"A thing is perfect when it is
the way
it is. When it is not
the way
it is then it is flawed. Life is always
the way
it is, hence perfect. It did not work
the way
I wanted it to. It worked
the way
it worked, and only that way. I just needed to get
my fingers
out of
the machinery.".
...
"Meeting
Werner
was really the irreversible encounter in your life. Your
life was just turned around afterwards. You were a better person and
more effective, and more honest and compassionate person.
Werner
was just wonderful with
people."
Werner
provokes us to look at and to examine
what's so.
Actually it's more than that. It's he provokes us to look at and to
examine what gets in our way of seeing
what's so,
just
what's so,
with nothing added, with nothing taken away, and without looking at it
through filters or interpretations or
opinions.
He creates being provocative along with everything else he creates
himself to be. If he's not being provocative directly ("Tell me how you
walk", "Try this on for size",
"Consider
this", "How's that going for you?" etc) then he's being provocative
simply in how he
be's when he's
around people
in conversation.
Being in any conversation with
Werner
may elicit many "Wow! I never
considered
that before"s or "I never thought of that before"s or "I never looked
at it that way before"s or even "How does he do that?"s or
simply virulent disbelievings. His provocation has purpose. It has
direction. It forwards the action by distinguishing that which colors
what's so.
When he distinguishes that which colors
what's so,
it reveals / lays bare what's hiding / masking transformation.
Werner's
provocations aren't random or frivolous. When he's in conversation with
us, he provokes us to be open to and to
considernew ideas
which are germane to the greater experience of transformation he's
setting up in humankind's collective
listening.
And no, you're not merely
imagining
the similarity to Socrates and the socratic method here, because it
really is similar (the socratic method may not have all
the answers, but it does have great questions).
It's no surprise that
Werner's
idea
of getting
his fingers
out of
the machinery
is provocative. If you've ever closed a door on
your fingers,
you know what he's talking about. To fully appreciate it, you first
have to be clear about his distinction
"the machinery".
Second, if you're going to take on and then
master
getting and keeping
your fingers
out of
the machinery,
you have to be clear about what he's referring to when he speaks about
"getting
his fingers
out of
the machinery".
Why would anyone do that? What does it look like? What does getting
my fingers
caught inthe machinery
look like?
Don't believe
any answers to these questions. Look instead to your
experience of them. As an analogy, "getting
your fingers
out of
the machinery"
works. It really does.
