I explored both of the assigned practices this week.\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoyed both, but I’m not quite sure how they relate to each other.<\/p>\n
With abiding in thought, I found myself, at least initially, approaching it imaginally and “geometrically” — finding a perpendicular abiding orthogonal to the flow of experience, as if each movement of thought or arising image or feeling opened onto a well, or maybe a worm-hole, that ran right through its heart.\u00c2\u00a0 As I pursued this, I found this movement itself became the content on which I was focusing — this imagined opening of an axis, extending and expanding upwards and downwards at once.\u00c2\u00a0 When this became the image, then “perpendicularity” lost its transecting meaning and I retreated to the still “core” of the axis, a stillness at the heart of that upward-downward movement.\u00c2\u00a0 The sense of boundedness or locatedness of this still core dissolved and it became non-local, or maybe omni-local: every movement in every direction was transparent to, and suffused with, this non-local allowing awareness: an allowing which allowed for the opening of containers and envelopes of “space” without itself being a container.<\/p>\n
This sense of “envelopes of space” was what emerged in the intersubjective or interpersonal assignment for this week.\u00c2\u00a0 On an intellectual level, I was stimulated by the exercise because it reminded me of Peter Sloterdijk’s book, Bubbles (Spheres Vol 1), which I’ve been wanting to read for awhile now.\u00c2\u00a0 Experientially, I found that, in the space “between,” I found I was capable of being surprised by what was emerging.\u00c2\u00a0 The realization of the non-ownership of experience came, for me, in this capacity for surprise: I wasn’t “in charge” of this intersubjective space.\u00c2\u00a0 I could influence it, but I also found myself adjusting to, and my embodiment — posture, feeling tone, gestures — being influenced or evoked\/invoked by this emergent space-between.\u00c2\u00a0 Like a horizon calling forth newness.<\/p>\n
Today, on a related note, I was inspired to create a song and video on the theme of space, which I share with you below:<\/p>\n
Always the Sky<\/a><\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I explored both of the assigned practices this week.\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoyed both, but I’m not quite sure how they relate to each other. With abiding in thought, I found myself, at least initially, approaching it imaginally and “geometrically” — finding … Continue reading