Satori
One of the properties of enlightenment is that it's not infinite. It is recurring, and incremental. (Another wording: the first realization is kensho, and the deeper realizations that follow are satori.)
In writing the previous entry, I decided to peruse my past ones (I got back into 2005 before I called it).
I pondered opening them up (I had tended to keep to a policy of protected entries, so that only friends, or a subset thereof, could read them). I decided I'll go through them to do so with minor exceptions.
And I realized (satori): whatever other talents I may possess, impaired or not, one I retain a masterful command of is that of language. I have always been particularly adept at the written and spoken word, in communicating clearly when necessary and precisely when felt like, and this extends beyond both my native English into "foreign" languages as well as into computer languages (as well as "languages" - symbolic representations of some underlying concepts - that are limited to abstract symbolic manipulation, archetype being mathematics).
And this is why it's recurring, incremental: I know this. I've known it for years. I periodically reflect upon this. I orient my life around it (coding, essays, plans for books...). And yet I can be so blind to it that I can blink my eyes and be surprised at the realization made anew.
At 0400, it's much too late to write any further. Besides, there's some sound foundations to be laid first.
In writing the previous entry, I decided to peruse my past ones (I got back into 2005 before I called it).
I pondered opening them up (I had tended to keep to a policy of protected entries, so that only friends, or a subset thereof, could read them). I decided I'll go through them to do so with minor exceptions.
And I realized (satori): whatever other talents I may possess, impaired or not, one I retain a masterful command of is that of language. I have always been particularly adept at the written and spoken word, in communicating clearly when necessary and precisely when felt like, and this extends beyond both my native English into "foreign" languages as well as into computer languages (as well as "languages" - symbolic representations of some underlying concepts - that are limited to abstract symbolic manipulation, archetype being mathematics).
And this is why it's recurring, incremental: I know this. I've known it for years. I periodically reflect upon this. I orient my life around it (coding, essays, plans for books...). And yet I can be so blind to it that I can blink my eyes and be surprised at the realization made anew.
At 0400, it's much too late to write any further. Besides, there's some sound foundations to be laid first.