Raising Buddha

So i watched the DaVinci Code last night and there’s a scene when Ian McKellan is questioning Audrey Tautou about how she was given puzzles as gifts when she was a small child. He ventures that puzzles must just lay down for her now, and as he’s saying all this she has a flashback to when she was maybe 4 years old – playing with a three dimensional puzzle.

And my passion hit me again. She was being raised by a man who wanted her to have skill in puzzling things out – so he immersed her in that from the time she was very young. This is the best way to build deep, somatic, long-term competence in a person. Start when they are young. Surround them with those things that are the mundane and necessary foundations for those skills you want them to develop.

Which renewed this question for myself: What are the ways that, long term, i want Miles to be competent? And, based on that, what are the most sensible activities i can immerse him in now to support that kind of development?

Of course the question of long term competence is one that will be refined and developed endlessly but it’s useful to begin tracking it.

I know that i want to help him develop as close to a photographic memory as possible.

I also want him to have:

• Intimate knowledge of his body. i.e. physiology, anatomy, somatics (deep somatic awareness)
• The ability to modulate and organize the way he uses his rep systems
• Deep awareness of his default “at best” state
• A powerful connection with the world in which he is immersed (The GTS/God/Universe)
• Exquisite Balance
• Powerful decision making
• The ability to Lucid Dream
• To speak many languages fluently
• Honor, Integrity
• A well-defined sense of responsibility
• To understand Ecology and Systems thinking at a very deep level
• For him to live a life filled with purpose and Love
• For him to Be Perfectly Himself – and to know it.

There is much more to this post but it’s late and time now for me to sleeep…