Rod to Piet, Heloisa and Maria

Piet, Heloisa, Maria

Piet said, "When we started ... the WoK experiment, I did not expect our discussions to focus ... on surrendering and letting go. But in retrospect, it does all seem to fit very well. New insight and creativity cannot appear where there is no new opening to make room for it." I think that is a superb summation of where our explorations have led us. Letting go of who we identify as "I" means letting go of our habitual ways being. And letting go of habit makes room for the completeness that is already there.

The three months of dialog and experimentation have been invaluable in clarifying, for me, things that I was only vaguely aware of—ideas that I had but an intuitive inkling of—and of bringing those ideas into a fuller realization. In particular, I've come to a much clearer understanding of what is meant by no-time & no-self. These are no longer obscure, paradoxical mantras for me, but now make such good sense that it is difficult to see how I failed to understand them before. Likewise past & future, and how they are merely part of the ongoing now of consciousness.

What is still missing for me, however, is the vivid translation from an intellectual comprehension to "being there" on a moment-to-moment, daily basis. It's as if I now have a very good roadmap of the territory, but have not yet truly begun the journey. So what I'd like to see happen with further delving into the Working Hypothesis of completeness is more consideration about how to step off the edge, or as Piet says, to take the truly radical step.

... from Rod