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Observing the way situations seem to present themselves, I noticed the either\/or<\/em> and this<\/em> or that<\/em> nature of how I assessed what was happening. The polarities seemed to jump out at me; to do something or not, based on judgments of pleasing or not. For instance, to go to the coffee shop to write my practice notes, or do them at home and be distracted by those who would distract. :-)<\/p>\n Seems like a silly example, but my life is made of such choices, this<\/em> or that.<\/em> In the supplemental reading it said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gathering and implementing knowledge could be understood as the fundamental human activity<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d KTS p. 259<\/p>\n The gathering of knowledge<\/em> involves choices between this<\/em> and that<\/em>, and between me<\/em> or it\/you<\/em>, and now<\/em> and then<\/em>. But when I look at my polar example I see the self limiting nature of its own parameters; of course there are other choices that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t consider, or simply ruled out because they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit within my own limited cost\/benefit<\/em> analysis. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting how I did my this<\/em> or that<\/em> judgment projecting out through linear time to an imagined, future cost\/benefit<\/em>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying that planning doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a place in my life, but being aware how I \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself-limit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em> through polarity definitely opens to more possibilities (more open-minded), but also seems to point to openness itself.<\/p>\n This morning as I was waking up there were some moments when I was aware of dream meanings dissolving; not meaning what they meant in the dream and not meaning what they would in a normal awake state. It was as if they could mean anything, even opposites at the same time, where yes and no could mean the same thing at the same time. This preverbal awareness lasted only a few moments before my normal orientation took over. This preverbal awareness may be the deeper sense of no distance TSK Ex. 17 talks about.<\/p>\n Regarding this preverbal awareness, a few paragraphs down from the above quote there was this: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153…from a certain perspective it seems more accurate to say that mind is simply a pattern of recognition and understanding, the product of a specific history and the expression of a particular knowledge.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In light of that twilight zone between the dream state and the waking state, I had a very clear sense of knowingness<\/em> within which patterns arise, a glowing awareness<\/em> if you will. It wasn’t an empty awareness, it was quite full, but it was not confined to the narrow ‘train’<\/em> of meaning it was leaving and the narrow ‘train’<\/em> of meaning it would be getting on. It seemed quite vast (at the very least more allowing).<\/p>\n David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Observing the way situations seem to present themselves, I noticed the either\/or and this or that nature of how I assessed what was happening. The polarities seemed to jump out at me; to do something or not, based on judgments … Continue reading