As David expresses in his post, I also found myself feeling that the practice for this week (together with attention to Jack’s four non-content layers of experience) allows experience to feel more spacious. When I asked why this might be so, I had the image of tent poles (in this case four of them: embodiment, affective experience, outlook, and background) creating space under the lofted tent canvass of smothering mental obsessions. It’s not so much that mental content expands, but that a broader view of what is going on balances and empowers the experiencing mind to be present. The space that opens up is richer and calmer than the impoverished pursuit of flickering mental events.
Michael
