Comments on: Free-flowing answers

By: Adam Kayce : Monk At Work

Adam Kayce : Monk At Work — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:02:16 +0000

Oh goodness, I hope not. ;(

(what was it you were saying about, “solid things dissolving, barriers breaking down, giving a longer view and freer communication…”

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:06:37 +0000

Thanks for the update (and congratulations on your ‘revamp’). I’ve edited the link. Though I assume you’re happily settling down to create 301 redirects for every single page? (heh…)

By: Adam Kayce : Monk At Work

Adam Kayce : Monk At Work — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:43:27 +0000

Hi Hilary,

Thanks for linking to that article of mine (you’re so sweet).

I just wanted to let you know that I’ve revamped my site, and so link above won’t get you to the article any more, but this one will:

http://monkatwork.com/2006/11/15/handling-the-flood-of-information-with-a-fork/

Thanks again!

By: Hilary

Hilary — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:09:01 +0000

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your various comments. Could you enlarge on them a bit – be a tad less gnomic – so we can get your point, and discuss it?

By: Steve Lanzet

Steve Lanzet — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:58:17 +0000

you can flap your arms all you want, but never fly

By: dobro

dobro — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:44:08 +0000

“Yes. It also softens and expands the idea of self”

Self-image is problematic. You have to go beyond thoughts and images entirely at some point, cuz the mind can take you only so far, whereas your being goes beyond the merely mental. Consciousness exists independently of mind, if you think of mind as thoughts, emotions, and sensations. You can verify this difference between consciousness and mind in meditation fairly easily, I think. So, 59 with its images of dispersing things is a wonderful instrument for me of the spiritual path, of progressively dispersing self-image and ego. I can see how that process might be a ’softening’ but I’m not sure about the ‘expanding’ bit. See, I don’t want to start thinking of myself as cosmic as much as I want to be conscious without any self-image at all. Make sense?

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:12:06 +0000

Yes. It also softens and expands the idea of self – and that comes as a small revelation to me. I thought I was ‘thinking bigger’ about what I do by not compartmentalising it in its own little box away from who I am. I have a feeling I may have been squishing who I am into the ‘what I do’ box. 59 is box-free.

LiSe’s I Ching says:
“6 at 3: Disperse oneself, no regret.
Do not get hooked to what you represent, that is the wrong way of believing in yourself, because it is believing through otherâ€™s eyes. Let your self-image go. Only then can you follow your heart and live your true life, because you are free.”

By: dobro

dobro — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:22:41 +0000

I like the idea that 59.3 is about releasing or breaking up identifications with things. That’s really useful. Doing this penetrates the foundations of conditioned self, of course. Nice.