Sunday, December 25, 2011

West versus East

West versus East

Before we can dig into the details, we need to start with an over-view of how Eastern and Western thought differs, in the most fundamental of ways.

We Westerners are trained from birth to use our logical, analytical, conscious mind our three pounds of meat. From our earliest age we learn to name, to sort out, to categorize. We may not grow up to be scientists, but we learn to think according to the scientific method, and we worship at the feet of the great thinkers: Einstein; Newton; Steven Hawking. In a very fundamental way, we learn to distinguish to separate out ourselves, our people, our places and things, and our beliefs from everything else that is out there.

Eastern thought is the polar opposite. They attempt to quiet their active chattering mind, so that their inner subconscious can emerge. Through that practice, they come to see and believe in an underlying (and conscious) universal Whole, of which they are only a part. From that different perspective, life changes in very fundamental ways. One small example: The only logical approach to conducting my life is to focus on optimizing the whole of things. Since Imp not separate from the whole, if there is really only one person in the room, then how can I ever capture things for myself, at the expense of others? Related Products

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