Seeing the reality as it is

I think one of the most important skills in life is looking at reality as it is.

It might seem very simple to read about it or hear about it, but I think this is one of the most difficult things to do because our mind tends to project a lot of things based on our own biases and how we have perceived things in the past. Our memories, our experiences have a role to play in how we see the world.

It helps us understand it from our perspective, but it definitely is not the best way - because the reality in itself is very unique and dynamic.

It works as per its own will, what I would say the laws of nature or the universe. Thinking it from that standpoint, it's like there is something which is happening in real but you see it totally otherwise or you don't see it at all because of your own blind spots.

Now when I think about it, how do you see the reality as it is? I think over the years, the two things that I have learned for myself that really, really help you do it would be:

1. Being calm in which Meditation (helps a lot)
2. Self-reflection and questioning

Because only then can you reflect upon the biases that you're holding against the reality of what it is really trying to show you. If you don't question - and you don't question yourself, it's next to impossible that you look at the reality as it is.

It will be very difficult to understand the cause-and-effect relationship amongst the things which are working in the nature.