Jack
I am writing this as a post, rather than as a comment to Jack’s clarification to the KTS passage on awareness. I found it to be very cogent. What seems key to me is the notion that Space itself has the capacity for awareness (or in TSK – “knowingness”). This seems remarkable and illogical from a modern Western perspective. How can Space have the capacity to be intelligent? Don’t we need a brain? Here, it seems we embark on the notion of consciousness as well. But let’s put that aside for now. What I found intriguing is that when our conditioned focal setting views space as merely a container, we show up alright as subjects “in” space, but somehow cut-off from this more unusual space-as-awareness. TSK (first book) refers to this as “emergence of higher knowing capacities” or “higher-order” spaces.
Thanks Jack for introducing the correlation to field — as it opens up new dimensions for considering and embodying Space– deepening and getting more attuned to the idea of expansion, inclusion and accomodation, – and ALLOWING — the one adjective that always appeals to me as a cue.
Ron — I see the Categories line to my right, but when I click on it, nothing happens–it seems I cannot choose it.
Since this is specific, I’ll just comment quickly. I was struck by the fact that the Commentary to Ex. 3, as I mentioned in another post, specifically raises this same point: that the exercises lead to contact with a knowing that is somehow inherent in space itself.
There is a kind of beautiful logic to this, at least for me, but only if you don’t push on it.