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Self Inquiry: Its Meaning and Direction 127 4. The rate of realization is directly proportional to the amount of and quality of energy and attention applied to the quest. 5. Illusions are the great obstacles to Truth, and the dispelling of these illusions involves the improvement of the inadequate factors mentioned in premise Number Two, and better control over them. This process involves an everconscious schooling of the mind, so that it will be an instrument of Truth. (Rose, 1978, p. 1945).
128 Richard Rose’s Psychology of the Observer: The Path to Reality Through the Self Chapter 7 An Approach to Validity Once these prerequisite guiding principles of the path are understood as a foundation, how does one begin to inquire? We begin by coming to know the extent of our ignorance. Recognizing one’s current state of confusion is the first big step towards wisdom. Rose repeatedly asks us: “What do you know for sure? Do you believe more than you really know?” This is a most humbling question. We must ask ourselves serious questions about our nature and identity, about the meaning of life on earth, about why we are driven to keep reproducing relentlessly, about the workings of thought and mind, about the possibility of spiritual knowledge, about knowing. When we do, we will become increasingly troubled by the admission of our lack of answers. We come to realize how much of our lives has been lived in a dull haze of assumption and belief, of projection and pretension, in comforting sleep that buffers us from existential terror at the unknowingand become aware that time is running out. Are we anything more than automatic meat, racing on a treadmill to oblivion? We must begin to define the real issues that define what we are. Following is a series of questions posed by Rose in various writings and talks (Rose, 1979a, p. 3945; 1988, p. 211225; lectures 1979, 1986). It outlines some of the major themes in his teaching. The questions can be seen to form a pattern. They have a direction. They are pointing at something. His approach to teaching is evident in the way these questions negate our common bluff of relying upon unexamined convention, and discriminate between shades of meaning relevant to the central topic of final selfdefinition. The range of questions delineate the territory that must be covered in the search and bring into sharp focus all the specific factors that must be understood in order for one to truly know the self and have comprehension of our experience of life. Each question contains a hundred other questions. Answering the questions is not the whole path, but Rose would certainly say that one is not on a mature path if one is not working to answer them. The questions confront the seeker headon, and one must resist the reflex to blink and turn away, or lazily rationalize in trust that “God” knows and “that’s good enough for me.” These questions define an approach to validity. Rose wishes to back the seeker into objective knowledge and discovery. These questions are actually some of the real, living koans that will lead to such knowledge.
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