April 1, 2011
Walking Wisdom 0
The mind is a truly amazing function of consciousness. It moves in time and space and creates everything between the most beautiful art and the most horrendous violence. Surely very few of us would like to go back to a time without science, for instance medical science. At the same time the thinking mind and it’s products like technology and economy is the source of the global environmental crisis we are facing and still we are trying to solve the problem by using the very cause of the problem it self. It is not a lack of knowledge that is driving the environmental crisis. More knowledge and more information will not change anything. I might be wrong but my experience is that intellectual understanding very seldom leads to a change in behavior. I could be a university professor in ethics without being ethical and that wouldn’t really be a problem within the system. The fundamental driving force behind most of the thinking is fear or more correct a strategy to cover up fear with a sense of knowing and control. The complexity, diversity and ever-changing flow of life cannot be captured and framed in words. Words are indeed handy and useful in many ways … but they are not true. The first step is to see and accept the whole bunch of believes we all carry and usually takes to be true. When they are seen we can let go of them and relax back to basic ground of being and see what seeks to emerge, a movement from intellectual knowledge to natural wisdom. As some old master put it: let the mind settle into silence, be present in the moment and do what comes natural.
