{"id":467,"date":"2022-06-12T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2022-06-12T12:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T12:33:23","slug":"prisoners-of-our-transitory-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/prisoners-of-our-transitory-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners of Our Transitory Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember this about \u2018Attention\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled \u2018Prisoners of Our Transitory Knowledge\u2019 from the book titled \u2018The Heart of the Hunter\u2019 by Lauren Van Der Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this book the author describes his desert travels, the splendid landscape and wildlife, and his encounters with the Bushman \u2013 the first people of Southern Africa, an elusive culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prisoners of Our Transitory Knowledge<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intellectually, modern humans know almost all there is to know about the pattern of creation in themselves, the forms it takes, the surface designs it describes. We have measured the pitch of its rhythms and carefully recorded all the mechanics. From the outside we see the desirable first<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

object of life more clearly perhaps than humans have ever seen it before. But less and less does we experience the process within.<\/strong> Less and less are we capable of committing ourselves body and soul to the creative experiment that is continually seeking to fire us and to charge our little life with great objective meaning. Cut off by accumulated knowledge from the heart of our own living experience, we move amongst a comfortable rubble of material possession, alone and unbelonging, sick, poor, starved of meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

From ‘The Heart of the Hunter’ by Lauren Van Der Post.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/158258.The_Heart_of_the_Hunter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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