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Originally Posted by sentient
Yes that - and also just letting go of one’s preconceived ideas/concepts and notions of what “should be” & letting Reality show “What Is” instead.
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That's pretty much the whole Buddhist religion right there teehee.
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“What is” thus being an open question as well as witnessing the unfoldment of the answer.
Trungpa I think associated it with “The sudden introduction of Nowness”.
(P.S. When leaving Melbourne - I had made a firm intent though to get to know Indigenous Australians …. So the ‘teaching’ started from the very first day in Darwin and with that I was hooked).
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I haven't been in touch with the Aboriginal culture, either the modern urban side of it or the old outback side, but I took a few units in Indigenous Studies at Sydney University to at least learn a few things about all that.
I did a small research project when I worked in Social Services into how to provide Cultural Competency Training to non-aboriginal social workers, so I ran focus groups with Aboriginal Social Service workers to find out how to get that done. The research went to Family Services NSW to inform their policy on Social Services training for the Homelessness sector. I quickly found out that Aboriginal Services is different to how white fellas think, and I realised it was going to be impossible to communicate it to the non-Aboriginals at Family Services, and I realised, this is what the Aboriginals have been struggling to communicate all this time. Anyway, they had their say, and I basically transcribed the relevant parts word for word, so the research looked like a play rather than your typical document, and it was strangely heartfelt for policy research. It was a pretty amazing experience I'll never forget.
I did the same sort of study with other minority groups including the LGBT's and 'multicultural/refugee', but those two were straightforward cuz we knew that stuff already anyway, and done in the usual way - The Aboriginal one was another level. It was much more creative because it had to be done in an unusual way for it to make any sense.