Get an identity

Subjective, objective, subjectivity...
We are all individuals living among other individuals.
We have a subjective identity. This identity has by itself a surface, which is the objective part of ourselves. The surface can be seen by others. This surface can be elaborated in order to give a certain impression to the others.
The objective identity can be different from the subjective one. It can be a mask that is hiding the "real" person behind.
The objective identity can be changed more or less easily by changing style of clothes, home, car and many other things.
The "real" person behind can also change, and should change as a result of systematic study and effort. That is the existential function of being human.
Can we get to know the real person - the dynamic subjective subject - by using hostile means?
These days there are so many ways to get information about people. Video cameras on many places, with face recognition. Everything done on the computer, cell phone, Internet, in e-mail and so on can be observed.
This is hostile. It is distrust from those who happens to have the task of analysing these extreme amounts of material.
But can it disclose truth? If the means used are very damaging and negative, the picture will be of something damaged and negative. This was not there before the investigation. This is not the original truth. It is an effect of the hostility.

Cognition

We try to understand the external reality. It is called cognition. If we make a correct observation it is called valid cognition.
We organize our knowledge in mind under concepts. It is a natural filing system.
These basic functions can give diverse result. The result we prefer is decided by our attitude and intention.
So truth is not a simple thing. There are many truths as there are many ways to see the world. Many attitudes can be supported by valid cognition.
If we feel for war, that can be supported by valid cognition.
If we feel for peace, that can be supported by valid cognition.
The decisive factor is in our intention. If we want to see other persons and reality as nice, it can be supported by valid cognition.
Reality allows for a wide choice of attitudes. So we have to make up our mind ourselves. What is best, really?

From mind only to only mind

It is quite normal be a mind only-person. When we try to understand an external world we are mind only. Typical mind only is natural science. Researchers figure out how material things work. Thanks to this knowledge we (no, not me personally, but we as culture) know how to build roads, bridges, airplanes and a lot more.

We experience an external world existing there on its own right. This is denied by mind only. The world is a projection, but the projection is done by a real mind. So if two or more minds see a thing in the same way, that is true.

But all of the external reality is not stable as the material reality. Some of the most important factors are very fluctuating and difficult to describe. People are fluctuating. And music.

In music it is popular doing top ten lists. The ten best songs ever ... There are many lists but none of them is really true. According to mind only, these lists are only subjective. Your list might be true for you but not for me.

We know this and top ten lists are not really a matter of life and death. But people might be.

In the old days, police tried to figure out who killed who. It was difficult enough, but it was about material things - knives, poison, shotguns and the like.

But now one task is to prevent terrorism. A terrorist deed is material, but the planning is not material.

If we hunt terrorists with mind only view we will find nothing until it is too late. But we can do a lot of harm while trying to expose something which does not exist.

If mind only gives no result it is a risk that the view changes to Madhyamaka prasangika. Then the investigator creates a world of subject - object and nothing more. Even the most harmless old age pensioner can look like a terrorist if the looker is fearful for terrorists.

So if someone in power glides into Madhyamaka prasangika it might be very dangerous for those around. The objective observation is changed into subject-object.

Normally we see the worst parts of our personality as external. We do not acknowledge bad or weak aspects of ourselves, but see those aspects as belonging to others.

If we know it is a projection, we can deal with the problems in our own mind. If we believe it is objective truth, we start persecuting innocent people.