Chapter 10: Gathering Twigs

[Daniel]

The 1st part to look at when facing the east corner is knowledge. In this explanation I am using a theme of gathering twigs which is symbolic of gathering knowledge.


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   Twigs, (small fibers of awareness) that we collect from our walk across the forest floor. That twig has a glow, and we make a small direct leap to gather it and place it in our bag. When we have enough glowing twigs, we may build our nest.

Amongst all the noise, many don't notice the small acts.

[Daniel]

Some twigs are of no use

But -value- is a personal theme and one can pick and choose depending upon relevance and what one wishes to build their dream out of. We all live in our personal dreams, which are our nests.

[Daniel]

This forum in a way is a dream-scene, or a collection of. Dreams are generated from dreamers who release layers. The hunter gatherers can only really gather their twigs from that which has been released. We can call these dream scenes forests, or woods with masses of awareness. Awareness being the wood.
   The advantage that the hunter gatherer has is that he or she can select or unselect the twigs. Having done the walk through the woodland of awareness, having gathered many twigs of knowledge, the hunter throws away that which is of no value for constructing the nest of his own dream.

But 1st, the hunter must take the woodland walk and gather. One must become a seeker of valuable knowledge and explore the woodlands.

This is the east path.

[Daniel]

The hunter must also know how to, and practice ridding themself of the dead wood, of the non-glowing twigs.

For example, if we have job, a work placement, then the knowledge involved in that glows and has relevance for the functioning of that duty. If we are no longer required to uphold that duty then all the knowledge we had about it and the systems of its functionality become redundant. Hence some twigs glow for a set amount of time. We may start a new job, and if similar to the previous we may again use some of the same knowledge or systems. If so then those twigs glow again.

The nest that is built from the woodlands of awareness is a house, yet it is a 3D functioning structure that carries us for set moments within our life-span. Because of this, we know that the scenery often changes, as does the requirement of our acts.
 

[Daniel]

The management of awareness can be broken down for understanding: Simplicity is the key really. Let us refer to the triangle as a logic root.


Awareness =

• Thinking awareness
• Practical awareness
• Thoughtless awareness

The twigs are essentially this awareness, and thinking awareness spreads out our attention into integration or seperation. The integration maps out a unity through our acts with that around us. 3 more points of a triangle become a connected movement, these are:

• People awareness
• Technological awareness
• Environmental awareness

The glow of awareness around us kindles whatever comes into our scope through action. Within that is a further way of seeing awareness as we are engaged in that action.
Technological awareness involves a doing and that doing has 3 themes of usage that interplay, creating that doing. Take one away and it wont function as a doing. These are:

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Tools

 

[Daniel]

Rather than look at what a hunter is hunting, what they are trying to attain, we can look instead at the hunting method. That method is the engagement of awareness, regardless of the type of attainment. Not just the method though, but what twigs have been gathered through the activity must become a main theme. 

- When the hunter has reached the time to come out of the woodlands, he or she must declare what twigs are being taken into eternity. How much is to be carried by the hunter, what awareness is within that and then these gathered twigs are placed to be fired by our will. Our will sparks these and our east is no longer wood, it is fire.

[Daniel]

There are a few distractions that seemingly disturb our clear focus on our east path. here is 1 that comes to my mind, but you may have others that come to your mind.

 The obsession of sporting events as vehicles to achieve attainment largely moves the focal point of the hunter. The target of the hunter in this case becomes transfixed upon attainment. This is distracting. Such a focus is nothing other than the path of clumsiness. That attainment value is a temporary thing to hold, a trophy for a moment. My view is that this wastes time, time we don't have, because we suddenly realise we are in our 30's and we have not progressed much as men of knowledge.   

[Daniel]

This is actually quite dangerous. Not only because it makes a loud noise, but because one learns to hoard as a hunter, to accumulate, and to seek attainment at any cost.
Genrally speaking, because of this, women are better hunters than men. Men feel vacant without attaining some symbol of a hunted item to express personal value or worth 
 

[Daniel]

A way to hunt knowledge:

A hunter does not wear shoes that make a loud noise. This is because he or she does not consider themself important. The soles of the shoes are flat so that the heal of the foot is close to the earth for balance. The music that the walker makes is not loud and clumsy. The feet are placed lightly upon the earth being and not stomped on her head. The hunter is not in hidding, but the silence is simply more in tune with the center. The hunter is not too proud to run if he is leaped towards by ill intented men. The hunter wears his noise as his coat. The footsteps are the pivotal points of this music. The hunter does not become bored because he knows that he is walking through the woodlands gathering twigs until the time comes. When there is nothing to do he rests on his own silence

[Daniel]

In the cultivation of knowledge there are 2 elements that are interwoven. The left part is what one witnesses through a kind of dreamers-gaze, by observing life and the energy and timing that things send off. Much can be read from this. The right part is this hunter way, a method or approach to gathering knowledge that may be used by the one walking the earth.