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concept:egolessness-in-makingEgolessness in Making
The state of mind required to produce genuine roughness and life; the product of no will, where the maker is deeply relaxed and free, doing only what is essential without contrived desire to be interesting
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- Christopher Alexanderintroduces
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- Claim that genuine roughness comes from abandon and freedom, not from contrived effort to appear interesting; artificial roughness is merely contrived
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- Roughnessassociated_withThe property that living things have a certain ease and morphological roughness which is an essential structural feature, not an accident; the seemingly rough arrangement is more precise because it comes from careful guarding of essential centers, requiring egolessness and abandon
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- The mode of making in which personal search for the true self and objective construction of living structure coincide.
- The apparent paradox: the 'it' can only be found by being egoless, yet the prescription is to please yourself.
- The state in which one sees the structure perfectly and makes the perfect structure-preserving response; paradoxically reached through the deeply personal act of pleasing oneself.
- Creation without imposing personal concepts or ego, allowing the wholeness to guide unfolding.
- A common essential in mystical teachings: the need to lose concern with one's own ego to reach the ground and see wholeness.
- A core directive from Book 4, p. 95, quoted to define the essence of living process in large buildings.
- The maker's impulse to draw attention to self, which blocks the creation of not-separateness and living structure.
- The maker's self-transformation as a prerequisite for creating unity.