{"id":4387,"date":"2013-05-15T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:09:05","slug":"using-time-to-open-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4387","title":{"rendered":"Using Time to Open Knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-shimmering1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-shimmering1-300x241.png\" alt=\"Porch shimmering\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-shimmering1-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-shimmering1.png 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wind was waving the leaves and patches of bright sky speckled through. I breathed deeply and with the exhale released what I was holding, and unfocused my eyes.  In that un-focusing shades of green and bright sky became diffused, the breeze stimulated shimmering light and color. Exhale again, and sensations of sound and feeling expanded inward awareness.  Thought-strings about what I was doing, and also feeling the widening <em>spatial <\/em>realization, allowed the thoughts to pass like strings of fireflies, and after the strings passed&#8230;more available space, the feeling of well-being suffused awareness, then airy thoughts about recognizing the feeling arose and passed un-grasped.  The shimmering green and flickering sky seemed almost like a dream as it continuously shifted, as background sounds, and body-feeling filled the expansion of my beyond-body awareness.  <\/p>\n<p>Moments later, as I narrowed my focus a little, the objective leaves became more defined, borders were more distinguishable, &#8216;<em>things<\/em>&#8216; in my mind continued to arise, but they were accompanied by a vision of having just come from a more open and deeper perspective, and a more complete feeling of well-being\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6than I was aware of before I began this exercise.  On this side of that deeper experience I saw my own depth being more open than my normal gathering tendency to continuously fix to a specific point in time.  That &#8216;<em>seeing<\/em>&#8216; showed a different kind of knowing than I am normally accustomed.<br \/>\nDavid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind was waving the leaves and patches of bright sky speckled through. I breathed deeply and with the exhale released what I was holding, and unfocused my eyes. In that un-focusing shades of green and bright sky became diffused, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","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=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}