 It occurred to me that, in this country anyway, we’ve been hearing a lot about “pyramid schemes“. I was thinking of the parallel between such a scheme and ‘single minded knowing‘. The pyramid scheme is based on the impossible promise of more, somewhat similar to the motivations of a self reaching forward in time, in the hopes of consolidating more around it, and filling its ‘hollow’ and separation.
As Rinpoche says, “Based on the founding story of the self and the narraÂtive structures it supports, a form of understanding arises that could be called ‘single-minded’. Whereas the ‘perceiver’ observes from moment to moment, the self sweeps each new ‘momentary’ image or event into the flow of the founding story’s narrative, continuously sustaining and reaffirming the narrative. Each new ‘experience’ is assigned a place within a web of needs, interests, situational patterns, and emotional reactions.” LOK p.174-5
Like an inverted pyramid, the self comes-out at a point in time, through the founding story, ‘I am here‘, (the Witness feels it, the narrator tells it), and from that point attempts to freeze time, space, and a world, to build the upside down pyramid scheme of associations and referrals… just a thought.
David
