Loosening the Chains of the Conceptual and the Intelligible
An understanding will always separate us from the truth, because an understanding creates a something-that-is-understood.
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Many people implicitly believe that coming to a complete understanding of reality involves some kind of leap, whether it be an intuition or an advanced insight, or some sort of blissful experience in meditation, or even a scientific or philosophical theory based upon the “givens” — those facts of experience that fill our days and our memories, and form the basis of our nervous tensions, phobias, and damaged feelings, as well as our moments of joy and leaps of intuitive insight and conceptual theorizing. I have noticed that the leaps never get one to the finish line. They may get us to a comfortable place, perhaps even a blissful one, but it’s not possible to understand reality this way. We need to go deeper.