09-02-2010, 12:00 AM
Wei Shan Yang wrote:The story is pretty straight forward I think, seems like a good example to explain seeking, but not the best to explain completion. But would welcome your opinion (further explanation) on this. You say this struck you hard at the retreat, in what way?
Explain completion...hmmm I dont believe that I have ever really experienced completion as much as transitioning. One thing flowing into another. I can only explain with my experience of why it struck me so hard.
I am about to finish college. I came to college to answer some very powerful questions (powerful to me only). While here I found some of the things I was looking for. These things were not the expected answers...pretty boring really, as I was expecting some Caravaggio type chiarascuro moment when I would receive my download of enlightenment and carry with me my glowing halo of supreme ultimate (and arcane) knowledge. It was more like..."oh, well then, thats boring." So when I read this story I realized that I had I decided to put down (not so much put down, as set aside knowing where the piece is) the pieces that I had found...and start again. Not on the same quest...a new one. I could not start the same one as I have acquired new information that has become integrated with the old information...cant unlearn what you have learned can you? It resonated with my life experience at this moment...I guess thats the short answer. Thank you for asking.
The sacred hoop spirals round and round never touching again where it was, but still coming round in larger hoops supported by the hoops that had gone before, finally encompassing the universe.
[img]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/UNCUser/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png[/img]
Explain completion...hmmm I dont believe that I have ever really experienced completion as much as transitioning. One thing flowing into another. I can only explain with my experience of why it struck me so hard.
I am about to finish college. I came to college to answer some very powerful questions (powerful to me only). While here I found some of the things I was looking for. These things were not the expected answers...pretty boring really, as I was expecting some Caravaggio type chiarascuro moment when I would receive my download of enlightenment and carry with me my glowing halo of supreme ultimate (and arcane) knowledge. It was more like..."oh, well then, thats boring." So when I read this story I realized that I had I decided to put down (not so much put down, as set aside knowing where the piece is) the pieces that I had found...and start again. Not on the same quest...a new one. I could not start the same one as I have acquired new information that has become integrated with the old information...cant unlearn what you have learned can you? It resonated with my life experience at this moment...I guess thats the short answer. Thank you for asking.
The sacred hoop spirals round and round never touching again where it was, but still coming round in larger hoops supported by the hoops that had gone before, finally encompassing the universe.
[img]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/UNCUser/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png[/img]