and thinking and speaking are special kinds of living special kinds of
physical ongoing living and they have their own continuity so the whole taa
procedure which is fairly simple is also philosophically speaking a a smashing
smashing attack you might say on the current philosophy noticed that
each individual is an endless intricacy really and each individual experiences
an enormous amount of articulated sense that life makes and problems that it
makes in question so degenerates and every individual is immense fund of what
culture in the public language never heard of and if you do the TA a
procedure you will be saying things that have never been said in the history of
the world one thing about the TI is while it's in the middle period while
we're while we're going through it there's always a sort of struggle and
and pain and difficulty but at the end people are very excited they've
discovered that they can think and now that I have done this with people a lot
I really at first I was surprised but now I'm not I see that of course we all
learned that thinking is that other thing we learned of thinking means you
put yourself away and you learn certain checker pieces and then you rearrange
them and give them back that thinking is something separate from the person and
that is so prevailing you know not them get it so with that being thinking most
people come away from their school years feeling that they can't think it's not
their thing and they can't really do it and they just accept that they get
tremendously excited when they discover that of course they can think it's this
this it's this it's making terms directly from what you already living
lino it's making sentences in which the words can mean what they've never meant
before but what they mean for you and you can go back in there and say
what is that we're doing in my sentence and it opens up and you have more and
this is a subtler much more precise kind of thinking than we learn even in
philosophy and yet it's a procedure that you can teach and you can empower people
to think so I am very very strident on this matter that don't tell people that
they can't think anything that isn't already in the library just the opposite
what's already in the library we don't need them to think what you haven't yet
said that's where there is value and the more private it seems the further away
from the public language it is the more it's going to be important to all of us
when you can articulate it from there there are a lot of very precise very
well worked out historically famous systems and strategies and kinds of
concepts which one learns and any one of those is enriching and interesting and
helpful and that you can't really replace but at the end of all of that to
not be trapped in one of these but to be able to use all of them or any of them
and to see what you can get from all of them or any of them you need to stand
again in your own experience in your own felt ongoingness which is this intricate
complexity inside of of life and if you stand there then you can use any and all
of these four strategies and it turns out and this is really shocking to me it
turns out that even if you don't know any of them you can still do something
from there you can still formulate what you know that hasn't been said and can't
be said in the public language you can still formulate that even though you
don't have all this machinery and training and facility to be able to
think about how come you can say it how language actually works what it is all
those things which I think immensely valuable and spent my life on
you actually don't have to have them for this one practice this one purpose this
one capacity to put into the world what hasn't been said yet that you are
carrying from your particular experience