Spring is a great time to be thinking about gravity. Everything seems to be expanding and loosening up the gravity of the field. Even in thinking, most people are lighter in their patterns. In these terms, the seasons are fields themselves, offering different space experiences and different knowledge openings. Yet, each has its own gravity, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musts, its givens, shaping a different minding and a different physical space experience, in both embodied and objective terms.<\/p>\n
Gravity is present in different fields. Is gravity an element of all space fields? Maybe to varying degrees. Some spaces may approximate Great Space more than others.<\/p>\n
If I look at the space field of the mind, or smaller still, the space field of the self, we see varying degrees of gravity. Does the space field of the mind as focal setting have less or more gravity than the objective environmental space field of our embodiment? (Environmental. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEnviron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 means \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsurrounding\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Surrounding mental, surrounding mental space. Hidden here is our acknowledgment that mind and physical are intimately connected.) Does our body have more gravity than our mind or our self? It seems so. It seems that the field mechanisms of the body are more challenging to open than those of our mind.<\/p>\n
I have long been curious about this gravity, what I often call our \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdefault\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 setting. Expansion is not so hard, but shifting the default setting – well, is it even possible in an embodied way? Or do we learn to hold the default setting more lightly as Rinpoche suggests, but opening \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 focal setting more and more? Again, opening the focal setting is not so hard, but allowing that opening to stabilize is the heart of it. Perhaps playfulness supports this. And allowing the self and body more and more to be a child of space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring is a great time to be thinking about gravity. Everything seems to be expanding and loosening up the gravity of the field. Even in thinking, most people are lighter in their patterns. In these terms, the seasons are fields … Continue reading