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WoK Practice Intensive: April 3, 2007


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Rod's Quarterly Summary

A clear thread runs through all three of my Monthly Summaries: How the Working Hypothesis of Completeness intertwines with the alternate states of consciousness that we experience in daily life & during meditation.

I began by characterizing those two states as The Jagged Issues Of The Day versus The Sea Of Tranquility, the former being manifest in Linear-Causal thought and the latter in Tranquil-Holistic mindfulness.

I then explored the implications of this approach to the WH in terms of Consciousness (Consciousness is ALWAYS complete, yet NEVER complete), Self (the Map is not the Territory), Equilibrium (the Future is chaotic & the Past is quiescent), and Meaning (Rational-why-meaning & Felt-immersion-meaning). All of these aspects of the WH pointed toward a Polymorphous Consciousness with infinite variety, infinite alternative states.

Thus...the WH of Completeness is indeed true when I recognize that the only boundaries are my own limited ways of knowing. But paradoxically, the WH is also false in the sense that Completeness can never be "complete." Consciousness is always unfolding, and Self is always exploring alternative ways of being & new ways of knowing. So there is really nothing to do except to be in the world (in whatever manner arises), and to know that this is true.

The Radical Shift that is implicit in the WH occurs in knowing that nothing has changed, even though "knowing that nothing has changed" means that everything has changed.

... from Rod


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