08-29-2010, 12:00 AM
To have the experience of wound is to see an elephant. Its just that some see it and avoid it (but it remains an unpleasantness they are aware of) and others see it and try to resolve it.
To not see it is to not have the perception of any wounds. See, there must be a state of woundlessness. There is. No elephant.
You say the wounded person does not see the elephant, but if they truly didn't see it, they would not perceive they were wounded.
Always wounds are perceived. To not perceive them is to not have them in any way. How can you have a wound without knowing it? You must know it on some level. Then in doing this, you keep it alive in the sense you continue to perceive it. Maybe your perception makes you avoid the situations that trigger its recall, or maybe your perception makes you take on the challenges through such situations. But you truly stop feeling wounded when you don't perceive it.
Maybe your wound is you felt ugly. Kids teased you in school because you had a big nose and you felt ugly because of the names they called you. So you avoided many things because of the pain of your perception. Then one day you stop perceiving you are ugly. You just shift. Where is the wound? Someone calls you ugly, but you don't feel it. There's nothing there to give it form. If you acknowledge a form you acknowledge the wound.
So its not about accepting the wound (not quite anyway, although this kind of abandon can at times be the forerunner perhaps), but seeing the wound is perception. And perception can and does shift. And furthermore, no shift is final or absolute. Thus perceiving does not define absolutes.
To not see it is to not have the perception of any wounds. See, there must be a state of woundlessness. There is. No elephant.
You say the wounded person does not see the elephant, but if they truly didn't see it, they would not perceive they were wounded.
Always wounds are perceived. To not perceive them is to not have them in any way. How can you have a wound without knowing it? You must know it on some level. Then in doing this, you keep it alive in the sense you continue to perceive it. Maybe your perception makes you avoid the situations that trigger its recall, or maybe your perception makes you take on the challenges through such situations. But you truly stop feeling wounded when you don't perceive it.
Maybe your wound is you felt ugly. Kids teased you in school because you had a big nose and you felt ugly because of the names they called you. So you avoided many things because of the pain of your perception. Then one day you stop perceiving you are ugly. You just shift. Where is the wound? Someone calls you ugly, but you don't feel it. There's nothing there to give it form. If you acknowledge a form you acknowledge the wound.
So its not about accepting the wound (not quite anyway, although this kind of abandon can at times be the forerunner perhaps), but seeing the wound is perception. And perception can and does shift. And furthermore, no shift is final or absolute. Thus perceiving does not define absolutes.