To Box or Not to Box? That is the Question!
Today I was talking to Dr. Yuen about a certain type of people—the ones who think ‘they’ve seen it all’, he called them (with no judgmental attachment to his voice).
“Oh yea”, I agreed, “the ones who try to fit the Method into something they already know, as opposed to those who leave room for something new to come along.” (I like to explore human mindsets, you see.)
Pause to explore.
And now the question: What type of person, do you think, learns the something new faster? The one who thinks he’s seen it all, or the one who thinks there might be something new to see? The one who has a been there/done that attitude, or the one who looks for something new to experience? The one who tries to fit the everchanging peg into the neverchanging hole or …..Time’s up!
If we try to fit the Yuen Method into the reality we’ve already structured for ourselves, a large part of its infinite potential is lost from the get-go.
Why can’t it be OK not to know everything about life? What if someone else knows something more about it than we do? We aren’t going to lose face or die, or lose the ability to think for ourselves, are we?…..Oh well, enough said.
I find that Dr. Yuen’s technique constantly changes and evolves, but thanks mostly to Dr. Yuen. I truly believe that if it weren’t for his fearless, nonjudgmental approach to limitless existence that the whole method would be more like a religion.
The first thing many of us do, consciously or unconsciously, when exposed to the Yuen Method is try to peg it—make it fit with what we already know. It’s kind of a logical mind thing or a security issue we have with boundaryless states of existence. Sad to say, most of us want our boundaries like a baby wants a pacifier.
Dr. Yuen’s approach to life , on the other hand, is limitless and, therefore, much more freaking fearless. Thank goodness, too. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it—be nonjudgmental and fearless enough to connect with any and all of the answers out there.
Somebody has to be OK with not boxing up chunks of infinity. Someone has to be open to everchanging questions, everchanging answers and the truth of infinite human potential, even if most of us can’t stand that approach—even if 99.999% of us want to put a box around life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not to mention the afterlife.
Now that I’ve mentioned it, the afterlife, religions are notorious for putting a box around what is possible and what isn’t, well into the afterlife. OK, OK, sometimes the box is bigger, as in the case of Snake Handlers sometimes it’s smaller, as in the case of the Born-Agains, but there’s still a box. Let’s face it. Those dudes who head up religions have your afterlife in a box!
Here’s the bottom line, people. Let anyone who boxes up infinity dictate your life too much, and you’ll confine your search for answers to a structured box someone else made. It’s a security thing or a karmic thing, or some other thing…but whatever the thing is, infinity gets severely affected. Infinity is not meant to live inside a box. It’s sacrilege!
The problem with Infinity is, it’s pretty much an impossible concept for our logical minds to deal with, and the poor logical mind wants logical answers. Infinity just ain’t logical, but ((big but)) that’s where intuition comes in.
If we want to connect with all the answers for existence, we need to be able to access infinity. If we want to access infinity, we need to use the Yuen Method. The fact that the method pushes us toward destructuring reality as we know it might make us feel shaky at first…at second….at third. But, just because it’s something new, shouldn’t stop us in our push towards limitless potential. Try to put the Yuen Method into the box you already know and you’ve lost most of what’s available. Just experience it! just feel it!
Here’s some type of conclusion. If we want to learn the Yuen Method faster, we open to the possibility that it is something new, something we’ve never run across before. So we just shut our logical minds off, pretty much, especially when they start rampaging in a critical direction.
We let something new seep in, if no other reason, than just to see how it affects us.
Full speed ahead!
Tags: Dr. Yuen, infinity, thinking outside the box, Yuen Method