Piet's Summary
This is it. Right here,
right now, the completeness that the working hypothesis talks about
must be at
hand, but closer than `at hand' since that would still suggest a sense
of
distance. This is it. Everything that is given, together with givenness
itself,
is it.
This is it.
There is no
way to look for it, no path, no possibility to search for it. Searching
implies
that something is hidden, something that needs to be discovered. How
can
completeness by covered? What would there be left to cover it?
Completeness is.
Language falters, but is can show is to is. This is it.
Responses.
Thanks,
Frank, and
you're welcome! Yes, it is of crucial importance not to stop too early
in the
investigation. I try to tell myself that, too. I know we all have the
tendency,
after yet another deep insight, to conclude: ``ah, this is what all
those
people have been talking about in the past.'' And while each new
insight may
well be genuine, stopping there isn't. As soon as we stop there, the
insight
turns into a memory, a dried leaf in a book. Insights are to be
appreciated,
not to be possessed. This is one of the hardest things for human beings
to get
used too. And to make matters (seemingly) even more difficult, we
shouldn't
continue our investigation either! Continuing to search can go on
forever. The
challenge is to STOP, not to stop at an insight, and not to continue
looking
for the next insight, but to STOP the whole process of catching and
letting go.
This is impossible to explain into words. But words can act as a
pointer, as a
koan, like what is used in zen. Each zen koan has this flavor: don't
stop and
don't move on. STOP.
Yes, Jake,
we are all
looking for wonder, for magic, happy to find glimpses of it, sad when
they seem
out of reach. But the real magic is the IS of each and any situation,
that
which lets the situation appear to arise. The wonder of IS is the most
amazing
wonder, and it is right here, never hidden.
Thanks,
Miles, for your
wonderful description of unconditional love, not conditioned even by a
lover or
a loved one. Nicole, your `how' question points in the direction of
this
unconditional love.