Question for August 9, 2010. Why did you start Takuin.com?
This is the first video made specifically for this site. I won’t say much, as we’ll let the video speak for itself…
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Hello Takuin,
This morning I was thinking aloud “where are the words?” and wondering is this experience what is called “writer’s block”? is it that I don’t know how to use the words, find the words? am i waiting for the words to come?
“… there is the need to learn how to speak, to learn how to write”
I remember what others say to me but not what I say. At times I feel that I’ve talked a lot but it takes me a long while to say what I’m trying to say. Yes, the knowledge is there. But it’s as if I have forgotten how to talk, how to use the words. Sometimes I get frustrated. Sometimes I go silent. Sometimes there is no desire to repeat what has been said before.
And often when I don’t say anything, I find my self hearing another voice what I am experiencing. But when I come to share, my tongue gets tied and I can’t find the words.
There is a faint memory that I used to know what to say… I used to know what to write… what happened? what is happening? a humbling experience.
as you said… “connections are not being made” “always out of reach”…
I need a “re-introduction to words”.
Thank you very much for this heart-warming talk. I really needed to hear this. It strengthens my faith that this too shall pass.
The video is beautiful. I could feel the breeze playing with the branches and the leaves around buddha, and the movement of the water. Thank you, Takuin.
Thank you, Masi.
Words fail….even in the most beautiful expression…but it is good to be kind to them, as well.
It might be true that words can never touch beyond, or however we might want to say it. And it may also be true that it is all false and nothing can change that. But those are just words as well, and certainly no better or worse than anything you have to say.
I have seen many arguments online, especially lately for some reason, where people go on and on about how wrong or right the words of a particular teacher are. It even gets down to such ridiculousness as taking each sentence and refuting it (literally, sentence by sentence). And not only refuting it, but responding as to why it is wrong, and what, in turn, is right.
Some refuters talk about how it is all illusory, but they never once take a moment to find that movement within themselves. They just assume it is real, because it sounds good to them, based on their preferences and so on. It is a game of memorization and improvisation for them; they memorize the material – the words – then blow it out in a particular ‘voice’, all the while talking about how the opposite viewpoint is the illusory one.
What they are doing is taking a word, an image, and building it into the next big structure to live in, even if that structure is one of ‘non-duality’. But thankfully, that is not the only way to approach the word…
As a word arises (and this might not be a literal word), it does so in a way that is completely unique to you, Masi. This movement of the word is of course NOT unique, because it lives throughout humanity. But how it arises, and in what way it appears to you, can never happen to any other human being. It is only for you. It is not unique, and it is absolutely unique, in the same moment.
I hope you will think of this…it is not your job to do something to the words, or to adjust them in some way comfortable to you. But you can live with them, together, moving in unison. Then it is no longer the person and his or her words, but simply the word…or simply the person. Not a controlling identity…just the organism known as Masi…
…whatever that may be
And thank you for your kind words on the video. I enjoyed the process of making it, and I will definitely make more in the near future.
“It is a game of memorization and improvisation for them…”
Yes, indeed. I personally don’t understand what they say when they use words in this way… and don’t learn anything from such “teachers”. I’ve often found that when teachers speak from the “heart” then I open up to listen, or as it was the case during school years I’d straighten up in my seat and give them my full attention.
I love how you explain that the word arises in a way that is completely unique to me…. (those would be my best academic works). And, I understand how the movement is not unique to my individual but that the process, the unfolding, and the function of the word would be. But, it just seems that it’s been a long while now that I have not been feeling this movement. Perhaps, I am trying too hard. Or perhaps I am being hard on myself. I’m not sure what it is….
Thanks, Masi.
It doesn’t require so much of you. Maybe we could say that your role is that of vehicle…the vehicle doesn’t go where it ‘wants’ to, in the sense of manipulation. There is no resistance during its travels, other than physical obstacles it may encounter along the way…
…but even with possible physical obstructions, there is still no resistance.
And thank you for starting Takuin.com!
Masi,
It is you, and everyone else, that gives this site meaning…it would be nothing without reader interaction. And for that, I am grateful.
It seems as if you’ve gone full circle. For our benefit if u want. Part of your role, whether u like it or not, is to be teacher. As you know every teacher needs ‘to learn how to speak, to learn how to write’ That’s what makes a good teacher – having to relearn in order to be able to explain clearly. Sounds to me like you’re quite ready to leave it all behind and move straight ahead. Straight ahead, that is, from the cleft before u ‘reinserted myself into the real world’. You are still in awe of the rupture. Rightly so I’m sure.
Thank you, Ju.
I’ve been thinking about what you’ve described for some time now. But that action has not yet appeared. It is close…
What I’ve appreciated the most is the chance to have some of our conversations.We’ve come to that place in very different ways so it’s very enlightening to explore what is outside ones own perspective.
Davidya,
It has been a joy for me as well…
Very nice video, Takuin. I enjoyed your answer, and I’m quite glad you took up the question and shared verbally vs in writing. It was good to hear your voice as you discussed this…. this…. “stuff”.
I’m intrigued by the commonalities I hear in your story and that of others. Whatever this awakening thing really is, I find it amazing how it seems to be pretty consistent, maybe not in the specifics, but in the overall tenor.
And last, a more mundane question: what did you use to shoot the video? DSLR? If so, which one. I’ve been pondering getting a Canon 7D to do some outdoor video stuff.
Be well my friend….. Tom
Thanks, Tom.
A 7D is serious business, haha. I used a Canon to shoot the video in HD, but it wasn’t anything as heavy as the 7D or 5D. It is a Powershot SX200 IS. It seems to do alright.
I already have enough footage for several more videos like this one, and I think I will experiment with this form for at least the rest of the year.
We’ll see how it goes.
Very nice video with a point and shoot! You have a good eye. I’ve seen some professional video shot with a 5D, and it is amazing. I believe there is a movie that came out in the last year that was shot entirely with a 5D. Obviously, not Avatar, but something that actually made it into theaters. Cool, huh?
That is a good video Takuin and a better way to connect with your audience, good to hear you might be doing more of them. Your like a modern Krishnamurti.
I think you both talking alot of truth and i reckon what happened to you is going to happen to more people in the future, like an evolutionary jump. Lets hope so anyway be less fighting if we could live without such a strong ego.
Thank you for the comments, Adam, and also for your support.
Well, I don’t know about that…but let’s hope I continue to be Takuin.
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