U. G. Krishnamurti , Cormac McCarthy, and true life

U.G. Krishnamuriti describes it like this: “Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, traveling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events. It is only the natural sensations and perceptions that can move with the flow of life. There is no question of capturing or containing that movement.” (Mind is a Myth, p76), And, continuing on with the horse metaphor, a cowboy in Cormac McCarthy’s book, cities of the plain, describes his experience in ‘breaking’ horses: “A good horse will figure things out on his own. You can see what’s in his heart. He won’t do one thing while you’re watchin him and another when you aint. He’s all of a piece. When you’ve got a horse to that place you cant hardly get him to do something he knows is wrong. He’ll fight you over it. And if you mistreat him it just about kills him. A good horse has justice in his heart. I’ve seen it. ….[But] I really don’t have all that much in the way of opinions where horses are concerned. When I was a kid I thought I knew all there was to know about a horse. Where horses are concerned I’ve just got dumber and dumber. …[Mostly] they’re ruined at the first saddle. Before that, even. The best horses are the ones been around kids. Or maybe just a wild horse in off the range that’s never even seen a man. He’s got nothing to unlearn.” (pg. 53-54)

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of

THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas