{"id":581,"date":"2008-02-23T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2008\/02\/23\/week-5-integrating-moments-between-moments-with-point-of-transition\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T13:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:57:29","slug":"week-5-integrating-moments-between-moments-with-point-of-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 &#8211; Integrating Moments Between Moments with Point of Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"96\" alt=\"jelly beans.bmp\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jelly%20beans.bmp\" \/><\/strong><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peter,<\/p>\n<p>I thought that was a terrific and accurate description. I am that too.\u00c2\u00a0<em>Resistance<\/em> is a good word, to me it describes what the <em>consolidating tendency of the self <\/em>is doing while engaged in some of its activities at various levels that are not immediately apparent. It is resisting an open focus by narrowing it. This may sound like a silly example, but my wife gave me gourmet jellybeans for Valentines Day, the kind that have dozens of assorted flavors. So I\u00c2\u00a0noticed chewing one, focusing and identifying the flavor as I turned it over on my tongue enjoying the sweet, specific taste, but before I finished it I caught myself picking up another one to pop into my mouth. I hadn&#8217;t even allowed the fullness of the first jellybean experience to arise and reveal before something in me was ready to discard the experience and take up a new one. The jellybeans of my life, my moments :-0 were being eaten up too fast by a tendency in me to move on.<\/p>\n<p>On LOK pp. 170-1 there are five activities the self engages in as it tends to consolidate experience.\u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s hard to imagine a time in my life when these activities are not going on at some level and they <u>are<\/u> hard to resist, yet there are times when, as Jack said, they can <em>&#8216;hide&#8217;<\/em> and &#8216;<em>there can be different levels of how we become aware of the flow of time&#8217;<\/em>. When I&#8217;m not naming the flavor of the jellybean or comparing to other remembered flavors and judging my favorite, when I&#8217;m not describing the tasting activity to myself, when I am not the one who is the <em>&#8216;owner&#8217;<\/em> of the taste, then what is there?\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes there is a sense of it even though it doesn&#8217;t seem to be an it, a point of transition.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes<\/p>\n<p>David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Peter, I thought that was a terrific and accurate description. I am that too.\u00c2\u00a0Resistance is a good word, to me it describes what the consolidating tendency of the self is doing while engaged in some of its activities at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=581\">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":[1,11,79,77,74,117,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-program","category-arising","category-experience","category-self","category-senses","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}