{"id":421,"date":"2007-06-18T00:41:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T07:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2007\/06\/18\/unit-17-pointings-and-confusions\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:37:14","slug":"unit-17-pointings-and-confusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Unit 17 Pointings and confusions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had difficulty understanding what is going on in TSK 26 – Transcendence of Pointings<\/strong>. All I could derive is that it is suggesting that all matter, including our concepts of mind and body, are actually uncertain\/subjective. I can go along with that, but then I guess I would ask what makes us believe that time and space are any different from this. Maybe they are just as subjective – I don’t know. Accepting the ‘non-substantiality’ of body and mind probably leaves us more open to all possibilities and that, I agree, is valuable. I spent a lot of time in this practice feeling confused and cross – maybe this is a sign that I am too tied to certainty and the lower self. I can accept that the mind and body are eventually insubstantial – they both flux and pass away, and at\u00c2\u00a0 higher levels may cease to exist – but I’m not sure that this tells me much more about ‘pointings’. “Saying nothing’ is , however, certainly very opening, very liberating, so I decided in practising just to stay with that.<\/p>\n

Taking this approach into the next\u00c2\u00a0exercise – LOK 48: Exploring Space, Time and Knowledge<\/strong> – was good. Placing space and time at the centre of experience is something that I find a relaxing phenomenon, opening up objects, experiences and thoughts. Playing with this would certainly provide a very different perspective on everyday life – a bit of magical fascination, rather like travelling in a foreign country where every experience seems new, intrinsically interesting and unique. Wonderful things can be experienced when I lose my ‘self-concern’. I really enjoyed this exercise.<\/p>\n

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

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