Imagine that there is a television screen and a large number of sneakers are scampering across it. The screen is crowded. That screen is our mind and the shoes are our endless thoughts. As we train and practice we can see the shoes slowing down. Sometimes, they slow down so much that we can see the screen itself.
Eventually the screen is what we see, rather than the shoes. The screen is really who we are. The shoes hide that.
Seeing the screen lets us cut loose from where we are stuck: all those familiar shoes. That translates into the ability to change both our actions and perceptions: to get unstuck. From that we develop the increasing ability to adapt to all kinds of circumstances.
This ability to adapt is the road to excellence and mastery. The Ancients called it The Way.
The fact that Darwin said adaptability is the key to survival and evolution is certainly no coincidence.
very interesting post.
When Moses came down from the mountain with the Tora,(the light)the people at the foot of the mountain, could not wait for him any longer, and they build a golden calf pointing at their creation saying this is enlightement.
Moses saw this, and put a vale, a cover, a screen, over his face.
The bible says that the face of moses where shining,
the hebrew verb speaks of Caran> shined.
The bible translators translated Caran as Corns
but the hebrew original meaning is that Moses put a screen on his face, saying enlightement is only the screen, and any other form is our own conseption shadowed and materilized on it.
Thank you for this post
@andre
Your comment is equally interesting, enlightening and thought provoking. My knowledge of the bible is limited and I have never come across anything like this.
Wonderful.
Thank you.
Hi Daniel,
It’s me, André. My knowledge of the bible is equally limited. Although I notice that learning Hebrew does help to unlock a few things that are virtually impossible to access with either the King James, Luther’s or other popular translations.
For me it’s like looking at software code. Most of it still doesn’t make much sense but there are certain principles and functions in there that are pretty mind-blowing and go far beyond that sunday-school stuff, criss-crossing somewhere in Deep Space where Bodhidharma is laughing and the angels riff along.
… Also if you look very closely you’ll find that the above comment was actually posted by e. Klein which is of course my lovely wife who unlike me actually knows what she’s talking about when she mentions the torah and stuff …
So, as you can see we’re both following your blog and enjoy Lost Coin a lot.
hope we didn’t cause too much confusion! haha
all the best to you and your family,
André
@Andre
I get it now. Funny the thought that I had not heard from your wife occurred when I read the comment so I wrote her on facebook and I thought you might be related.
Both of you are anything but confusing, wonderful intelligent people I am always so happy to be in touch with.
“Adaptability to all circumstances” sounds like moving without knowing if the ice I’m walking on will carry me. Is trust something that can be learned?
@Chris
Thanks for your comment Chris. It is more like watching the ice carefully. It is practice in being able to change according to circumstances. It doesn’t really require trust. It does require letting go of the past.
“This ability to adapt is the road to excellence and mastery. ” How true that is. This generation is going to be tested by its ability to adapt. How to adapt and thrive with newer, faster, changing, and more intensive demands on us. We must really learn to relax and focus in this new world. Thanks for the post.