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The art of a hunter is to become inaccessible. To be inaccessible means that you touch the world around you sparingly. You don't expose yourself to the power of the wind unless it is mandatory. You don't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people you love.
To be unavailable means that you deliberately avoid exhausting yourself and others. It means that you are not hungry and desperate.
A hunter knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry. To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
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There is another component to this, which DJ talked about also, in which (I have to paraphrase here) he said a warrior must love the world, and only then will it reveal its secrets. To look at the world with eyes of wonder, walking breathlessly.
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And accessible also means there is a place of access, so to speak, between the chinks of the armor, let's say.
Achilles was defeated because he was accessible. Even just that tiny little part of his heel...it was accessible and he was beaten.
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Yes, the sad thing for Achilles is he didn't know his heel was not protected, and becasue he didn't know there was no action he could have taken to remedy that. So to know is to be able to do something about it to change it. It starts with knowing, that's the first step, then doing based upon what is known. Then correcting as you go along because what you know changes when you know more.
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Nu Lang wrote:Yes, the sad thing for Achilles is he didn't know his heel was not protected, and becasue he didn't know there was no action he could have taken to remedy that. So to know is to be able to do something about it to change it. It starts with knowing, that's the first step, then doing based upon what is known. Then correcting as you go along because what you know changes when you know more.Then you realize that, even though you thought you knew, you actually don't know anything at all. All you know is that you really don't know!
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Yes, thats an important factor in becoming formless. Also though...
We don't know in a concrete way, meaning what we know in a given moment and works for that moment... will change. But having some knowing is what enables us to make decisions to act upon, and that's how we change in a more permanent way (change fixed habits), via our actions.
So we learn to take knowing for what it is, an assemblage of perception. Then we seek to move it at will. To do these things we must have knowledge 'of them'.
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