There’s something strange about this new chapter, the start of our new theme, “Knowledge Ability”. \u00c2\u00a0It reminds me of Euclidean Geometry in its systematic analysis of perception, but instead of imposing axioms from outside (e.g. “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”), it starts form a zero-gravity reaching out: projecting, reflecting, reacting, and describes how a self and a world are built up from there. \u00c2\u00a0Kind of like the guy in the Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of Life paddling a boat with no rudder? \u00c2\u00a0This chapter strikes me as somewhat different than others: those in which our noses are rubbed in our unsubstantiated beliefs about, say, linear time, or those in which we are provided with stirring exhortations about how our lives can be richer, freer, deeper, if we allow them to be. \u00c2\u00a0Instead, in this chapter, there is a bold setting forth from nowhere at all. \u00c2\u00a0Rather like when we get up and wash the dishes and thereby feel less depressed, or when we take a step out of confusion and find ourselves on a new journey. — Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s something strange about this new chapter, the start of our new theme, “Knowledge Ability”. \u00c2\u00a0It reminds me of Euclidean Geometry in its systematic analysis of perception, but instead of imposing axioms from outside (e.g. “the shortest distance between two … Continue reading