During the phone call today, we were asked to strip away the sense that experience was “my experience,” if possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps I was more successful at that than I had realized, because when I tried to share my experience, I was spoken over twice and did not “show up” on the call as an acknowledged\u00c2\u00a0voice!\u00c2\u00a0 :-)\u00c2\u00a0 During the exercise, I first just tried to feel into the experience of being the owner of experience, or of experience being “owned.”\u00c2\u00a0 Once I noticed it, suddenly it became what might be described as another object in the field.\u00c2\u00a0 It was “alongside” other objects of awareness and, for that moment at least, did not seem to have any special “position” or right to ownership.\u00c2\u00a0 After a time, though, I found myself, through thought, appropriating that experience, making it mine.\u00c2\u00a0 Ownership seems, on that level, to be an act of appropriation.<\/p>\n
Best wishes,<\/p>\n
Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During the phone call today, we were asked to strip away the sense that experience was “my experience,” if possible.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps I was more successful at that than I had realized, because when I tried to share my experience, I … Continue reading