03-20-2014, 12:00 AM
One thing I am qualified to talk about is music. I got in to music when I was a kid and had a very cheap keyboard with a beat machine, not very high tech but would bounce audio tracks together on a tape to tape stereo creating my master pieces : ) I started learning guitar age 11 and started busking age 14. Every Saturday morning a friend and I would arrive early to the underpass tunnel eagerly awaiting the town goers who we would serenade with our young voices and popular music covers. My experiences grew over the years as I played with new musicians, I helped to organize open mic nights, I played gigs, recording in the studio and teach guitar.
If you asked me to write an instructional book on how to learn guitar I could do it. If you asked me to write a book about Intent I could not. The best I could do would be an entirely theoretical interpretation of the material already available on the subject. I know that theory is good to a certain point but once you understand a concept there is really not much point thinking about it any further which is why i am not really interested in hearing people talk about Intent, the Eagle, the assemblage point, seeing etc.....
Lets talk about patience, patience is a technique and I use it to accelerate learning. It may seem logical to talk about Intent as much as possible to try and understand it but are we learning something new or just going over what we already know? How can we learn something new if our heads are full of ideas about what we already know? For me I make a decision as a Warrior to be practical and I know that no amount of thinking about what I already know is going to teach me about intent so instead I learn about patience and while learning about patience I start to learn about the unknown. I begun wanting to know about Intent and in accepting and identifying the gap in my knowledge for what it is I am able to let my inquiry go. Unexpectedly I find a concept in its place which is the unknown! and this is precisely where my inquiry about intent has disappeared in to and power willing will one day return from. Everything I as yet do not know about Intent is lurking in the unknown so it makes complete sense to me that I need to not study Intent (the known) but instead need to use patience (technique) and study the unknown! I can liken this process to the saying that goes you will never find romance all the while you are looking for it but as soon as you forget about it you suddenly meet someone. There is truth in this. This, I believe, comes down to living in the present and using our resources wisely and having faith.
I am grateful for our interaction also. If I have learned anything at all from trying to be Warrior for all these years then I would like to be able to share it the same way I share my love of music.
If you asked me to write an instructional book on how to learn guitar I could do it. If you asked me to write a book about Intent I could not. The best I could do would be an entirely theoretical interpretation of the material already available on the subject. I know that theory is good to a certain point but once you understand a concept there is really not much point thinking about it any further which is why i am not really interested in hearing people talk about Intent, the Eagle, the assemblage point, seeing etc.....
Lets talk about patience, patience is a technique and I use it to accelerate learning. It may seem logical to talk about Intent as much as possible to try and understand it but are we learning something new or just going over what we already know? How can we learn something new if our heads are full of ideas about what we already know? For me I make a decision as a Warrior to be practical and I know that no amount of thinking about what I already know is going to teach me about intent so instead I learn about patience and while learning about patience I start to learn about the unknown. I begun wanting to know about Intent and in accepting and identifying the gap in my knowledge for what it is I am able to let my inquiry go. Unexpectedly I find a concept in its place which is the unknown! and this is precisely where my inquiry about intent has disappeared in to and power willing will one day return from. Everything I as yet do not know about Intent is lurking in the unknown so it makes complete sense to me that I need to not study Intent (the known) but instead need to use patience (technique) and study the unknown! I can liken this process to the saying that goes you will never find romance all the while you are looking for it but as soon as you forget about it you suddenly meet someone. There is truth in this. This, I believe, comes down to living in the present and using our resources wisely and having faith.
I am grateful for our interaction also. If I have learned anything at all from trying to be Warrior for all these years then I would like to be able to share it the same way I share my love of music.