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Piet,
Seems to me that all
the contemplative
methods are designed to reacquaint us with what we already have but
don't know
we have. That's why I mentioned learning to not-do something we don't
need to
do.
You mentioned quite a
few ways of
expressing "hidden knowing" and all of them engage a sense of
paradox. Perhaps it's our intellectual discomfort with paradox that
keeps us
from seeing what's already there? I've expanded on exactly that theme
in my
recent personal journal entries.
It's as if logic tells
us that
"paradox" means "obscure," whereas it really means getting
hung up on a language problem. I'd suggest that in the unobscured world
there
are no paradoxes. The clear seeing you referred to is obscured by
linguistic
paradoxes. We need to stop chasing the paradoxes.
Consciousness itself is
a linguistic
paradox. Language tells us it's a "thing" so we keep looking for it.
Infinite
regress = paradox. The Looker looking for the Looker looking for the
Looker...,
et cetera. But let go of the paradox and consciousness JUST IS. There's
not
an "it" to find. There is no "Looker" to find it.