Piet's Summary

What is the minimal way to work with the working hypothesis without working, without making it a project? After focusing on the working hypothesis, I tried to let openness be. To try to be open would put myself too much into the picture. A letting. A letting be. A letting be open.

Whenever memories and anticipations would appear, I tried to just gently let them be, neither encouraging nor discouraging myself from letting more of the same arise. When I would enjoy taking an open stance, I would remind me that it is not a matter of taking a stance, and that I'd better drop "taking" and "stance", so that I could let "open" be liberated into a more open openness.

Responses:

Jake, you asked me to say more about what I meant when I wrote "We will have to look elsewhere! And without a 'we' doing the looking! And not later, but right now." I'm not sure whether I can say more, because I was trying to point beyond what we normally cover with words. One way to try to look elsewhere is to try to be very aware when you look where you normally look. When you become more and more sensitive to the "I" that is looking, and to the "where" where you are looking, and to what "looking" really is, you can begin to see how limited our normal way of looking is. We habitually use only such a small sliver of all that is openly there . . . and the more we notice that, the more a sense of elsewhere appears, but it is not really elsewhere, and a different sense of looking, but not by the old sense of `we' that we've associated with. At first it's like finding more and more degrees of freedom.