The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) —
As each memory ‘appears’, let it expand in intensity or energy, or in the quality of light it bears. ‘Assign’ this glowing energy a positive feeling, even if the feeling tone of the ‘original’ experience was not positive. Let each memory add to the glow, until a deep radiance suffuses your awareness. If you wish, you can continue this journey forward in time past the point at which you began the earlier ‘backward’ progression.
Through most of Session 8 I’ve been working with memories and I’ve posted practice notes a couple of times at the links below. For me, these have been profound experiences. It has been said about human nature that the most personal is in some sense the most universal. In reading these descriptions what do you think, do they resonate with your experience?
https://cciforum.dreamhosters.com/?p=6281
https://cciforum.dreamhosters.com/?p=6188
https://cciforum.dreamhosters.com/?p=6102
A quick summary… Working with memories, I was particularly struck that at some point I became intimate with the dynamic structuring process of memory creation, from a more fundamental point as I recalled how the remembering process expanded outward. By looking back on memories I began to see assumptions I had made, selective parts to include while excluding others, unconscious choices to value some parts while devaluing others. It dawned on me why I valued some parts more than others. The original structuring happened so fast I didn’t notice, but tracking back things opened up, boundaries became apparent and became more transparent [Seen through, but also understood like a dawning], the tree of relationship of parts to parts became translucent, the spinning referrals seemed to loosen and unravel. As this intimacy of ‘inhabiting’ the remembrance unfolded, there was a welling-up of well-being. I felt vital, full, there was buoyancy with the dawned realization that awareness had expanded, it encompassed so much more than my little summary of what I had previously assumed was a fixed memory.
We talked in class about the zero-point, and the echo of zero. At the end of my remembering, or while ‘inhabiting’ the remembrance process I realized I was not ‘in’ the past in the linear sense, but that present and past were joined in the sense of Being. And here, so to speak, at the edge of arising, is where the echo of zero begins. As Rinpoche says:
Before the rational and the logical, prior to sorting and collecting and the conviction that what we assemble is what is so, a kind of innocence is available. Born in freedom and honesty, it conducts joy and love. DTS 334
We might CONSIDER THE TIME ‘WITHIN’ WHICH EVENTS OCCUR as the echo of ‘zero’. No first-level ‘zero’ could have an echo, but at a higher level the relation between substance and emptiness is more fluid. KTS 90 The dynamic of time communicates presence and experience without giving solidity to what is presented. Acting as the ‘agent’ of ‘zero’, time on the second level takes responsibility for presenting the present as the echo of the activity of communicating.
