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My own reading of this iconic phrase out of context: Is that it asks us to pay attention to the gap BETWEEN thoughts. A way of meditation. The gap here being the space of awareness between mental activity, which, this space of awareness is always there, present, when there is thought and when there is no thought. | My own reading of this iconic phrase out of context: Is that it asks us to pay attention to the gap BETWEEN thoughts. A way of meditation. The gap here being the space of awareness between mental activity, which, this space of awareness is always there, present, when there is thought and when there is no thought. | ||
The phrase also reminds me of Aldous Huxley's last novel 'Island' 1962 where a Utopian, social experiment functions on an island called Pala. There, the community have trained Parrots to say 'Attention. Here and now, boys, here and now', a method of helping the people stay in the present moment. - http://www.huxley.net/island/ | |||
Others could take this in other directions, the gap between education and work or cultural gaps. Or physical gaps, like the one between the two libraries in Weimar... | Others could take this in other directions, the gap between education and work or cultural gaps. Or physical gaps, like the one between the two libraries in Weimar... | ||