 
Regarding TSK Ex. 34, we were asked: What happens if we focus primarily on the quality of light, the color of light, the feeling of energy flowing, and the knowingness that the light embodies? What about combining some or all of these elements? What is the effect on the feel of the field?
I’ve been using this supplemental exercise since the class began as a meditative ‘warm-up’ and for its centering quality. By working with this exercise my usual ‘visual‘ orientation is reoriented to a ‘feeling’ focus. In doing so it releases a lot of the presupposed, and mostly unnoticed, limits and qualifiers that go with a ‘visual’ orientation. For instance, ‘subject-object‘ dichotomies seem to be less obvious, as does the ‘distance‘ I usually assume in order to distinguish one from the other. The alternative focus on ‘feeling’ is more global and immediate, and less myopically fascinated with specific things and considerations about them, which has a tendency to induce ‘coming out‘.
From a ‘feel of the field‘ perspective, and knowing knowingness as ‘light’, at first I looked to the colors of my internal experience, and saw all colors, even black, which is normally considered the absence of color. Then, I saw that color was a quality I apply to appearance, and I wondered if I could look beyond or through color. If so, then it seemed to follow that if ‘the blank‘ of previous encounters was ‘off‘, then ‘light‘ was the ‘on‘ of knowing awareness. Experientially, the brightest and fullest light was when I was fully present to appearance, and more dim as the narrower my focus became, such as ‘coming out‘ to myopic self pursuits and concerns – my own personal dimmer switch of knowing.
Now, seen in this ‘light‘, maybe ‘color’ could have additional meaning; a palette of sorts consisting of a rainbow of nested fields of sound, smell, taste, touch, sight; all suspended within a translucent canvass of illumined, knowing space. I am free to mix fields, derive blended flavors, and tones, touch with memories, to envision, and to pose. Seen this way, maybe ‘light’ is doing the painting and time is coloring space.
David
