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Towards the Openness

Douwe Tiemersma Towards the Openness Translated by Robert Powell and Frank Anderson Illustrations by Daan van Beek English translation of the Dutch Naar de Openheid, Mirananda, Wassenaar 1983 100 pages € 10,50 ISBN 90 805739 1 4 Order: e-mail Contents 1. Getting started 2. Bewilderment 3. Intuition 4. Attention 5. Clarity 6. Evaluation and choice 7. Desire 8. Will 9. The Guru 10. Energy 11. Play 12. Purity 13. Trust 14. Being at home 15. Love and happiness 16. Certain knowledge 17. Consciousness 18. Being-consciousness 19. Your hand, your body 20. Silence 21. Openness And many poetical texts ‘In principle the Openness is ever present; it is, however, limited by self-drawn boundaries. Hedges are put between gardens, labyrinths installed in which people get lost. Everyone closes himself in and stares at a wall. You too, however, are birds who shouldn’t forget you can fly and thereby view the world from afar. Then all boundaries become so relative that they can dissolve and vaporise in the Openness. That Openness contains everything within itself, yet is not limited by anything. Then, there are no more questions and problems, no ‘I’ and the ‘other’, only the Self, which becomes so tenuous that it merges into the Absolute.’ (p. 99) For orders: Click here