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Thread 0010: About TSK being too mental or intellectual
entry 0001:
KTS, p. xix: 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. 51-2: The momentum of the temporal order as a whole is inherent in the words we use. Its inertia restricts knowledge and confines inquiry. Words and their binding structures both mirror and reinforce the prevailing space and time. Carriers of conventional knowledge, they tend toward the re-founding of that knowledge with each repetition.
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. . . .
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:
The emphasis in TSK is on embodiment of the vision, not intellectual
or theoretical understanding [Steve Randall, 10/27/98]: p. 91,
KTS: . . . a model is not presented as an interesting theory
(in which case it would only conform to the standard first-level
patternings). The value of the model will become apparent as
we find ways to activate it in our own way of being . . . .
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