Finding without searching
byMieke Mosmuller
10-12-2014
12 comments
In the Parsival-saga it is the leading character Parsival, who is the personification of the task of modern man. He is a sound person, but his mind is not fully awake, his consciousness is dull, he is not fully aware yet. At first he makes many mistakes because he does not have a clear awareness. The process of awakening is only in the beginning when he enters the castle of the grail. Therefore he follows the events in a kind of dream and remains silent, although he has been chosen to ask...
The sin of not having asked makes him wake up in his mind. He becomes 'mindful', but also starts to doubt everything, even the existence of God. He has to dwell around; he wouldn't be able to find the castle again, now that he has missed his chance. But his capability of doing the right thing on the right moment still stays with him - he conquers everyone that threatens him. There is a wonderful passage in Wolfram von Eschenbachs tale, where it is told how he is looking at white snow with a drop of blood on it. While looking at this, in a kind of spell comes over him, he forgets everything around him and is fully absorbed by his feelings for his beloved one. An enemy comes in his neighborhood, and one would think that he will be killed by him, being absorbed like this. But on the right moment he comes to himself, strikes well-aimed - and sends the conquered enemy to King Arthur's castle...
We can learn a lot from a tale like this. We only have to be able to see the true meaning of it through the imaginations . In Parsival a deep human faculty develops, very slowly and step by step. The mistakes he made by his lack of awareness, and particularly by his ignorance, are transformed into the highest human ability: compassion. This becomes his known force: Compassion.
'Durch Mitleid wissend...' Knowing through compassion. That is a contrast with knowing with the brain, with the mind. With our brains we can know everything without feeling at all, and we will always have doubts about the truth, even about the human faculty of knowing the truth at all.
Compassion is no brain-function. It is a basic constitution of the soul - and it is a wonderful idea that the heart has an ability to know, without having any doubts at all. But it is also clear that this ability is not a natural one, it has to be developed, and the development is not an easy one. It asks for many conquerings over the self.
All this can be experienced by reading the Parsival-saga and trying to read through the images into the true meaning of them. In Parsival we see a kind of renewal of 'spiritual instinct': the instinctive habit of knowing through compassion.
Parzival, painted by Hermann Hendrich
Finding without searching by Mieke Mosmuller
In the quest of Parsival we see the need of finding the path between opposites. Natural for him would have been to ask too many questions. Education has lead him to consider too much - and he misses his task. He does not long for the grail, doesn't know anything about it, doesn't search for the grail-castle. Without searching this castle, he finds it and when he sees the grail, he is astonished , but not enough to ask for its significance.
The sin of not having asked makes him wake up in his mind. He becomes 'mindful', but also starts to doubt everything, even the existence of God. He has to dwell around; he wouldn't be able to find the castle again, now that he has missed his chance. But his capability of doing the right thing on the right moment still stays with him - he conquers everyone that threatens him. There is a wonderful passage in Wolfram von Eschenbachs tale, where it is told how he is looking at white snow with a drop of blood on it. While looking at this, in a kind of spell comes over him, he forgets everything around him and is fully absorbed by his feelings for his beloved one. An enemy comes in his neighborhood, and one would think that he will be killed by him, being absorbed like this. But on the right moment he comes to himself, strikes well-aimed - and sends the conquered enemy to King Arthur's castle...
We can learn a lot from a tale like this. We only have to be able to see the true meaning of it through the imaginations . In Parsival a deep human faculty develops, very slowly and step by step. The mistakes he made by his lack of awareness, and particularly by his ignorance, are transformed into the highest human ability: compassion. This becomes his known force: Compassion.
'Durch Mitleid wissend...' Knowing through compassion. That is a contrast with knowing with the brain, with the mind. With our brains we can know everything without feeling at all, and we will always have doubts about the truth, even about the human faculty of knowing the truth at all.
Compassion is no brain-function. It is a basic constitution of the soul - and it is a wonderful idea that the heart has an ability to know, without having any doubts at all. But it is also clear that this ability is not a natural one, it has to be developed, and the development is not an easy one. It asks for many conquerings over the self.
All this can be experienced by reading the Parsival-saga and trying to read through the images into the true meaning of them. In Parsival we see a kind of renewal of 'spiritual instinct': the instinctive habit of knowing through compassion.
Parzival, painted by Hermann Hendrich
Finding without searching by Mieke Mosmuller
Comments
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From Margareta Bannmann @Ich wünsche mir, dass es bald ein Buch von Dir gibt, liebe Mieke, über Parzival.
Übrigens finde ich das Gemälde wunderschön.
Liebe Grüße! Margareta -
From Mieke Mosmuller @Das ist eine schöne Frage!
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From Michiel Suurmond @Na het antwoord op deze vraag (dank voor zowel vraag als antwoord!), durf ik er een vraag aan toe te voegen. Mocht het boek er komen, zou er dan in kunnen worden aangeduid waarom datgene wat hij is in de komende periode steeds meer en meer noodzakelijk zal worden?
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From Marie Anne Paepe @Misschien heeft dit wel te maken met de noodzaak van het vinden van de weg van het midden tussen de tegenstellingen, zoals Mieke reeds aangaf.
Van Rudolf Steiner leerde ik dat het Ik alleen in het midden - in de juiste maat tussen de polen, in die rust, dus daar waar de beweging nog beide kanten kan opgaan - de juiste verhouding tot de buitenwereld kan tot stand brengen. Maar opdat de polen in de eigen ziel ontwikkelingsfactoren kunnen zijn, is er vooreerst bewustwording van de tegenstellingen in zichzelf vereist.
Wat mij vooral boeit in deze blog en tot mij tot meditatie aanspoorde is het medelijden als kenkracht. Het brengt mij verder.
Dank je wel Mieke ! -
From Machteld Rippen-Veenker @Vieles von Parcival ist schon zu lesen in Mieke ihren Buch 'De wijsheid is een vrouw', leider nur noch im Holländisch..Sehe auch das Commentar im blog 'De burcht van de visserskoning'.
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From Elfi (ich schicke nie meinen ganzen Namen durchs Netz) @Sehr geehrte Frau Mosmuller,
dank eines Flyers hatte ich das Glück, Ihr Nürnberger Seminar zu finden.
Ohne zu suchen; ich wusste ja gar nicht, dass es Sie gibt.
Heute habe ich folgenden Satz von Friederike Mayröcker gefunden:
Ihre Arbeitsweise beschreibt Mayröcker so: „Ich lebe in Bildern. Ich sehe alles in Bildern, meine ganze Vergangenheit, Erinnerungen sind Bilder. Ich mache die Bilder zu Sprache, indem ich ganz hineinsteige in das Bild. Ich steige solange hinein, bis es Sprache wird.“
Das erinnert mich sehr an das, was Sie über den Übergang von Imagination zu Inspiration gesagt haben, denn die Wahrnehmung, dass etwas "Sprache wird" müsste mit der Beobachtung des Denkens identisch sein.
Mich freut es immer, wenn ich etwas in ganz anderen Zusammenhängen wiederfinde.
Herzliche Grüße
Elfi -
From Mieke Mosmuller @Vielen Dank für Ihr Kommentar! Es hat auch mich gefreut, Sie in Nürnberg zu treffen.
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From Luciano Versell @Was meinem Hirn anstösst : wer nicht sucht, kann auch nicht finden. Denn im Suchen selbst keimt und reift das Finden. Suchen und Finden sind mir eine Ganzheit von liebenden Gegensätzen, die auf einander zu gerichtet sind.
Parzival findet nicht - er wird gefunden....
Ich möcht nicht widersprochen haben, eher den Widerspruch in mir verarzten.
Danke für Ihre Anregung !
Luciano
Wann sind Sie wieder in der S chweiz ? -
From Kees Weurman @Picasso hat einmal gesagt: Ich suche nicht, ich finde......
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From Kurt Hofer @Lieber Luciano
Mieke Mosmuller wird am Wochenende vom 27.-29. März 2015 in die Schweiz kommen und in Zürich und Bern Vorträge und Übungen geben. Kennst du die Rundbriefe des Freundeskreises von Mieke Mosmuller? Dort und auf der Website des occident Verlages findet man alle Veranstaltungshinweise und Kontaktdaten :-). Sei freundlich gegrüsst! Kurt -
From Mieke Mosmuller @Ja, im Geistigen ist alles umgekehrt, da liegt das Finden bevor dem Suchen. Das hat das Gehirn nicht gern...
Vielleicht sehen wir uns im März in der Schweiz... -
From Freddy TM Kokke @Kunnen de hersenen zelfstandig dus iets niet graag mogen?
Los van mijn persoon?
Of zijn op dat moment mijn hersenen mij?
Of bedoel je het lichaamsgebonden denken?
Overigens is het beeld in Parsifal niet één druppel bloed maar drie druppels bloed in de witte sneeuw: of is het aantal druppels in het beeld zonder betekenis? Immers: "Wel moeten we leren om door de beelden heen te schouwen naar de werkelijke betekenis." Daar ben ik het hartgrondig mee eens...
Voor wie het interesseert: Leen Mees heeft een prachtige 'exegese' geschreven in het Mededelingenblad van de AViN (in mijn bezit).
Hopelijk wordt ik niet weggezet als intellectueel of detaillist.
Mieke, wellicht binnenkort tot ziens in Zeist