{"id":707,"date":"2011-07-23T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=707"},"modified":"2011-07-23T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:52:00","slug":"in-the-beginning-was-the-word-and-the-word-was-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning was the word, and the word was Lego."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-708\" href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?attachment_id=708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-708\" title=\"Lego Type lo res\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lego-Type-lo-res1-997x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lego-Type-lo-res1-997x1024.jpg 997w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lego-Type-lo-res1-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lego-Type-lo-res1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Less than a week ago I wrote this somewhere:<br \/>\n&#8220;When asked the obligate &#8216;how are you doing&#8217;, my answer<br \/>\nlately is: kind of the usual, having a quarrel on the net,<br \/>\nhaving a fight with my neighbour and have just started a<br \/>\nway of relating that includes the exchange of tantric energies&#8221;.<br \/>\nhaha.<br \/>\nIn this Yahoogroup that I was referring to as having this quarrel<br \/>\ngoing on, the energy rose to such a level that it lead to this this<br \/>\nmorning (that there is a cause\/effect is just speculation):<br \/>\n=====================================<br \/>\nHello All.<\/p>\n<p>This morning after waking up I stayed with closed eyes,<br \/>\nsinking into the pain and confusion related to let&#8217;s say<br \/>\nthe last thread, the &#8216;me disputed&#8217; one, and me going on,<br \/>\nunstoppable.<\/p>\n<p>(Was happily surprized that I could still enter here, and in<br \/>\na way it didn&#8217;t matter any more and yet am totally happy<br \/>\nabout being able to share the following with you:)<\/p>\n<p>At some point, in front of my closed eyes, language was<br \/>\ndeconstructed into particles. And by that very movement<br \/>\neverything about language lightened up, cleared up.<\/p>\n<p>The thought came later as this: lego alphabet.<br \/>\n(Curious already for what pic I will find for that).<\/p>\n<p>And, and, and.<br \/>\nThis was a long awaited and in a way fought for event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the beginning was the word, etc&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the inconvenience.<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>hans<br \/>\n=========<\/p>\n<p>This let&#8217;s say struggle with language has been going for decades.<br \/>\nOne of the moments that kind of started an opening up, was in<br \/>\nsatsang with Isaac Shapiro in 2003.<br \/>\nThe text of this is on my old website, but here it is reproduced:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0All this meaning!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">Germany, Chiemsee, september 7, 2003.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">&gt;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">You\u2019re welcome to speak if you like and there is no need.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">&lt;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">I want to look into a question that is already with me for three years or so. Three years ago I asked the same question to Gopal [nowadays called Lodewijk] and he made a complete fool out of me for asking it. So, when I realised that I was going to ask this question to you I had to say that there was a double agenda: proving that it wasn\u2019t a stupid question. But that part is dissolved completely. And it has changed into a complete different question; it\u2019s the same words but it\u2019s a question not from this mental storm but almost from here [the heart]. The question then was kind of a test: when I look when my mind is completely quiet to a text in my language, then immediatly I see the meaning, so the mind is not quiet. That was my idea. And now I can see that there is an immense longing to, let\u2019s say, a pre verbal or pre language state. And just, when I was sitting over there, I could see that is is a wanting away from all this meaning. And yesterday you said to someone \u2018just take all the objects away, then you get awareness\u2019. But how does awareness know that it exists? I think, then, there is no knowing if existence.And in a way I found out that with this question, where I am longing for is at the same time dangerous. It\u2019s connected really with the fear of dying. And really practical; after the last retreat in Venwoude, when I was in this hyper energetic state we made this excursion to this Babaji ashram and I didn\u2019t dare drive my car because I had flashes of only seeing colours, so I had the fear when I would drive my car I could drive into a wall because of the attractiveness of its colour. So I am longing for something that is dangerous. So, here is a confusion. I want to look into this. It is as if the basic mind without nonsense has something like I won\u2019t leave you before I know it\u2019s safe. And maybe this is an enlightened mind fuck. I have no clou.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">Follows a silence of more than six minutes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">&gt;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Nothing comes to my mind to say. And I enjoy hanging out with you very much.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">&lt;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Maybe I\u2019ll come up with another question next time. But now it\u2019s totally empty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">&gt;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Welcome.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td height=\"21\" valign=\"top\">&gt;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Thank you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So far, so good.<br \/>\nThis feels as a very important step for mankind, especially for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week ago I wrote this somewhere: &#8220;When asked the obligate &#8216;how are you doing&#8217;, my answer lately is: kind of the usual, having a quarrel on the net, having a fight with my neighbour and have just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,33,34,40],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-blog","tag-in-the-beginning-was-the-word","tag-language","tag-lego","tag-oerpuzzel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lego-Type-lo-res1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tD9I-bp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}