11-10-2007, 12:00 AM
Hi Doktor,
I said; "I think we all too often are searching for something of which we already have some, at least vague, idea or preconceived notion. And that NOTION is why we do not find it.
I had to rephrase that slightly. It bothered me that it did not say exactly what I meant,... and that is the dilemna. Words do not say exactly what we mean.
You are right parables and metaphors are best because they force us to use a part of our mind which deals with recognizing a "behind the scenes" process or pattern And these patterns are what all things hold in common. These interactions that are going on all around us.
This looking "behind the scenes" in life trains our minds to live a bit closer to abstract Reality.
When Jesus was asked what the Kingdom of heaven was like, he never even tried to describe it. He offered a parable of how a person was growing into it so that we would recognise it when it happened to US. One on One.
"It is like leaven (yeast) that a woman took and hid in three measures of meal..." (three measures = heighth, depth, and width = physical universe)"..until the whole is leavened.
"It is as if a man planted a seed he rises and sleeps day and night and he knows not how it comes..." "
"...grain of mustard least among the seeds...when it is grown it becomes a tree so great that all of the birds of the field lodge in it.."
Jesus knew to describe the indiscribeable is a block in our path. Instead, he gives us puzzles which train our minds to think, (meditate) differently.
A few similies from my teacher;
"..Becoming "One With" a Sephirah (an aspect of God on the Tree of Life) in meditation is like bowling a three hundred game."
" Revelation comes like remembering something. That's the best way I can describe it. It wasn't there, and then it is."
Hints as you call them. They are the patterns. They point the way.
A mite cannot describe a bee, but it can experience one.
I said; "I think we all too often are searching for something of which we already have some, at least vague, idea or preconceived notion. And that NOTION is why we do not find it.
I had to rephrase that slightly. It bothered me that it did not say exactly what I meant,... and that is the dilemna. Words do not say exactly what we mean.
You are right parables and metaphors are best because they force us to use a part of our mind which deals with recognizing a "behind the scenes" process or pattern And these patterns are what all things hold in common. These interactions that are going on all around us.
This looking "behind the scenes" in life trains our minds to live a bit closer to abstract Reality.
When Jesus was asked what the Kingdom of heaven was like, he never even tried to describe it. He offered a parable of how a person was growing into it so that we would recognise it when it happened to US. One on One.
"It is like leaven (yeast) that a woman took and hid in three measures of meal..." (three measures = heighth, depth, and width = physical universe)"..until the whole is leavened.
"It is as if a man planted a seed he rises and sleeps day and night and he knows not how it comes..." "
"...grain of mustard least among the seeds...when it is grown it becomes a tree so great that all of the birds of the field lodge in it.."
Jesus knew to describe the indiscribeable is a block in our path. Instead, he gives us puzzles which train our minds to think, (meditate) differently.
A few similies from my teacher;
"..Becoming "One With" a Sephirah (an aspect of God on the Tree of Life) in meditation is like bowling a three hundred game."
" Revelation comes like remembering something. That's the best way I can describe it. It wasn't there, and then it is."
Hints as you call them. They are the patterns. They point the way.
A mite cannot describe a bee, but it can experience one.