Tena koe David (A New Zealand greeting) Really enjoyed your observations and comments about truth, conflict & much besides.
Your Hebrews reference about strangers and angels reminded me of a recent conversations with a missionary friend just back from China. He was rushing to catch a train about to depart the platform when he tripped. His leg plunged down between the platform and the carriage and he was overwhelmed by searing pain, yet aware he had only moment to extract himself from his stuck state before the train pulled out from the platform. Suddenly he was pulled clear by this Chinese stranger who helped him into the carriage as the door slammed shut and the train departed. No words passed between the two, as my friend fought to hold consciousness, while the pain rolled over and over him. When he got to his destination the man helped him off the train , without a word, and when Steve composed himself and cleared his head enough to thank this kindly stranger- he was gone! In truth, Steve had no doubts that this was an angelic helper sent by the creator to assist servant, whose time had not come. Such things happen all the time to this wonderful man of God. with arohanui trev -----Original Message----- From: David Adams [mailto:da...@adamsassociates.com] Sent: Monday, 3 September 2001 11:12 To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Truth, conflict and much besides It is amazing to come back from a brief holiday to find an explosion of emails about Truth! What truly wonderful people inhabit this list... We have a dialogue group here in Scotland and one of our recent topics was Conflict. It was fascinating to discover as our dialogue developed that our understanding and embrace of Conflict changed radically in the group. What initially we approached as an issue associated with stress, disturbance and avoidance, became something deeper and it emerged, grew and finally developed in our appreciation as a valuable and necessary stage in the unfolding of insight and perception and sharing of truth. So we could see that without conflict we would lose a vital window on reality. But only if we went beyond the 'stuck place' of sides in conflict, and could enlarge our vision to consider the totality of what the conflict was about. This resonated strongly for me with what Krishnamurti used to emphasise, that one must see what is, directly and clearly, without judgement, thought or interpretation. As one sees and feels with clarity and vital, passionate awareness, the distinction between observer and what is observed - the conscious but artificial human duality - is clearly an illusion. Truth is the reflection - experience - of oneself in the particluar state of attention and observation that is happening. And here one learns. There is something very liberating about this and it seems to resonate beautifully with all that has been said and experienced about letting go in facilitating open space. Lastly, I cannot resist this line from the letter to Hebrews 13 that was read in church today, "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." With great appreciation. David David Adams Adams Associates Meadowhead, by Cleish, Kinross, UK, KY13 0LP Tel: 44 (0) 1577 850330 Fax: 44 (0) 1577 850285 Mobile: 0797 1092167 Email: soluti...@adamsassociates.co.uk <mailto:soluti...@adamsassociates.co.uk> Web site: http://www.adamsassociates.co.uk <http://www.adamsassociates.co.uk> * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html