Investigation

[JonnyPitt]

@henryyyyyyyyyy

By the way, what she’s describing here is investigation… back & forth between experiencing the emotion, noticing things, getting clear, thinking about what’s sensible… investigation works!

Only because of this…

@carpe_vitae

I first had glimpses and then increasingly longer periods where neither tender nor savage emotions would interfere in the delightful magic of a direct unimpeded peaceful interaction

Investigation without prolonged periods of happy and harmlessness is just an intellectual exercise. The happy and harmlessness is essential. Happy and harmlessness is the more important skill.

Now, re-reading it I see she said:

As I successively became aware of and understood one feeling after the other, I first…

I guess there she is indicating that investigation leads to happy and harmlessness. My guess she is misstating this or not emphasizing the choice to be h & h. But she wrote what she wrote. So my point has been defeated by the actual text. Oh well. I lose. I just want people to allow the discoveries to come to them while in a state of happy and harmlessness.