...so its a frustrating issue for people who think that thinking is the only way to learn. Learning through thought, however, is abstract and it only deals with imagined meta-realities whereas learning through the body is concrete and deals with the actual.
When we ask a question like "What is that?" referring to what can be imagined as a tree, we are usually asking "How may that aspect of reality be distinguished?" rather than "What is the thing in itself (sing an dich) prior to abstraction?" In the first case, we are seeking a noun, but in the second case we are seeking a verb (what IS that?). Everyone is accustomed to living in a world of nouns, but few know anything about Reality where only verbs apply.
Another fundamental problem involved in any discussion like this is that most adults cannot stop thinking at will, so they cannot enjoy a sufficient amount of silence to perceive how intelligent the universe is in the absence of thought. For those who have learned to function without thought, it is obvious that thought is a secondary and unnecessary utility for more than 95% of life's activities. For those who have not escaped the habit of thought, it is simply unimaginable that life can be lived intelligently without thought. If those people who cannot escape the mind could get up in the morning and go through half a day without thinking, they would see the vast intelligence of Reality beyond all abstraction. This intelligence is usually overlooked because the mind is chattering incessantly which creates the illusion that such chattering is necessary for intelligence to be present.
In silence and totally without reflective thought the body can go to the bathroom, brush teeth, get dressed, fix breakfast, eat breakfast, drive to work, read and understand highway signs, park a car, go to an office, and do various kinds of work. Thought can be employed whenever it might be useful and can then can be suspended whenever its usefulness has ended. Unless one is a theoretical physicist 95% of one's day would not require thought, yet the body would function intelligently throughout that entire period of time.
Speed readers know (through direct experience) that a book can be read and understood without linear verbalized thought, but a non-speed reader cannot imagine how that is possible. The same intelligence that allows a book to be understood in silence is operating everywhere, but it can't be seen or appreciated until the reflective overlay of thought is temporarily suspended. If there is no interest in going beyond thought and experiencing Reality directly, then what is being pointed to on this website will never be seen, understood, or appreciated.
When we ask a question like "What is that?" referring to what can be imagined as a tree, we are usually asking "How may that aspect of reality be distinguished?" rather than "What is the thing in itself (sing an dich) prior to abstraction?" In the first case, we are seeking a noun, but in the second case we are seeking a verb (what IS that?). Everyone is accustomed to living in a world of nouns, but few know anything about Reality where only verbs apply.
Another fundamental problem involved in any discussion like this is that most adults cannot stop thinking at will, so they cannot enjoy a sufficient amount of silence to perceive how intelligent the universe is in the absence of thought. For those who have learned to function without thought, it is obvious that thought is a secondary and unnecessary utility for more than 95% of life's activities. For those who have not escaped the habit of thought, it is simply unimaginable that life can be lived intelligently without thought. If those people who cannot escape the mind could get up in the morning and go through half a day without thinking, they would see the vast intelligence of Reality beyond all abstraction. This intelligence is usually overlooked because the mind is chattering incessantly which creates the illusion that such chattering is necessary for intelligence to be present.
In silence and totally without reflective thought the body can go to the bathroom, brush teeth, get dressed, fix breakfast, eat breakfast, drive to work, read and understand highway signs, park a car, go to an office, and do various kinds of work. Thought can be employed whenever it might be useful and can then can be suspended whenever its usefulness has ended. Unless one is a theoretical physicist 95% of one's day would not require thought, yet the body would function intelligently throughout that entire period of time.
Speed readers know (through direct experience) that a book can be read and understood without linear verbalized thought, but a non-speed reader cannot imagine how that is possible. The same intelligence that allows a book to be understood in silence is operating everywhere, but it can't be seen or appreciated until the reflective overlay of thought is temporarily suspended. If there is no interest in going beyond thought and experiencing Reality directly, then what is being pointed to on this website will never be seen, understood, or appreciated.
