I’ve enjoyed reading about the ‘field communiqué.’ It’s interesting just how much space opens up with just the ‘practice’ of reading such passages  (dependent on the checking-back with 1st-person experience, as I read, of course.)  I’d like, too, to thank you all for making this possible, and in particular those who join in the phone sessions, which I usually find difficult to attend. It’s lovely.
This morning I was attuning to the existence of the field communiqué and found it interesting in several ways: firstly, I can ‘know of it’ by being its expression, in a mode of presence where ‘being-knowing’ is the way to attune to it; secondly, it has a funny quality, where I participate in it most effectively when I don’t believe it’s specific communications; and thirdly – somewhat like a dream, it is and yet it isn’t. (I’m reminded here of the Buddhist ‘Lanka’: “Things are not as they appear, but neither are they otherwise.â€) Lastly (for now): it’s no wonder that I don’t embrace this every moment of my life, because it opens the very valid question of whether I exist at all, or better… in what way I could be said to exist ‘underneath it all’.
As I attuned to the field communiqué, I touched the territory of being a kind of ‘nothing’. And here I don’ t mean this on the level of communiqué. It’s obvious that my status of existence is the same as everything else’s: made up of everything, I also confer existence on everything by the fact of my very being (as distinct from ‘by my perceptions’ etc, which are also participatory, and creative).
At this next  level…  it seems to me that I might have to make sense of what Rinpoche writes about ‘zero.’ I like the sound of zeroless zero, to describe this … this…  this whatever-it-is. (I have to abandon words like ‘experience’, ‘knowing’ etc.) But I confess that I haven’t studied closely enough to know what Rinpoche means by ‘zeroless zero’, even though I think it fits what I’m ‘seeing’ about where attuning to the actuality of the field communiqué is revealing ‘underneath’ or at the core.
I’m happy not to distract the conversation into other ares, but if you have any comments or correctives, Jack and friends, I’d be delighted to explore them. It’ll be icing on the cake at the moment, because I’m otherwise enjoying the spaciousness. And the non-existence thing is not feeling like a ‘ground dropping out from under me’ kind of thing. It feels more like being a sky-walker, even as I do my morning walk down the post office.
By the way, from one out here in Australia. Thank you, U.S.A, for this week’s giant leap for humankind.
Christopher
