You understand what you see, you see it, you experience it, give it a label, but what is the mechanism that allows this perception? There is a process that exists between the world and your body, and this process manifests itself as your awareness here and now. If we stop and examine it, we realize that we cannot at once experience our lived experience, and at the same time experience the mechanisms that give this lived experience both it's primacy, and immediacy.
You can do a task like cooking, in the flow state, where everything just comes together. However while you're cooking you're not aware of all the mechanisms that are running hidden from you. All the calculations your brain is making to put water in a pot, heat the water, cook the meat, steam the vegetables etc, are essentially hidden from your conscious awareness. You can only focus on doing, you have to live in a form of ignorance to those machinations because they ultimately do exist, and always run in the background if you but stop and pay attention. However, if you do pay attention, you find you no longer are doing what you were previously doing, rather focusing on the mechanisms involved in what you were doing.
Therefore, when one does something, there is an implicit faith behind the action. Since we cannot both do, and understand what is causing us to do, we must choose one over the other, and thus accept ignorance in faith that those mechanisms we partially perceive, and partially label, are in fact real phenomena.
You understand what you see, you see it, you experience it, give it a label, but what is the mechanism that allows this perception? There is a process that exists between the world and your body, and this process manifests itself as your awareness here and now. If we stop and examine it, we realize that we cannot at once experience our lived experience, and at the same time experience the mechanisms that give this lived experience both it's primacy, and immediacy.
You can do a task like cooking, in the flow state, where everything just comes together. However while you're cooking you're not aware of all the mechanisms that are running hidden from you. All the calculations your brain is making to put water in a pot, heat the water, cook the meat, steam the vegetables etc, are essentially hidden from your conscious awareness. You can only focus on doing, you have to live in a form of ignorance to those machinations because they ultimately do exist, and always run in the background if you but stop and pay attention. However, if you do pay attention, you find you no longer are doing what you were previously doing, rather focusing on the mechanisms involved in what you were doing.
Therefore, when one does something, there is an implicit faith behind the action. Since we cannot both do, and understand what is causing us to do, we must choose one over the other, and thus accept ignorance in faith that those mechanisms we partially perceive, and partially label, are in fact real phenomena.
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