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The Information Is In The People, Not In Your Head.

When Western People Train The Mind, The Focus Is Generally On The Left Hemisphere Of The Cortex, Which Is The Portion Of The Brainthat Is Concerned With Words And Numbers. We Enhance The Logical, Bounded, Linear Functions Of The Mind. In The East, Exercises Of This Sort Are For The Purpose Of Getting In Tune With The Unconscious--to Get Rid Of Boundaries, Not To Create Them.

The Essence Of Cross-cultural Communication Has More To Do With Releasing Responses Than With Sending Messages. It Is More Important To Release The Right Response Than To Send The Right Message.

We Live Fragmented, Compartmentalized Lives In Which Contradictions Are Carefully Sealed Off From Each Other. We Have Been Taught To Think Linearly Rather Than Comprehensively, And We Do This Not Through Conscious Design Or Because We Are Not Intelligent Or Capable, But Because Of The Way In Which Deep Cultural Undercurrents Structure Life In Subtle But Highly Consistent Ways That Are Not Consciously Formulated.

Man Is Used To The Fact That There Are Languages Which He Does Not At First Understand And Which Must Be Learned, But Because Art Is Primarily Visual He Expects That He Should Get The Message Immediately And Is Apt To Be Affronted If He Doesn't.