I have spent about a decade now nibbling around the edges of people's desire to skip the rich, complex story and go to the dry summary, which is what "understand" seems usually to mean....
That is a great point. Some people think they would find Eternity boring and i am not sure i am not one of them. Taoist philosophy, to the extent that i "understand" it, seems to ask its followers to seek what many people would call "boredom."-- stillness, silence, emptiness, doing "not-doing."
I think that part of the "practicality" of Underhill's book is that she is not recommending contemplation as a full time occupation. She wanted people to be effective in the material world as well as serene in the Real Universe. She thinks that this can be done
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I think that part of the "practicality" of Underhill's book is that she is not recommending contemplation as a full time occupation. She wanted people to be effective in the material world as well as serene in the Real Universe. She thinks that this can be done
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