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Understanding

Posted on Jun 9th, 2006 by Michael : catalyst-producer Michael
Understanding
 

One of the many keys to understanding is the need to acknowledge the concept of -


seeking less and less  - about more and more


NOT


more and more  - about less and less

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S.I.A. : Sam I Am
8 days later
S.I.A. said

So true & so simply stated (eloquent you might say)! :o)

seek less about more
all i know is i don’t know
not more about less

Michael : catalyst-producer
10 days later
Michael said

Watch this space !

Eileen : DivinelyFem
15 days later
Eileen said

Love it.
Couldn't have said it better,
nor would I use up the energy trying.

3 months later
yosyama said

some of them can be easily evolve to visual wording or 'standards'

Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist
7 months later
Joy Bringer said

We understand, yet we keep seeking…

Thank YOU for letting us know in silence …

& in such beauty & wisdom…

Michael : catalyst-producer
about 1 year later
Michael said

INSIGHT arises

Michael : catalyst-producer
about 1 year later
Michael said

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue …
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.


                                                              Lao Tzu

Michael : catalyst-producer
about 1 year later
Michael said

… and as ever - TIME to THINK - IS of THE MOST paramount importance

Michael : catalyst-producer
about 1 year later
Michael said

Driven by the design philosophy of  “more for less”  - RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER (1895-1983) worked simultaneously on plans for houses, cars, boats, games, television transmitters and geodesic domes, all of which were designed to be mass-produced using the simplest and most sustainable means possible.

Michael : catalyst-producer
about 1 year later
Michael said

… an example indeed of the wisdom of understanding of “more for less”

clyde : despises titles w/ a white hot psn
about 1 year later
clyde said

I did lots and lots of seeking to get where I am today.  which is to say, somwhere and of course nowhere.  It was pretty effortful for sure.

part of that saying has to do with the effort and striving, correct?  About desperation.

This is not as much an understanding, as it is a destination to where the NEED to desperately seek becomes a natural flow where not only do we have a natural process of gaining information and seeing the world, but it COMES naturally to us.  I'm thinking a development of what is called 'vision logic' helps here.  the internal reprsentation of the whole which more or less naturally gives, as does an endless font.  And at this point, we turn to maintainance and comfortable research of the wonders.

I also think there were times in my life that looked 'selfish'.  Sort of how we start out.  At that time, this was also good.  Only to turn that one around as well, or to balance it.

Seeking less and less is more a function of being and becoming than understanding as i see it.  The result of hard work.  Of an arduous journey of an adventurer.  of a seeker.  that hard work eventually rewarded with 'natural' wonder and 'natural' processes of experiencing.

Just my understanding

great quote michael

Michael : catalyst-producer
about 1 year later
Michael said

Part of that saying has to do with the effort and striving, correct?  - YES - and I would say …

About an understanding of  the need to desperately seek -  a natural flow where not only do we have a natural process of gaining information and seeing the world, but it COMES naturally to us.

THE problem that the transformed scientific rational & logical quantum wholeness mindset has in letting go of the obsession with reductionist theory 

can be simply rectified as a result of an understanding that THE property of far-from-equilibrium chaos IS that it contains the possibility of self-organisation … and thus from chaos order arises as befits the natural flow…

clyde : despises titles w/ a white hot psn
about 1 year later
clyde said

science is about the examination of smaller phemonon and the attempt to prove larger theories.  Does that some it up?  Micro and macro?

But…until it becomes truly inclusive, it will be forever lost.  It MUST have a holistic understanding of things, rather than in the vacuums their information often comes.  Whether it be with smaller phenomenon, or the inability to use a truly cross disciplinary approach.

I see the problem as not only reductionist, but compartmentalization.   And a large point here is that this is what we as humans tend to emulate.

Informed processes (multiple perspectives) are the way of the mature individual.  It should be the way of the mature science as well.  Mature governance, education, etc.

So…reductionist and rigid or simply uninformed.


As far as the 'seeking less and less about more and more'.  To me this is about the inspiriation.  From desperation, no.  From wonder and awe, yes.  From a natural awe and wonder, curiosity and fascination.  But…the seeking our of desperation is an issue.  I guess the flip side of that is that we have to also have or aquire an open mind.  And I think I've found that the more I find, the more I realize a) there is to find and b) the increasing value of those finds.  The inherent meaning and substance of them.  All that increases both an open mind and the wonder, fascination, and the awe to naturally move forward at a pace which is relaxed and contented, yet eager. 

one very fascinating thing for me is the talk of balance.  I find there are at least 10 very signficant things to balance.  Eagerness and excedness/peace and contentedness, would be one of those.  The very fascinating part of that is WHERE does that balance belong?  We talk of balance yet we have very little idea what we are trying to balance beyond the basics of such things as work and play.  We talk of balance, yet we have very little idea where those balances lie.  Even worse, we have very little intimate sense of just what those polars are.  Obviously making balancing a challenge.

Michael : catalyst-producer
about 1 year later
Michael said

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