Month: November 2014

Transformative insight through reflection and process

the bottom of the bucket drops out

insight > freedom

a row of ants look like a line when viewed from a distance, but when seen up close they’re segmented, not solid

in the same way, meditation allows us to see the gaps between our thoughts and realize that they’re not necessarily true – we don’t always need to believe our thoughts

if we slow film down enough we’ll see individual frames – there’s no movement on the screen – the movement is made by the mind

when the water stills and the sediment settles we can see to the bottom of the well… like in a still mind

Common Sense 283 – Summoning the Demon

start 33 min in

According to Harold Bloom’s theory of poetic influence, poets inevitably “misread” their precursors; “poetic misprision,” his term for this kind of creative misreading, is the first step in the “belated” poet’s assertion of originality. Bloom believes that a similar process occurs when critic confronts text — interpretation is another form of more or less creative misreading. He tells his students, “There is no method except yourself.”

https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/bloom-colossus.html