{"id":4839,"date":"2013-10-09T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T23:20:21","slug":"ex-30-a-subject-object-reversal-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=4839","title":{"rendered":"TSK Ex. 30 A Subject-Object Reversal – David"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Observe the knowing subject and the difference in quality that distinguishes it from the known object.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I chose an object across the room, a jade colored candle. As the knowing subject I observed how I felt about the object. I held affection for it, I recalled my origins and history with it, how I purchased it from Gump’s Department Store in San Francisco on a trip there with my wife decades ago. I associated happy memories with the object, I appreciated its aesthetics too, the pale green color was appealing, the Chinese markings on all four sides of the oblong object reminded me of my Eastern meditative practices, it stood on an attractive carved wooden stand. I never intended to put a flame to its white wick, it was always intended, as I looked outward<\/em>, to sit ‘over there’<\/em>, and be ‘pleasing<\/em>‘ in a room with other pleasing objects. It was an object chosen by the knowing subject, to make ‘me<\/em>‘ feel comfortable.<\/p>\n

Let the object pole \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcover there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 be the knower, knowing you here as the thing known.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At first, I tried to shift my identity and human capacities to the candle, to impute imagined affection and history that the candle might have for me as it sat there observing days turning into night, of a person coming into the room, over there, sitting in a chair, turning on a laptop with his feet up, and tapping fingers on a keyboard. But then I dropped that and just let myself be the inanimate object. What would that be like? I felt or observed nothing.<\/p>\n

But then I dropped imagining the object and realized I was really observing my ‘ideas about’<\/em> the object, I was observing an image of the candle, not outward, but ‘here<\/em>‘. When that happened there was no intervening distance between the object and the subject, they had merged. Then, I felt the object as the subject, if I’m saying that correctly. I became the paraffin, the pigment, there was just exploring the candle from within, the depth of white wick, there seemed to be nothing about the candle that I could not be, there were no boundaries. There was something sitting over there, but everything about it was here, and it was not hard edged or fixed, it was open and spacious, light and airy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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