You strike me as being a 1000-day monk who frequently spends time on 100-day problems as fuel for your 1000-day thoughts.
I got this answer based on looking at your concrete investigations, many of which are literally 100-day projects, but feeling that this was “selling you short” when it came to scope and magnitude and patience.
>who frequently spends time on 100-day problems as fuel for your 1000-day thoughts
Ah yes this is the other question I couldn’t put my finger on until you said this: What about how engaging with lower-level problems is obviously necessary for making efficient progress on higher-level problems? What about how every order 5 monk should also be a monk of orders 4, 3, 2, and 1?
(I’m more sure about the second question than the first. The first was an incorrect guess about why the second thing.)
Perhaps one must pass through each order in order to reach the order above; it’s a small-enough investment of time, after all (only 10% of an ordinary cycle!).
That being said, I don’t buy that it’s necessarily all that important to engage with lower-level problems, or at least not all sorts? One can be a long-term deep math thinker and use lots of lower math but not know much at all of how to sort out the laundry.
I think there is no restriction, aesthetic or social or otherwise, on a higher-Order monk playing around with lower-order concepts as they find useful or intriguing or refreshing or what-have-you.
You strike me as being a 1000-day monk who frequently spends time on 100-day problems as fuel for your 1000-day thoughts.
I got this answer based on looking at your concrete investigations, many of which are literally 100-day projects, but feeling that this was “selling you short” when it came to scope and magnitude and patience.
>who frequently spends time on 100-day problems as fuel for your 1000-day thoughts
Ah yes this is the other question I couldn’t put my finger on until you said this: What about how engaging with lower-level problems is obviously necessary for making efficient progress on higher-level problems? What about how every order 5 monk should also be a monk of orders 4, 3, 2, and 1?
(I’m more sure about the second question than the first. The first was an incorrect guess about why the second thing.)
Perhaps one must pass through each order in order to reach the order above; it’s a small-enough investment of time, after all (only 10% of an ordinary cycle!).
That being said, I don’t buy that it’s necessarily all that important to engage with lower-level problems, or at least not all sorts? One can be a long-term deep math thinker and use lots of lower math but not know much at all of how to sort out the laundry.
I think there is no restriction, aesthetic or social or otherwise, on a higher-Order monk playing around with lower-order concepts as they find useful or intriguing or refreshing or what-have-you.
After 100 days a monk emerges having created the best way to cut pancakes.
The rest of the monastery will miss the constant supply.