Hi All
This morning was a movement into Exercise 34 — Emobodiment of Knowledge. But what was interesting is that certain fragments of the online comments from various people seemed to emerge into my practice session. One new feeling for me today doing this exercise was a global sense of appreciation for the vastness of knowledge–and what I mean by that is knowledge that organizes the complexity of my body without my conscious knowledge, and the vast knowledge that seems to be part of the order, patterns and complexity of the universe itself–from the complex evolution of species, to weather patterns, to the right conditions for life to emerge on Earth, to the order of the planets around the Sun, to the spinning and spiraling of galaxies–all this happening–seems to be infinite acts of intelligence (Not, creative design, mind you)…but this sense that I did not “think” my way into existence, into being incarnated in this complex physical and psychological body/mind—yet, here I am.
That sort of “taking in” of knowledge was like pouring into the circulation quality — or circulating movement in an elliptical like fashion–I then popped my head and thought of the comment that I think Bruce made about imagining his head as the sky–and then I flashed on Leslie’s question about “day-to-day” realities, dealing with conventional knowledge—a stream of insights seemed to come–and I don’t know whether I captured them well…but the main insight was a metaphorical instruction — in terms of how one might be able to take TSK into the everyday world in a simple way — and it went something like this: Don’t look directly at conventional knowledge as conventional knowledge. Try looking at it from a “side-ways” perspective, or at “right-angles” to the objects–or try to maintain your “peripheral vision” while looking at obejcts of conventional knowledge–the point seemed to be related to a phrase that I recalled about “not bottoming out” on the surface of objects–that is, not to let your perception to be totally absorbed in the “form” aspect of the objects one is looking at….another variant insight emerged was that because even conventional knowledge is always changing–what once seemed so heavy, important, true, fixed, serious–now is gone, has changed—keeping this sense even in the midst of ordinary affairs then seems to provide a sense of lightness–and also that “things” happening or more workable, pliable, and not so fixed.
Anyway, the other quality of the experience was “not reaching” — “not extending” — “not trying” — subtle sorts of cues — but there seemed to be less of the need to try to reach for a certain experience, or to prolong an experience, and just dropping any sort of preconceived expectation….
Ron
