| | RE: One Word Answer 3/30/08 8:41 AM as a reply to Hokai Sobol. Hokai, yes, I could have used several other terms, like "home.". I never knew ground before I had practiced long and hard for some years, but now I know it has always been. I suspect I knew it much better before my left brain functions took over at some point in my very early development as a human being. Once that happened what is commonly called "mind" (controller, interpreter, nag, boss, what have you) became the pre-eminent way I experienced the world. So I have gone through a years-long process of realizing just how noisy my mind is, how selfish and often just plain misleading it can be. At some point, though, after experiencing a lot of despondency, this mind ceased to be the sole or sometimes the leading interpreter of my existence, allowing me access to a more right brain set of perceptions that dance, flicker and change in rapid, chaotic succession all the time. It is this perspective that brought the realization, after re-engaging it over and over and over again, that the world is just like that and therein lies a peace and security that is surprising and quite unexpected. My own silly name for that experience is "ground."
Sorry for the clumsiness, but this is at least a little elaboration on my very own one word. |