{"id":1485,"date":"2010-03-09T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2017-09-25T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:41:04","slug":"how-do-we-move-from-point-to-point-in-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"How do we move from point to point in awareness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I used to think X (in the Point of Transition<\/em> exercise) was something like being a passenger in a car or train, looking out the side window as the scenery close-in blurs by.\u00c2\u00a0 To take a fix<\/em>, you focus your eyes, as your head might whip around momentarily to follow a point.\u00c2\u00a0 For that moment you fix a frame<\/em> on the scene, but that moment went by too fast to open to the widest view.\u00c2\u00a0 You passed by in a blur; the narrow moment was gone.\u00c2\u00a0 That moment was ‘A’, and you the traveler, are ‘X’.\u00c2\u00a0 The next fix on the scenery you take up will be ‘A1’.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it seems as if momentum<\/em> causes scenery to blur by so fast before you get the chance to take that next fix – something is definitely being missed. \u00c2\u00a0The traveler remembers where s\/he began the trip, and has projected an arrival, and seems to limit the traveling<\/em> experience by marking off structured moments in-between.\u00c2\u00a0 However, this metaphor would be wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, this would be a better example of how the self usurps<\/em> the witness \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how the self acts as if<\/span><\/em> it were X — taking up the mantle of witness. \u00c2\u00a0So that’s not it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not The Point of Transition<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But then today the temperature was not so frigid, perfect for a walk in the park.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to play with LOK Ex. 22, The point of Transition<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 I watched as I moved from A to A1, thoughts about this and that, as I surveyed the scenery, the open spaces, the blue sky. \u00c2\u00a0As I walked past the occasional snow patch, left from a season high snowfall, measuring 71 inches, the sun was warm and welcoming. \u00c2\u00a0Soon my steps, breath, and balance became automatic, the mind settled down, not focused on anything in particular, I was aware of A and A1 (a linear string of events), but many other things too, all at once.\u00c2\u00a0 I seemed to be near that zero point of awareness that I sometimes experience when waking up in the morning \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not yet focused or intending, just being.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that’s what X is, a very basic open awareness, a presence that is always now<\/em>, a presence I cannot ordinarily see but only be<\/em>. \u00c2\u00a0Within this presence there is a unity of seeing<\/em> and what is seen.<\/em> This open awareness X is available to everything that arises, because everything that arises partakes of it.\u00c2\u00a0 In this knowing space, everything that arises is space, and I am the dynamic aliveness.<\/p>\n

David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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