[MD] Some abiding beliefs -Part 3

[Heather Perella]

     [Platt]
> In my statement, experience is of distinctions
between myself
> and a tree.

     Yeah, but what of the quality that is the parent
of these distinctions?  But I guess I'm questioning
your belief, so, anyways...

     [Platt[ 
> It's difficult to stop that little talking guy in
> your head. How do you shut him up? 

     I relax.  I still think, but take notice of
what's happening between the thoughts, and if I relax
enough, even while I'm walking, running, etc... my
thoughts will be of what I'm experiencing.  My
thoughts will be the bird singing.  These events will
replace my thoughts.  I can still have my thoughts
about these experiences, but that kind of thinking
that tries to draw the event is first of all artwork. 
I may try to draw from the event the best possible art
code that is able to pull from the event the event
itself or at least the most excellenct effort to do
so, which can never be fully mimiced by a human being,
but that's what makes poetry, music, and paintings so
wonderful.  The depth of the event is not in the leaf
of the tree, and the whole event is not intellectually
documented.  The event is leaf, feeling, inspiration,
that passing autumn wind, and by the way a human being
perceiving this.  This whole event is not one of
these, but all of these and more.  It cannot be fully
defined.  Yet, art can be intellectual, as well as,
free the mind to go beyond the thoughts, to bring a
sense of experience that is for lack of any better way
to put it at this time - dynamic.  (By the way
running, backpacking, or any high effort exercise such
as canoeing, etc... does pull ones experience from
being totally in ones own mind, too), 

     [Platt]
> Are you in some sort of trance?

     Maybe, when all distinctions go away, and I'm
just noticing everything in a way that is acceptable
and beautiful, I'm not rejecting anything, but this
place must be quiet, peaceful, and calm in order for
me to not want to reject it.  So, I am living
wondering in some wierd way as I sit in the woods, is
this heartbeat I feel also the earth thumping in my
chest.  Take away this earth, and my heart goes too.

     [Platt]
> This yes/no split I refer to is the first expression
> of a child.

     oh...  If I look at it this way, then wouldn't
that first split be eat/not eat, or maybe
poop/not-poop.  Anyways... I'm not really going to
argue this point, I just don't know.


SA


 
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