Alpine Dolphins
Zen Mind,
Beginners Mind
By Kevin Cowan
Staff Reporter
ve been a student for 18 1/2
years; a student, that is, in an
academic sense. I now plan
to remain a student in a less formal
and dogmatic manner, forever.
It’s what I know best.
Two-and-one-half years ago I
knew I wanted to remain a student,
but the fact that I knew things
about different eras, civilizations
and fast-food economies, yet had
seen no coastline of the North
American continent -- save for a
Padre Island sandbar - and much
less the rest of the planet, made me
neurotic, disillusioned and over
stressed. In a near fit of mental
collapse, I left to travel.
Hoboism is a fantastic form of
stress reduction - and not nearly
so guilt-ridden as a few other "isms”
I leave unmentioned. If you feel
guilt and disdain for every human
excretion you ooze, there is a
possibility you are a member of
one of these groups.
If not, you are either psychotic
or well-adjusted. Sometimes it’s hard
to tell the difference. But I’m ram
bling. My point here is this: That I
have spent a vast majority of my life
collecting various odd and eclectic
mental tools from various teachers,
friends, street-corner prophets,
professors, writers, advertisers,
preachers and military-, political
and economic-minded scholars --
they articulate, with any luck, pre
cise definitions of each tool, or
idea, but they never tell me how it
all works together to produce a
creative and critical, though well
functioning, system of thinking.
They never tell me how to use,
together, all the different tools I’ve
been given.
The proper tool is important for
creating quality in art and cogni
tion, yet few people today in our
increasingly simply constructed
complex society, realize that men
tal tools can be used for more than
droll parly talk.
People are taught that you can’t
really build anything with menial
tools, that you need to build physi
cal projections of those tools, but
the truth is this: You can.
Everything around us: Govern
ment, money, religion, language,
music and comedy wasat one point
or several points in the course of
human history made up by a single
individual or a group of humans
working together building tools
from images in their brains via their
opposable thumbs and dexterous
fingers.
In short, we made up everything
around us. Sort of like a game of
pom-pom pullaway.
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