Guest guest Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 Dear Wim, How "deep" is wonder? Is it deep enough to dissolve assertions as well as questions? Can it dissolve perceptions of an other and self? I wonder. When wonder is wonder-full, what else is there to know or be? What can be said about it? Love, wONdEring One --- Wim Borsboom <wim wrote: > Dear Dan, > > Perplexed? > > Who? > > I? > You? > He? > She? > It? > We? > You? > They? > > Questions... > > All to no avail. > I laughed and laughed, > When pure wonder arose again, the questions and > questioning just dissolved. > > Love, Wim > Living in wonder... > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system > (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.277 / Virus Database: 146 - Release > 9/5/2001 > > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Messenger. http://im. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2001 Report Share Posted September 25, 2001 Dear Dan, You asked: > How "deep" is wonder? Expressing wonder, awe, is the first thing a child does when it is born from and in harmony, when the miracle of life opens up to the child AS the child opens up to the miracle of life. Wonder is as deep and wide as our faculties enable and allow us to admire the world. Wonder is all-encompassing. Wonder is the blissful conglomerate expression of the human in a state of discovery, cognition and recognition, when un-adulterated sensations, emotions and even mentations are feeding unhindered into a human's discovery of the world... the inner as well as the outer world, from the most detailed to the most grandiose. When our sense-faculties, aided by a well functioning mind, (B.t.w. Avalokiteshvara considered the mind also a sense, I see it slightly different, but... okay.) are well developed and fully integrated, our wonder is as large as the universe. Wonder recognizes the self-evident. When the workings of our senses, emotions and mentations are questioned, wonder turns into 'wondering if', and via 'wondering why' doubt and self doubt arises, which eventually culminates, via loss of trust and skepticism, in bitterness and utter despair. Questioning is a psycho-social disorder. (I am pretty strong on that.) Be in a steady state of wonder, Marvel, admire the miraculous. It is so neat that words like 'smile', 'marvel' and 'miracle' all derive from the Sanskrit 'smaya', which stems from the Aryan/Sanskrit root SMI = 'smile', 'to wonder at'. > Is it deep enough to > dissolve assertions as well > as questions? > Can it dissolve perceptions of > an other and self? Originally, wonder is prior to assertions and definitely prior to questions... The first contact with the world is in wonder. And although wonder feeds on sense perceptions, sensations, emotions and mentations, it is not dependent upon them. > I wonder. The only way to be... Wait as sec... as long as you don't mean, "I wonder if..." :-) > When wonder is wonder-full, > what else is there to know or be? This is the miracle... > What can be said about it? I already spoke too much...as wonder speaks for itself... Love, Dan...Wim, PS. Gloriously wonder-stricken > wONdEring One wONdEring Two (too) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.277 / Virus Database: 146 - Release 9/5/2001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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