awakening mind - primal knowledge

"...The knower is transformed in a dynamic process; the knower and the known become unified through immediate mutual participation.
Primal knowledge belongs to the Buddhist traditions as well. Here, too, the primary challenge is moving beyond the egocentric mind. In letting go of the "object of knowledge," genuine knowledge is realized; in letting go of the ego–knower, primal knowledge is realized. Knowledge blossoms with the awakening mind that participates in the boundless interplay of things.

In Zen experience, the interplay between the knower and the known is so profound that egocentric language is totally inadequate. The connection is like that in archer, where archer, bow, arrow, the action of taking aim, and the target all merge to become a holistic process. Knowledge is more about the process of awakening mind than about "content" of thought or "object" of knowledge. This is the Zen way of knowing. "

From:
"The Awakening of Primal Knowledge"
by Dr. Ashok K. Gangadean
from Parabola, The Magazine of Myth & Tradition
Spring 1997
http://www.awakeningmind.org/pages/pkarticle.php

coincidence? - from the Guardian : discuss!

Have a look at http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/dec/20/ipod-instinct

Extract:
"Instinct acts as a kind of behavioural satnav. It's a quiet and reassuring inner voice that will always give you guidance, provided you can be bothered to tune into it. However, humans are always suspicious of inner voices, especially if there's more than one of them.

Instinct is the accumulated wisdom of a thousand generations of human beings hard-wired into our little heads. Sadly, this is then very quickly obscured by the formal process of education. Instinct is a mixture of the common sense that tells you when something supposedly good is actually a load of cobblers, and also of the uncommon sense that warns you of things that normally come without warning.

Seeing things with your own eyes is generally held to be a good way of verifying things. But eyes are screens, and like any screen they don't tell the whole story. Getting a feel for things is much more effective because it lets your sixth sense have a sniff around. As a French philosopher once said, instinct is the nose of the mind. It sounds slightly odd, but instinctively you know it's right. "

By Guy Browning
The Guardian, Saturday 20 December 2008