Vmarco Posted September 16, 2014 For example: Once I got to really understand politics I quit voting. Once I got to really understand religion I quit religion. Once I got to really understand people I quit be so open with them. Once I got to really understand rush hour traffic I quit going home at that time. Once I got to really understand my family I quit being so family orientated. Once I got to really understand the media I quit being media-ted. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anoesjka Posted September 16, 2014 Ah, but how real is real understanding? You may never know if there isn't an understanding that's more real than that! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) Our individual understandings are special and unique. No one else can have exactly the same understandings as we have because we have lived different lives. One may or may not have similar understands as does Vmarco. But each is valid. Edited September 16, 2014 by Marblehead 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dust Posted September 16, 2014 Once I got to really understand that I really didn't understand... I smiled. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ValleyStream Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) Once i got to really started to understand Monkey Mind i stopped thinking.....and trancended time itself. Edited September 16, 2014 by ValleyStream 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 16, 2014 Don't get lost in space though, Okay? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ValleyStream Posted September 16, 2014 Don't get lost in space though, Okay? As the famous British author once said, "Not all those who wander are lost". 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anoesjka Posted September 16, 2014 We learn from being open to each other's understanding and that is very very important. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ValleyStream Posted September 16, 2014 Our individual understandings are special and unique. No one else can have exactly the same understandings as we have because we have lived different lives. One may or may not have similar understands as does Vmarco. But each is valid. Totally. I like to say, "Perspective is everything. Everything is defined by the observer. He observes relative to his perspective." 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 16, 2014 Totally. I like to say, "Perspective is everything. Everything is defined by the observer. He observes relative to his perspective." Yeah, I try to always speak from perspective as I claim that there are no absolutes. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mystique Enigma Posted September 16, 2014 and so a life time is spent on ones understanding .... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted September 16, 2014 For example: Once I got to really understand politics I quit voting. Once I got to really understand religion I quit religion. Once I got to really understand people I quit be so open with them. Once I got to really understand rush hour traffic I quit going home at that time. Once I got to really understand my family I quit being so family orientated. Once I got to really understand the media I quit being media-ted. The danger here is did one really understand, or did one learn that it disagrees with you and then dismiss it? Study enough, care enough and you can get a deeper understanding and connect. Study enough politics and you can find rare gems of people who are trying to make the world a better place. Study the best in religion and you can find value, practical and spiritual in many mystical traditions that run through them. Study rush hour and you find some routs are reverse commutes are better then others and actually move pretty well. Family knows all your buttons, but if treated with respect will help and be a basis of lifelong support. Media.. its optional, but I find it valuable to occasionally take the pulse on the right and left, and have a few sources that seem honest. It can be dangerous to ignore what you disagree with, there is stuff to learn from it, plus it keeps the mind sharp and juices flowing. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawei Posted September 16, 2014 Once I got to really understand rush hour traffic I quit going home at that time. There is great simplicity to behold here... life seems complex and yet we can find simplicity in our way. I drive my step-daughter to/fro the university each day... but she gets there early and gets picked up later than necessary for a simple reason... Once this small dot is connected to another point, others will reveal themselves... and it is dots everywhere waiting to be connected. After some time, it is just a picture; a flower, a cloud, or the fullness of emptiness itself. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Posted September 16, 2014 There seems to be a human process in place which makes us think getting a stronger magnifying glass to study the dots more closely will necessarily make the picture more clear when sometimes taking a step back makes all the difference... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawei Posted September 16, 2014 There seems to be a human process in place which makes us think getting a stronger magnifying glass to study the dots more closely will necessarily make the picture more clear when sometimes taking a step back makes all the difference... I think that may be Stage 1... a quasi-step in the direction of detachment... but ultimately we need to detach from our own idea, language, thought, mind, etc. It is a 'step back' in our minds; what we need is a step back from our minds. Once we let go of our senses we find there is another, deeper sense which can arise. Some call it an inner sense but it may as well be called the Dao-sense... or it is really De. At some point, the dots all combine and merge and there is just one dot which seems so big it makes up all things... and yet, that is but a Stage... The One Dot still waits for us to 'step back'. Whatever we see is yet waiting for us to step back. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted September 16, 2014 There is great simplicity to behold here... life seems complex and yet we can find simplicity in our way. I drive my step-daughter to/fro the university each day... but she gets there early and gets picked up later than necessary for a simple reason... Once this small dot is connected to another point, others will reveal themselves... and it is dots everywhere waiting to be connected. After some time, it is just a picture; a flower, a cloud, or the fullness of emptiness itself. You are getting pretty darned poetic on us here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawei Posted September 16, 2014 It was actually a sunday afternoon of pointillism (not poetry) on my mind... but pictures can be poetic too... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chang Posted September 16, 2014 The problem with understanding is that it is a building with many stories. Our understanding will grow with our consciousness and this holds true for the simplest of things. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vmarco Posted September 16, 2014 Thanks for the responses to: Once I got to really understand ________ I quit ________. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Infinity Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) Once I got to really understand who I am I loved... ∞ Edited September 16, 2014 by Infinity 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted September 16, 2014 There seems to be a human process in place which makes us think getting a stronger magnifying glass to study the dots more closely will necessarily make the picture more clear when sometimes taking a step back makes all the difference... A microscope is a tube for isolating the rest of the Universe from the thing you are looking at. Unless you get a really powerful microscope .... But then again I favour the Hermetic approach. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beyonder Posted September 17, 2014 Did I ever really get to understand anything? I don't know. I think I'll just go ahead and postpone judgement regarding that one. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Posted September 17, 2014 A microscope is a tube for isolating the rest of the Universe from the thing you are looking at. Unless you get a really powerful microscope .... But then again I favour the Hermetic approach. ^^^ Yeah, even then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idiot_stimpy Posted September 17, 2014 Don't get lost in space though, Okay? What happens if one does get lost in space? Is it a bad thing? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dust Posted September 17, 2014 (edited) . Edited December 16, 2014 by dustybeijing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
