Piet's Summary

This last week I noticed more clearly how I still tend to treat the notion of `all is complete' as a story, a fantasy, a tale. I saw more clearly the need to jump into it, rather than to watch it. We tend to be mesmerized by wonderful stories, listening, watching, whether sitting around a camp fire or watching tv. Yet the challenge is to engage, test, try out, rather than just watch.

So instead of watching the world through rose colored glasses, in which everything appears more `complete' than it is, the real challenge is to shift from believing/assuming completeness, to asking ourselves with complete dedication: what can `completeness' be, how can it BE???

My response to what Jake wrote is: yes, you are right, what we see around us is indeed far from perfect, so-called meditative experiences can typically be interpreted as particular ways our brain react and in that sense are not that different from every-day experiences, yes, all that is true. So …? We will have to look elsewhere! And without a `we' doing the looking! And not later, but right now. It's nowhere to be found in "the world around you" -- that's already too far away. It is much closer, right here. How to see it? That's the question that the wh engages with. Engage!