Interesting question - that of whether blogging and putting your thoughts out there actually changes what you are trying to say?? Getting feedback from someone on what you've written is phenomenal but scary at the same time. Got to learn to manage it somehow 'cos it's nothing like Facebook!
Pirsing in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance says that "When analytic thought, the knife is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts. Mark Twain's experience comes to mind, in which, he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, the discovered the river had lost its beauty. Something is always killed. But what is less noticed in the arts - something is always created too. An instead of just dwelling on what is killed it's important also to see what's created and to see what is process as a kind of death-birth continuity and is neither good nor bad, but just is."
I don't think it matters whether people are looking in or not... writing it down will cause you apply the knife in some way. Otherwise, why are you doing it?
Interesting idea: applying the knife. I wonder how this post and the previous one are connected..
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