News – Knowing How To Know – Idries Shah

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week again let me bring to your attention an interesting excerpt from this thought provoking work, ‘Knowing How to Know’. In this work the author draws our attention to concealed patterns, normally invisible to our customary modes of thought.

Excerpt:

News

People don’t notice that they are, nowadays, reduced to getting their information from sources which specialize in providing it, not by thought, observation, informal contact or instruction.     

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Concluding today’s session.

Let us remember: Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are so indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. We feed the hunger blindly. Once the mechanism is brought to our attention and we begin to study it, it is as if a veil has been stripped off ordinary life, and we become freer in our action and choices.