Chapter 13, Thinking by Form
Posted: June 1st, 2010 | Author: Teresa Dietze | Filed under: UncategorizedSound file for chapter 13:
13 Thinking by Form
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PWOS Group 14a
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PWOS Group 14b
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Say we cut up some similar wedges of raw apple and raw potato. We blindfold ourselves and use forceps or someone else to feed us a wedge at random.
Maybe the first bite we notice a burst of sensations. How long does this last before the word-label ‘apple’ or ‘potato’ kicks in and we know predominately through the word-label?
On the next bite off the wedge, how long does the gap between sensation and word-labeling last? By the second bite we may be less free from what we think we know and so labeling more or less precludes the experience of the bare sensations.
Now lets come closer to ourselves. The way we experience the “taste” of what we call the body may be the way we experience the taste of apple when we rely primarily on the word-label rather than opening to what lies beneath or beyond the pressumption.
It maybe that we can open to the felt sense of the whole of the body as a mass of vibrations. Similarly we obseved that the experience of the bite of the apple is a mass of sensations that can be over-looked if we rely on the assumption that we know because we can say “apple”. One question might be: To what extent are we over looking the vibratory field of the ‘body/presence’ – the actual
“taste” of that which knows and that which can come to know itself?