Last night, I was listening to Adyashanti’s Process of Self talk on the Waking Up app.
He says that our culture doesn’t really understand contemplation anymore: what it means to sit and contemplate something.
Our cultural view of contemplation is thinking hard on something until the right belief pops out. We hear “know thyself” and immediately latch on to our beliefs, our past and our narratives.
But that’s just ruminating, not contemplating. We think everything has a solution and that the solution takes the form of a propositional belief: facts, rules, theories and beliefs.