The best way to understand something is to compare .
We begin to understand something when we admit that we dont understand it at all to begin with ...
What is a plant?
What is a stone?
What is an animal?
In spite of all the others things related to the thing we want to understand and with which it compare...In spite of what we know....We must admit we dont understand it...
Comparison is a scaffold to a place where there is no more bar to the ladder...
Then we immerse ourself in the thing we want to understand.... We experiment it with all our being... After comparing the plant with the stone and the animal, we begin to understandding it by reading it like a meaning of his own....
We connect to it, forgetting everything else ... We see it for the first time then...Like children do....
Understanding is not a translation in a language....It is a peak experience with no language...language is like a path throwing us on the mountain...We compared all the paths forgetting about the apex and what is over it and around us already... Meaning is not the letter...
Color are not "information" but a new state of being....Colors cant compared to anything.... All that exist is colors...Or sounds... or tastes... Or etc....
And reality and illusion are only opposite alternative when we compared things...My brain is not in a vat informed to create this precise illusion... The spirit/soul is not a brain...No more than an antenna and a filter are a musical concert....
We are all connected through love with a meaning experience which exceed knowledge and understanding...
To know we must compare, we live and we absorb something, to understand we must forgot and we must give off everything and ourself to, we exhale and die ...
In life it is a musical rythm...A respiration....It is love...
Then yes to know that something exist we must compare, we must absorb it, but if we want to understand, we must no more compare but forget about any comparison, we give ourself completely to it...
It is the reason why "sin" is necessary and meaningful....Forgetfulness is necessary too...
Sleep help ideas...
Dreams live between what compare and what cannot compare...
And love encompass all dreams...
Understanding is not knowledge, and knowledge isnot science, and science isnot technology...
We know the prime numbers but we dont understand them yet...We know a dog but we dont understrand it yet....
It takes love and forgetfulness to understand... Meaning is not so much meaningful at first ...
Comparison pertain to the prosaic mode, metaphor pertain to the poetic mode...
Metaphor is deeper than comparison... But contemplative silence is much deeper...