What is understanding – really?
Is it like standing under something and observing upwards, nearly?
Is it to give time and attention?
Is it to digest and swallow all, in the right direction, with intention?
And if so – what’s new?
I’m just exploring my understanding process, how is it with you?
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To me, understanding is experiencing, which is the point to these many lives. Thanks for this thought-provoking poem, Avigail!
thanks Louis , what about abstract things?
"Abstract: Considered apart from concrete existence", per the dictionary definition. The question then becomes, what of this world is not abstract?
ha ha - yes... everything eventually is in our heads - the mystery of understanding - expanding the old with the new - aha moments of insights together with the known...
Well put, Avigail.
after it residents in memory it becomes the known...
Well AVI ~ You know i am your MPS Disciple ~ so i always sit at your feet ~ is that the same as standing under you ~ in search of fully UNDERSTANDING YOU ? Love you lots ~ Hugs ~ BRIAN your faithful Disciple
dear Brain, be an explorer not a disciple we explore things together... multi-minds hugs and love
Avi, I like how you challenge us to think about things we just accept and take for granted.
According to the extremely useful and interesting Online Etymology Dictionary (www.etymonline.com), understand comes from old English. In those days, under did not mean "beneath", but "among, between", a semantic thread that goes all the way back to the Sanskrit word antar.
I guess 'understanding' happens when we connect the threads 'between' different inputs and choose 'among' different solutions.
i like semantic threads - we create new fabrics in our minds and that is understanding - Thank you FredPeyer 🙂
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