Reading Day 1
TechniqueRW #essay, #waywardness, #unteachable, #embodiment
Technique: ‘A particular way and order of performing actions.’ Most techniques come from extensive trial and error. ‘The master’ who has spent hours thinking or physically practising certain actions, designs a particular way and order of performing actions. Many masters have come up with many techniques. All techniques have a goal, like being able to do a perfect pirouette, or playing a difficult musical piece, or meditating for days in a row, but the result of executing each technique may be different. Let’s take killing an animal as an example. You could kill an animal with a gun, strangle them, drown them, cut their throat, and several other ways. These ways all have a particular way and order of performing actions, so they have a technique. Besides the goal of killing the animal you could have another goal; doing it efficiently, painlessly, according to religious beliefs, collecting all the blood, keeping the fur intact, slowly, dramatically, or to achieve a comedic effect. Whichever technique you choose depends on which goals you want to achieve. To know many techniques is to be able to choose the right actions for the right moment. I wonder if I can make up a technique that I’m not able to perform myself. Something like: writing readable texts in straight lines behind my back with my left hand. I could practise this and maybe at some point I’ll be able to do it, but until then I cannot tell you exactly in which particular way, and in which order you should perform which actions. So I haven’t yet designed a technique. I only have a goal I would like to achieve. Now that I have a goal without a technique, I wonder if there is such a thing as a
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