Inner Tracking

[Paul Rezendes]

Hi everyone,

We are coming together for a rare opportunity at Teaching Drum in Wisconsin. The event will be held in April. You can see all the details at this link: http://www.teachingdrum.org/tracking.html

When we look at the world at large, we see a lot of violence between human beings and an insensitivity to other beings and the natural world. People who see all this violence and insensitivity as a problem usually try to fix it out there by adjusting their behavior and/or creating models to live by, some authoritarian principle or ideology. May I suggest that the problem is deep within us and has to be addressed there. Hopefully we will get a chance to explore deeply what disconnects us from the natural world and separates us, human from human, culture from culture.

Please join us in April.

Paul Rezendes

[Christian Pompsch]

Dear Paul,

 

thank you very much for your invitation.

 

I'd love to attend as you cover the things I am thinking about myself recently.

Due to physical constraints like being an ocean and a continent apart I won't make it, but, with my beating and feeling heart I already am on that quest through my own wilderness. Also I fully agree with you that the war we fight and the destruction we cause to each other and to nature herself a just the outer side of the battles and conflicts we fight in ourselves. I very much suspect we as a race started down that fatal path when we first raised fences protecting our fields an cattle, defining an inside area as good an valuable, as our property and an outside area which was bad, and invaluable - unless we could conquer, utilize and exploit it.
I fear this fence became a wall and what once was running only through the bewildered land now is rooted deep inside our estranged minds.

 

 

All the best for your gathering and quest.

 

Thank you very much and best regards,
Christian.

 

 

Christian Pompsch
Musik - Text - Fotografie
Telefon 0176 486 85 295
https://gefrorenezeit.wordpress.com/

 

 

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[Paul Rezendes]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your email. Sorry to hear you can't make it to the Inner Tracking program. Interestingly enough, we do have a couple of people coming from somewhere in Europe.

Yes, it seems like what we are seeing playing itself outwardly in the world is a reflection of our inner state of mind. Unless we address that, I don’t think we can act in a clear way. It takes a great deal of soul searching or inner inquiry to understand what is going on inwardly.

I am going to try and put a spin on this. We’ll see how it comes out here. 

It seems to me that the thought process has taken a wrong turn. This is what Krishnamurti and David Bohm have called it. This probably happened a really long time ago. Basically, thought created a separation within us. Thought’s basic or fundamental job is to create separation in order to understand in the way it goes about understanding. As it goes about trying to understand the separation it created, it just creates another separation. It can’t see the full picture, because every time it tries to understand itself, it creates a separation and fragmentation. It just doesn't have a holistic perspective. Let's say that something "outside" of thought has to come in so that the whole picture can be seen and there can be clarity.

I'm going to try and draw a picture of what might have happened when thought created this separation that I'm trying to talk about. As I try to draw this picture, I don’t mean for someone or yourself to understand with the intellect. Let's say that in the beginning there was awareness. Moving and coming into being in that awareness were feelings and thoughts. Feelings and thoughts were just coming into being according to various stimuli. There was no separation until one particular thought came into being or into view, into awareness. That thought was, “Those are my thoughts. I am having those thoughts". That basic thought created this notion of a thinker, someone who is thinking the thoughts, someone who is separate from the thoughts. This someone is thinking that it also has awareness and is in control of awareness. This "idea" of a self now needs to have control over the thought process and awareness. Control and power over becomes very important to it. So now we have this belief in a self that has control and power over awareness and thought. Belief becomes very important to this self since that's what it is, a belief. This self thinks and believes that it is the foundation of intelligence and it is the mover and shaker that can and has to straighten the world out. The only change it knows is according to its beliefs. It gathers within itself various forms or various belief systems and ideology. It believes that it will straighten out the problems of the world through these belief systems and ideologies. But in doing this, all it does is continue to fragment humankind, belief system against belief system, ideology against ideology. The thought process can't see beyond fragmentation.

Something else has to come in. What about openness? It seems to me that openness is the awareness that was there in the beginning, before thought created the self. That openness, at least the way I see it, is the "true" intelligence. That is where creativity happens and learning happens. Thought might try to acquire openness, which is wholeness, but thought is fundamentally fragmented.

What happens when we sincerely want to know the truth about all of this? Is that when openness comes in? When we truly want to know the truth, openness is. Unless openness can come into the picture, I’m afraid that we will continue to perpetuate the fragmentation we see today in the world.

Paul