Saturday, October 9, 2010

Bringing Balance Into Being

It is about balance, and it cannot be told to another.
In reading a book about riding a bicycle, a human being cannot learn balance, no matter how well the process is described, no matter how many pictures or videos are used in describing balance, it must be experienced through trial and error by each individual wishing to learn balance.
Therefore, it would appear that balance is not a factor of knowledge. If no book can teach a person balance, then it must not be a factor of knowledge. What is it then? It seems to be something that you just "get". You get a knack for it. Is there another form of learning that doesn't require knowledge? A form of learning that is holistic, meaning that you get the whole of it at once and there is no time involved - no time where knowledge is accumulated. You observe your body doing something something - like learning to ride a bike - and then there is this quantum leap at some point where balance is understood. Does this involve the intellect?
When a human being suffers psychologically, it is said that they are 'out of balance' or 'imbalanced'. Is this describing another state that the intellect cannot solve? There is a balance that must be understood inwardly through meditation and observation of the actual experience. Just like learning how to ride a bike. The brain's full attention is on balance when learning how to ride a bike... is it attention to the actual that brings balance into being?

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