Fix typo in "Disposable Habits" article and add new article "What the Alcoholic Sees"

Author: dwijbavisi

content/articles/2026/04/disposable-habits.md

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 For someone like me - an introvert - the ability to quit is just as important
 as the ability to start. I am not looking for a well-rounded life filled with
-consistent habits. I am just looking for the freedom to drop whatever is not
+consistent habits. I am just looking for the freedom to drop whatever is no
 longer true to my inner self.
 
 **TLDR;** I do not have a collection of hobbies; I have a collection of

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+# What the Alcoholic Sees
+
+For a long time, I thought *Maya* was just some dusty, abstract philosophical
+term for "illusion".
+
+Last month I heard a story that changed how I look at the world. It involves a
+simple analogy about an alcoholic person, but it points to a truth that is deeply
+unsettling.
+
+## The Man Who Sees Eight Fingers
+Imagine a man who has had too much to drink. He holds up his hands and looks at
+it. To him, it is an absolute fact: **He sees eight fingers**.
+
+We stand next to him and we tell him he is wrong. There are only four fingers.
+
+The man was not lying. In his mind, at that very moment, those eight fingers are
+as real as the ground he is standing on. His vision is telling him one thing,
+and our vision is telling us another. We call him *drunk* and ourselves *sober*
+to explain the difference. But the man is convinced of his own truth.
+
+This leads to a question that we almost never ask:
+**What is the guarantee that our *four* fingers are the absolute truth?**
+
+## The Majority is not Always Right
+We believe we are right simply because most people see what we see. We have
+agreed on a *normal* way of looking at things.
+
+But if the entire world were born with the vision of that alcoholic, eight fingers
+would be the truth taught in schools. The person who saw only four fingers would
+be considered the one with the problem.
+
+This shows us, what we call reality, is often just a common agreement based on
+how our human senses work.
+
+## Why Our Senses Cannot Be Trusted
+We think our eyes and ears show us the world exactly as it is. But do they?
+
+We see only certain colors. Many animals see colors we cannot even imagine. We
+see objects as solid. But science tells us they are mostly hollow atoms. We see
+the world in a way that helps us survive, not necessarily in a way that is "True".
+
+## The Search for the Constant
+In Indian schools of thought, specifically in Advaita Vedanta, truth, or *satya*,
+is categorized into three levels to help us understand this confusion:
+
+- **Pratibhasik Satya** (Apparent Reality) - This is the level of alcoholic
+seeing eight fingers. It is ideal only to the individual experiencing the illusion
+at that moment.
+
+- **Vyavaharik Satya** (Empirical Reality) - This is the *sober* world we all
+agree on. It is the level of four fingers, gravity and the physical world. It is
+still dependent on our human senses and can be contradicted by deeper experiences.
+
+- **Paramarthik Satya** (Absolute Reality) - This is the ultimate truth that
+never changes and cannot be contradicted. It does not change whether you are
+drunk, sober, dreaming or enlightened.
+
+So, what stays the same? The only thing that does not change is the **Awareness**.
+Whether you see four fingers or eight, the **You** that is witnessing the sight
+is the same. Or, is it not?  :)
+
+**TLDR;** We spend our whole lives arguing about our opinions, our beliefs and
+our facts. We are so certain that our *four* is better than someone else's *eight*.
+
+---
+
+- **Author**: Dwij Bavisi <<dwij.bavisi@crabwire.net>>
+- **Published**: April 08, 2026, Project bloatware
+- **Conceived**: March 07, 2026, was watching random Youtube videos on Sunday morning