Unit 1 Expanding and Condensing

I have been doing this exercise informally at times. This morning as I was waking I decided to do it. Usually, Expanding seems to start out enlarging some object of experience….but this morning I seemed to Expand beyond that preconception that things had to “get bigger.” It seemed that whatever was arising as some outcome of Expanding was “fed back into Expanding…that is, if I settled on some experience that was “proof” of the expanding, I expanded upon that.  Some mental play came in wondering if the Expanding–Condensing dynamic was cycling of Yin-Yang energy–At first Expanding seemed to be on Yang side, then flipping to Yin during Condensing, but reversed too, where Condensing felt Yang-like, and Expanding felt more Yin. I also played with Expanding the sense of time…in terms of Expanding my sense of situatedness within time.

About ronaldp

I took the TSK 10 month program at the Nyingma Institute in 1982 and been a student of this vision ever since. TSK has definitely been a pivotal force in my life–both on a personal/spiritual level, and in my professional and intellectual endeavors. I am also a “Dharma student,” and see a rich interplay between TSK and Buddhist teachings/practice. I’ve done Kum Nye too. Lately, I have been learning and practicing various forms of Qigong and now Chen style Tai Chi. I am a professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Management/College of Business. I teach MBA students mostly, a course in the Management of Change. I am really not a mainstream business professor. I have contributed chapters to the Dimensions series in TSK, which are edited books by people in various fields that have worked with TSK in different ways. I am excited about this online program and Jack’s new book that accompanies it, “When It Rains Does Space Get Wet?” I look forward to sharing with everyone. Ron Purser
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