Keeping a lid on it

Ever since I moved to Japan, I've been working very hard on trying not let logic control me. It's probably been the biggest change in my life since I was born (no, that's not a misprint or a joke...). At university, I had worked so hard at trying to bring logic as a guiding infuence in my life only to realise that once I began my training here in Japan, how limiting that kind of logic is.

One of the things that I have come to see is that everything has it's place, even ways of thinking. I never realised it at the time but logic in my university days was setting me up for disaster. Not in the sense that most people think of as being a disaster but in a way that is more subtle.

Carl Jung said once that, "Before the bar of fate and nature, unconsciousness is never accepted as an excuse. In fact there are very severe penalties for it."

Perhaps the most interesting thing for me at the moment is how being unaware of your environment and what's around you (at all levels) IS the most surefire way of being aware.

Sigh... this is very, very dificult to explain.....

Sleiman