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WoK Practice Intensive: Feb 25, 2007


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Jake's Summary

The WH tells us that all is complete, but when I hold a concept in my mind it seems to be far from complete, so it might be a good idea to stop rigidly-holding a concept in my mind. For every concept or idea that appears in my mind, I tell myself that this is not the full picture. I find myself jumping from concept to concept where at each step I feel I am closer to reality. Instead of doing it step by step I also tried to do it continuously and found that I was 'flowing' toward reality.

After doing this most of the week, one day, I needed to remember a name. I was going through a mental list of names and I decide to find the name by another way. I tried to do a relaxed-thinking without really waiting for the answer and the name 'pop-up' in my mind. This is connected to Piet's comparison between Eureka moments and the WH. Many Eureka happened to me while I was relaxing after thoughtful thinking about a problem. The WH tells us to stop trying while not waiting for something to happen.

Here is two pop-up-thoughts that pop-up as a thought in a pop:

-At Every moment we can go in the unknown, although stranger that the known, the unknown is much safer.

-Working with the WH in the day at moments when 'it is not the best moment to be working with the WH' are the most valuable. For example, thinking about the WH when you are running late and stressed.


Responses

Frank about your question, 'What is it like to be this knowingness?', I was wondering what it is for you to be unknowingness?

Piet, the way I understand your paradox, is that the WH is much more radical that those Eureka moments, that there is no problem to solve and no information to gather and that we are a zero-moment away from the WH's-Eureka. In fact, there is really no need for a WoK intensive since all is so accessible.


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