Wednesday, September 7, 2016

FAST AND SLOW STREAMS


                                           FAST AND SLOW STREAMS                              


Sometimes it is hard to know when to enter the stream. It is only after I am in it that I 

can say how, when, why and where I did. The decision could be fast or slow akin to

Daniel Kahneman’s research and wisdom on how we think or not which include two

systems which I choose to understand as two streams. Impetuous, labored or both. 

The Jewel Mirror of Samadhi is a very old text which has different translations and 

many streams. Yet it flows through centuries. It reminds us that a hairs breadth 

deviation and it is missed. What is missed? Life, the right choice?  Is this a sudden 

or gradual realization? Is it both? It is not merely physical. These are the costs in the 

emotional bank account that include a certain kind of cognitive ease and comfort we 

can exist in.

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