If you look to the upper right, just above the top post, you’ll see a new area called, “Question Of The Week.” This is an idea I have implemented in order to have a higher level of interaction with you, the readers. It is intended for us to question every thing we know, in order to see what lies beneath. (If indeed, anything is there at all.)
Takuin.com is not yet large enough to warrant a forum, but I wanted to have more interactivity, to share ideas and explore issues together, and to just introduce all of our lives to one another. And I think it will be interesting and useful to us all.
Here is the idea:
At the beginning of every week, I will post a new Question of the Week for all the readers of Takuin.com. I will also write a post on the same topic, expressing whatever happens to arise from that question. The post might be quite long, or quite short. I won’t know until I start writing.
Now your turn.
After reading the post, submit a comment of your own expression on the same topic. You can post a question, statement, something from your past experiences, anything at all, as long as it is reasonably on-topic.
From there, I will take the best comments, the ones that propel the topic to even greater heights, and I will append them to the post itself. I will then respond to the comments within the post, hopefully, getting even deeper and deeper into the subject.
Back to you.
Submit more comments, going deeper into the subject. (The point that we may reach is a reduction beyond what we have known. If the known is carefully traversed, and we come out at the other side, what will be there?)
I append more comments into the post, and respond again. And this is the pattern. I will continue to do this on the question until Saturday or Sunday. I’ll then post a new question, and a new post, on Monday. I am very interested in seeing how long of a post we can generate each week.
Theoretically, this questioning could go on forever, until it encompasses the entirety of human knowledge. But none of that is necessary. We’ll just go as far as we can in the time allotted. At the very least, we’ll discover things we might have never anticipated, and that is always wonderful.
I have already posted the question for next week, and I will publish the corresponding post on Monday. This should be a very interesting means of communication for us, but if you have any ideas of your own, feel free to add them to your comments. I am open to them all. (That includes ideas for future Questions of the Week.)
If this kind of activity is not for you, then please recommend it to someone that might be interested. And if you have not done so already, please subscribe to my RSS Feed. It might make it easier for you to keep up with the posts. You can also subscribe by email on the Subscribe page.
I look forward to getting this underway. It is a very exciting time for me, and I am grateful to anyone that wishes to participate.
4 Comments
Fantastic idea, Takuin! I think that we search for all that love and peace and happiness because we don’t know we have it. Then again, I’m only going by what I’ve read in non-dual writings – I still have a tendency to look outwards for these very things.
When we struggle and are in pain, it seems to simple to believe that we already have everything we need here inside of us. I know on an intellectual level that is true. I think most of us, as Marianne Williamson says, are afraid that we really are that powerful. Then we would truly have to be accountable for everything in our lives because we really did create it. I am closer but I am not there yet. Won’t it be a fantastic day when we all realize that we are already there—no struggle, no pain, no sorrow, no joy, no happiness, just bliss, just be.
Thanks for the comment, Albert.
On Monday sometime, I will post on the topic. Be sure to stop by and leave your own expression on the matter.
See you then.
Thanks very much, Patricia. Of course, when we struggle we are not in pain, we ARE pain. The separation penetrates every part of our being.
And we should all know by know that an intellectual understanding is not enough. We have more knowledge now than any time in history, yet we still grunt and throw stones at each other. Knowledge is not enough.
I am happy you are doing so well. I read your blog from time to time. You are certainly providing value in the lives of others. Keep up the great work over there.