{"id":10013,"date":"2021-06-11T12:27:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2021-06-11T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:27:27","slug":"natural-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=10013","title":{"rendered":"NATURAL AWARENESS\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NATURAL AWARENESS\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem and the quote by Rinpoche evoke in me that almost granular feel at the edge of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 at the beginning of perception\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Awareness generally means to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aware of some thing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to look at objects, to recognize, identify, and try to understand them. This is commonsense awareness. But as a living experience, natural awareness is simple and direct, open and responsive, without concepts, words, images and interpretations. Awareness takes place within the first moment, not before, and not after. It is immediate, spontaneous. There is no other \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to obscure the moment\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere is no subject or object, no time or space. All that remains is within this openness, which neither words nor concept can describe.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is complete freedom from our restless attempts to hold on to something, to be secure in some distraction or some trance-like fixation. There is no fear and no guilt\u00e2\u20ac\u201dno desire to escape or be any other way. There becomes complete self-acceptance and generates a fresh new outlook all its own.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n…..’Tibetan Meditation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em> by Tarthang Tulku<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

O ALICE
\n by Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

I am becoming
\n As pale
\n As a fading memory,
\n My thoughts are moth like,
\n Softy winged,
\n Gliding things,
\n Dusk grey,
\nWonderfully out of touch with daylight life,<\/p>\n

At times my sense is
\n I myself am such a form,
\nHow was I conceived, and why?
\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to know,
\n I gave into
\n Paying close attention years ago,
\nThoughts arise, they fall away,
\n So do we all,
\n Mystery presides,<\/p>\n

Easing down into granularity
\n Seems to be the right thing to do,
\nEvery outer surface that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever known
\n Falls away into the spinning tunes
\n Of inward time,
\nThe opening fields are alive with light,
\n Cellular whispering
\n Communicates a whole,
\nA knowing spaciousness presides,
\n Well, do drop in,
\n You might have the key,
\n Turn it on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NATURAL AWARENESS\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem and the quote by Rinpoche evoke in me that almost granular feel at the edge of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 at the beginning of perception\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Awareness generally means to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aware of some thing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to look at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,81,76,115,40,104,80],"tags":[81,43,169,159,40,205],"class_list":["post-10013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-awareness","category-light","category-opening","category-poetry","category-presence","category-zeroless","tag-awareness","tag-being","tag-higher-knowing","tag-light-2","tag-poetry","tag-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10015,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions\/10015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}