Curiosity
"...When you were very young, three years old, you didn't want to look into the possibility of escape, particularly, because you were so interested in how things were done. You used to ask your father and your mother all sorts of questions: "Why is this so, Mommy? Why is this so, Daddy? Why do we do this? Why don't we do that?" But that innocent inquisitiveness has been forgotten, lost. Therefore you have to re-ignite it. Getting into your cocoon of habitual behavior happens after that initial inquisitiveness. Once there was tremendous inquisitiveness happening and then you couldn't care less. You thought that you were being mistreated by your world, so you jumped into your cocoon and decided to ignore the whole thing... Actually using our sense perceptions properly -- inquisitiveness -- is so important."
Chogyam Trungpa via Ocean of Dharma.
2 Comments:
Hello, Hokai,
Sorry to be writing off-topic, but I've only just re-found your blog after my RSS feed [http://prosvjetljenje.net/atom.xml] 'stopped' in August, probably at the same time as your move to hokai.info [I just kept figuring you were taking a long break.]
Anyway, I'm curious to know, either with a blog post or by email [unbound@gmail.com] what you think of Falling Fruit [fallingfruit.tv]. I am bummed by their use of inveigling language which smacks of Orwell or Pravda to my ear. Since most of your life was semi-behind the Iron Curtain [at least on American maps], I am wondering is you are bothered, as I am, by the aggressive, wheedling language at the website and in the 'Conscious Business' podcasts. -- Tom
Hi, Tom. I'm sorry for the effects of moving to a new domain. As to Falling Fruit, I'm not sure about it, though I appreciate what the guys at Buddhist Geeks are doing. I'm not so much bothered by the language (yes it's a bit wam-bam sort of language), not so much to think it's aggresive, but I may be missing something, not sure. Though, I do like the idea of crossing the divide between awareness and money, or in more obvious terms ethics and business.
There's a nice piece by Ken Wilber called Right Bucks, see .pdf here. I'm not sure, however, that that's what they're after. Godspeed, Hokai
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