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Thread 0007: Types and uses of thinking
Is there only one way of thinking, or are there different ways. If there are different ways, what are they, and what is their use?
entry 0001:
KTS, p. xix: Alive to the possibilities of Time, Space, and Knowledge, we can invite the truth of what presents itself to address us with a voice that has long gone unheard, but has never fallen silent. At first we will engage this invitation through language and linear presentations. Later, it may be in discourse with others committed to the same inquiry and actively participating in the ongoing invitation that we hear what has gone unheard. Eventually, we can learn to hear this voice in the sounds that resonate throughout our world. If we are mindful, we can learn to recognize it even in the cacophony of voices that wells up from moment to moment, naming, shaping, judging, and defining conventional reality.
entry 0002:
KTS, pp. 50-51: In the course of knowing that language invites, a label is applied to set something in place, so that what is labeled can be set aside. Knowledge is restricted to establishing the appropriate references to the relevant labels. Confined within the structures that language acknowledges and authorizes, knowledge cannot readily go 'beneath' language itself. . . . Yet this does not mean that we should aim to leave words behind, for language is linked to a deeper knowing that can be a precious resource. Its power of analysis can challenge its own constructs and operation, opening to a more fundamental understanding; its power of interpretation can point back toward its own origins, inviting inquiry into naming and knowing; its power of creation can present alternative images and 'orders', countering the inertia of the presupposed. . . . With a different language, we could activate the potential of language as a resource for knowing that went deeper than the structures of the temporal order. To do so, we must learn to restore to words the energy and 'aliveness' of time. Language can 'measure out' or create; it can penetrate the assumptions of presupposed juxtapositions or give them form. Which course it takes--how it relates to the 'logos'--will depend on the intention and the dynamic it expresses.
entry 0003:
KTS, p. 54: Not bound by language, knowledge can open to communication at a deeper level, exploring the 'logos' directly. It can maintain a subtle balance, absorbed in positions but free from positions, ready to use language in ways both new and old. Balanced in this manner, we can draw on language without being caught up in it; we can accept conventional patterns without accepting their claims. Then each thought, each presentation, each word, and each action can become a perfect gesture of balance.
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