Yes, in a similar way to saying 'I am a human being' is a description of me. :)
What I mean is that a brief, minimal description can be accurate but missing the joy, wonder and nuanced intimacy that comes from a deeper relationship.
For example, there is a wheel of awareness practice where you develop your ability to 'regulate energy and information flow'. You practice directing your consciousness to different points of awareness, one by one, and linking them together. Awareness of awareness itself is part of this practice too.
An exercise like this is when the definition above can come to life in your personal, subjective experience, and you get to observe how it looks and feels to you. You feel whether these ideas resonate with you, not just from assessing its logic, but from your felt experience. This is the spectacular part for me, the movement from abstract ideas to taking actions in the world that help improve my ability to thrive.
The emergent self-organizing part... think of a flock of birds in the sky and the shape it creates. No-one told the birds to make that specific shape. Likewise, no-one is telling me to speak these exact words to you. They have emerged from a combination of many processes coming together, culminating in an orchestra that somehow is coordinated well enough to let these ideas flow coherently from me to you. I can find this meaningful in many ways, some of them are: a sense of wonder, gratitude, trust, understanding how rigidity and chaos affects the shapes I make, looking at relationships and observing the emerging flow we make together and how it changes over time and what influences us.
This is my current understanding, but I am no expert. I can say that exploring a personal relationship with these ideas, developing my own hypotheses and observations and comparing them, and looking to observe these concepts in the world around me, has been deeply fulfilling.
What I mean is that a brief, minimal description can be accurate but missing the joy, wonder and nuanced intimacy that comes from a deeper relationship.
For example, there is a wheel of awareness practice where you develop your ability to 'regulate energy and information flow'. You practice directing your consciousness to different points of awareness, one by one, and linking them together. Awareness of awareness itself is part of this practice too.
An exercise like this is when the definition above can come to life in your personal, subjective experience, and you get to observe how it looks and feels to you. You feel whether these ideas resonate with you, not just from assessing its logic, but from your felt experience. This is the spectacular part for me, the movement from abstract ideas to taking actions in the world that help improve my ability to thrive.
The emergent self-organizing part... think of a flock of birds in the sky and the shape it creates. No-one told the birds to make that specific shape. Likewise, no-one is telling me to speak these exact words to you. They have emerged from a combination of many processes coming together, culminating in an orchestra that somehow is coordinated well enough to let these ideas flow coherently from me to you. I can find this meaningful in many ways, some of them are: a sense of wonder, gratitude, trust, understanding how rigidity and chaos affects the shapes I make, looking at relationships and observing the emerging flow we make together and how it changes over time and what influences us.
This is my current understanding, but I am no expert. I can say that exploring a personal relationship with these ideas, developing my own hypotheses and observations and comparing them, and looking to observe these concepts in the world around me, has been deeply fulfilling.