I initially started this site as a place for me to figure out how to talk about enlightenment, for lack of a better word; the space and expansion that ocurred in this body in December of 2006. I am getting by just fine, as far as expressing what is here. And now I have a regular vernacular of sorts that I use for my posts. It seems to be effective, and I do not receive many e-mails to further clarify what I have written.
But now that I have achieved, more or less, what I set out to do, I am thinking of new ways of presenting material on Takuin.com. I have received some nice suggestions, over the last few weeks, on what I might want to consider adding to this blog. For example, a beginner’s series of articles, and a static home page that lays out more of what this site is about, etc.
If someone finds there way here by accident, there is very little for them to latch onto at first. I just write, with no thought of how it is received. But if there is a beginner’s series, or at least a more comprehensive About page, it might make a first time visit more palatable.
So this post is to ask the advice of the readers of this site. Is there anything that you would like to see here? Is there some information that might help round out this site even further? Something more I should include, or perhaps, something I should consider removing? Just send a comment to let me know.
Any advice given will be accepted with gratitude. I appreciate the time that is spent here by all of you, and I look forward to writing more and more. I am excited to hear any suggestions you all might give.
I’ll be away from the blog until Sunday or so, and I’ll see you all when I return.
Takuin
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I like your about page as it is. The more you say about yourself, the more you invite others to classify or categorize you, to read their own preconceptions into what you say, to see hidden motives and agendas that do not actually exist.
I am curious to see what sort of material you would consider introductory. Can simple things be made more accessible to the complex mind by further simplification?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I find them helpful in understanding what I see.
I just found your site linked from http://www.elysha.org … I read “About Takuin” and “blog update” and I can feel something moving already… the simple fact that somebody who “got it” is bloging on a regular basis is amazing enough… keep up
Thank you, Jeff, for sticking around to see what I write (and also for your invaluable insight).
I have already discarded the idea about a beginner’s series, mostly for the reasons you already pointed out. But I have come up with a new idea for a series that will start within the next week, or so. (Stop by again, if you are interested in reading it.)
It seems to me that people need to categorize others as a mechanism for survival. If they can put you into a shell, put you into an image they can deal with, then they can safely build up their expectations. They know, more or less, what is coming next.
Imagine living your life without that function. It is amazing.
Thanks for your support. I greatly appreciate it.
Takuin
Hi Ozren. I am glad you have the chance to stop by and read what is written.
I was a bit surprised by the link from Elysha. He and I have never met or conversed. I checked my visitor stats one day and there was a link to his site. I have since bookmarked it and read throguh a little bit of what he has written.
I decided to blog more often after having a conversation with Albert at http://www.urbanmonk.net/ . If you look through the archives, I have not always been a regular poster. But I am slowly changing all of that now.
Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your input.
Takuin
Hi Takuin,
Just to let you know that i happened to mention your blog to Elysha in a private e-mail conversation and then noticed that Elysha had a link connecting to your site in his newest writing “The New Classroom”.
Talking about Elysha i am drawn to his teaching which is very simple and at the same time arduous and is not for folks who are trying to gain ‘enlightenment’ or whatever but simply folks whose intent is to be true . According to him once you awaken to this “you” of who “you” are (as you have)it is not a slam dunk and that being the end of it all but one has to live this realization on a momentary basis. There are teachers who claim that you can do nothing to awaken to this trueness . Yes we are already free and that we are the divine one but just an intellectual understanding of that is not going to free us….we are more sided on who we think we are and so the balance has to shift in order that we live and move from this place of trueness. I don’t know how it all feels from your side though.
Rashmi
Hello, Rashmi.
It is great to hear from you. Thanks for taking the time to comment. And also, thank you very much for mentioning me to Elysha. Since then, I have seen a spike in me e-mails, as well as my comments.
You are quite right that intellectual understanding can do nothing to bring one to this (whatever “this” is). “Who” we are is simply more fragmentation. I questioned the need for any of that.
If I am shifting from one fragment, one state of mind, to another, what is really changing?
Instead of seeing, or moving, from one fragment to another, why not see the underlying movement itself. Instead of looking at fragments, see the process of fragmentation.
Thanks for stopping in, Rashmi. I look forward to hearing from you again.
Takuin