Koan: What is Your Chief Hidden Talent?
I have discovered a therapeutic method which is guaranteed to shorten your therapeutic/awakening process from 20 or 30 years to 1 year. In just one year of study and practice, you could acquire the chief Transformation Tool with which you can realize your potential very speedily. Stress and suffering can be reduced by increased awareness instead of being sugar-coated, denied, rationalized, self-medicated or symptomatized.
What is this Transformation Tool? It is your greatest, hidden and undeveloped talent. Do you know what your greatest talent is? I don’t mean gardening, painting, auto repair, or playing music. Those are expressions of your most fundamental talent. I dare you to make “What is my greatest talent?” into a koan, a puzzle, an inquiry.
You can begin this inquiry by asking yourself: “What is my greatest shame and my greatest pride and what do they have in common?”
“What is my greatest fault and my greatest virtue, and what do they have in common?”
“What is it that creates my nightmares and my daydreams?”
“What is it that creates my pleasures and my pains?”
“What talent of mine have I most ignored, denied, slighted and degraded?”
One clue about this talent is that you use it 24/7.
The second clue about this ability is that it controls everything you think, feel, say and do. What is it?
Third clue: Your chief hidden talent is the same chief talent that everyone has.
Without this hidden talent you would not be human.
This ability is the essence of your spirituality.
Some people consciously know more about this faculty than others, but none of us realizes its full significance and power.
If we did know, our suffering would be over.
This talent is the power behind transformation.
This gift is the secret of the ages.
This ability is played down and distorted in education, politics, science, psychology, theology and psychotherapy, as well as society in general.
This capability is the secret of the gods.
What is it, which when misused, brings hell, and understood brings heaven?
This talent has many different names, but let’s be sure we have gotten to the deepest level of our inquiry, guessing and naming.
I am open to your feedback, comments, questions. I will listen to what you say, walk around it a dozen times and see if I can poke holes in it. I will create scenarios to test the answer. I will play the devil’s advocate.
After all, the answer to this question is critical for your future and mine, as well as for the future of this planet. The answer to this question is the clue to our anxiety and to our personal evolution. Is it worth our concern and investigation? The answer to this question determines how much power you have and what the limits of your power are.
The koan I am offering you is:
“What is your primary unrecognized talent?”
“What is the cause of your successes and failures?"
“What is the cause of your happiness and unhappiness?”
“What is the cause of your health and your illness?”
All of these questions can be answered with one word. Come on, play with me.
What is this Transformation Tool? It is your greatest, hidden and undeveloped talent. Do you know what your greatest talent is? I don’t mean gardening, painting, auto repair, or playing music. Those are expressions of your most fundamental talent. I dare you to make “What is my greatest talent?” into a koan, a puzzle, an inquiry.
You can begin this inquiry by asking yourself: “What is my greatest shame and my greatest pride and what do they have in common?”
“What is my greatest fault and my greatest virtue, and what do they have in common?”
“What is it that creates my nightmares and my daydreams?”
“What is it that creates my pleasures and my pains?”
“What talent of mine have I most ignored, denied, slighted and degraded?”
One clue about this talent is that you use it 24/7.
The second clue about this ability is that it controls everything you think, feel, say and do. What is it?
Third clue: Your chief hidden talent is the same chief talent that everyone has.
Without this hidden talent you would not be human.
This ability is the essence of your spirituality.
Some people consciously know more about this faculty than others, but none of us realizes its full significance and power.
If we did know, our suffering would be over.
This talent is the power behind transformation.
This gift is the secret of the ages.
This ability is played down and distorted in education, politics, science, psychology, theology and psychotherapy, as well as society in general.
This capability is the secret of the gods.
What is it, which when misused, brings hell, and understood brings heaven?
This talent has many different names, but let’s be sure we have gotten to the deepest level of our inquiry, guessing and naming.
I am open to your feedback, comments, questions. I will listen to what you say, walk around it a dozen times and see if I can poke holes in it. I will create scenarios to test the answer. I will play the devil’s advocate.
After all, the answer to this question is critical for your future and mine, as well as for the future of this planet. The answer to this question is the clue to our anxiety and to our personal evolution. Is it worth our concern and investigation? The answer to this question determines how much power you have and what the limits of your power are.
The koan I am offering you is:
“What is your primary unrecognized talent?”
“What is the cause of your successes and failures?"
“What is the cause of your happiness and unhappiness?”
“What is the cause of your health and your illness?”
All of these questions can be answered with one word. Come on, play with me.
posted by Dr. Joe at 2:54 AM
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