Piet's Summary
This last week was both
very busy
and very rich for me. It was busy because I had various visitors at
work, from
astrophysics colleagues to friends of WoK, and it was rich because of a
number
of new insights, triggered partly by the WoK friends who dropped by,
including
Jake, Nicole, and Miles.
I saw more
deeply into the
meaning of wu-wei, not-doing. The "-ing" of "doing", the
very notion of anything "happening" or anything "xxx-ing"
for that matter, for any xxx, is what comes in the way of seeing
reality.
The working
hypothesis tells us
that time does not exist, that it does not function the way we think it
does. However,
stating it that way is rather abstract. The same message gets a lot
more umph
for me when I look around me, and tell myself that perhaps there is no
happening at all. There is presence, yes. There is not just a big void
or
blackness. There is . . . what? Something? Not necessarily. Is
something
arising, changing, disappearing? Well, it seems that way, but . . .
perhaps not
necessarily so. Can I drop the addiction to happening, and focus on
presence
instead?
It depends.
The I whom I think I
am cannot. The I that is part of the story of there being a world with
all kind
of things going on, that I cannot drop time, because it is woven into
time. But
perhaps that I does not exist, because the story doesn't exist.
The I whom I
really am, according
to the working hypothesis, also cannot drop an addiction to happening,
since
that I has never had that addiction.
So the
answer is a resounding no.
There is no I there that can drop an addiction to happening. So
whatever
addicted I there would be, would be stuck. But fortunately there is no
such I,
according to the wh.
This may all
sound philosophical,
or even nonsensical, but it is my attempt to describe
phenomenologically what I
can now remember as having happened on several occasions this week,
while
working with the wh. The sense of liberation and ease is hard to put
into
words; art would be a far better tool, or just a gesture.
Piet