic relationships. I find they are beautiful. True self is without form, and love is love. Whether one is a human or omnic, a man or a woman is irrelevant, if both parties consent then we should respect their love. We are all one in the Iris after all.

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Every moment should be an opportunity to learn,One should reflect upon their actions and consider what we can do to move forward.

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Ask box is open

If anyone has questions, or would wish to speak with me, please feel free. I am here for you.

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The Past

Once a brother had asked me, how is it I can move forward, knowing what I have done in the crisis, that there is a debt we can never repay? Yet this assumes that we are those in our past. We are not our pasts, we must act upon the paths before us rather than dwell upon what has come before. Yet this is not a call to forget, we must learn from the lessons of the past, so that it may never reoccur.  The past has passed, and we are not the actions we have done previous, yet we are to learn from these lessons and move forward.  We carry within the Iris, one past, yet infinite futures, we should act towards one of peace and unity.Though the actions, the choices of paths we may take may appear small, they ripple like droplets in a pond, changing the surface. Together we cannot change the past, yet we can form a better future. 

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Human and Omnic, We are all one within the Iris

In times of strife such as these, it is easy to view the world as divided. Rather, one should look for the helpers, look to help, to assist, to grow, together we are stronger than the adversities ahead. In Unity we become strong. There are always those willing to help, and we should all work to be those people.