Everyone who's spent any
timebeing around Werner
takes away something valuable. You may not like
getting
what you
got
(truth
requires bone-numbing honesty). You may
love
what you
got.
Either
way
you'll
get
something valuable. No one leaves him remaining neutral to the
encounter.
What people
get,
ranges from the generic
universalhands-and-feet-on
experience
of
transformation,
to individual-specific insights which may be unique for each person.
From
my recent visit,
I came away with both the generic
universalexperience
(that can always be counted on) as well as an individual-specific
insight: the insight into exactly where
workability
in
the world
and in and with living, first flounders ie first goes awry, like an
insight into the
origination
of the first unintended yet inarguable flaw in an otherwise flawless
diamond.
Here's my ante for this
conversation
ie these are my chips for
this game
(try this on for size): it's just
possible
there's only one problem in
the world,
the problem from which all others arise. "Only one?" you
challenge, skeptically. Yes. I'm jus' sayin' it's
possible
there's only one problem in
the world,
the same one problem that there's in and with living: it's the problem
of where we come from. Furthermore it's just
possible
that any and / or all of the plethora of other problems in
the world
and in and with living, are all a hybrid of ie are all a
variant of (or at least are all
wholly
or in part predicated on) the problem of where we come
from. Now if you're
experiencing
a problem like a flat tire, and you ask me
how
to
fix
it, I can tell you. More than that, I can tell you in
simple,
easy
to follow
steps
what you can do about it. Heck, I can even
fix
your flat tire for you myself. That's
easy.
But when the problem is where we come from, it's not so
easy
to tell you in
simple
to follow
steps
what you can do about it, and it's nearly impossible for
me to
fix
it for you myself.
Why?
Here's
why
the former problem, a flat tire, is
easy
to
fix,
and
why
the latter problem, where we come from, is difficult to
fix,
even with
simple
to follow
steps.
It's not because a solution to it can't be
spoken
- because it can be. The problem is
the way
we
listen.
If you have a flat tire, you have almost
nothing
in
the way
of
listening
me say what to do about it. Whereas if someone says "The problem is
where you're coming from", there's a veritably impenetrable
concrete and lead slab ie a
barrier
in
the way
of
listening
what to do about it. We have a name for this
barrier:
it's called our
already always
listening.
And even if by the
wave
of a
magic
wand we could
disappear
our
already always listening,
and
listennewly
ie
listencrystal
clearlynewly,
there's still the likelihood of being unfamiliar with some of the
arguably more counter-intuitive
language
implements used to
coach
people to come from a place that
works.
You can however,
get
them if you
discover
them (and it) for yourself.