{"id":6102,"date":"2014-08-21T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:13:05","slug":"tsk-ex-29-awareness-as-a-reflective-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6102","title":{"rendered":"Awareness as a Reflective Surface – TSK Ex 29"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To some friends, I described a night out and showed some pictures of us enjoying wine and cigars. A seemingly harmless, night out, some fun, etc.<\/p>\n

So later, I was looking back on this evening, a little like savoring certain lingering tastes after a good and satisfying meal. I was drawn again to the cigar-bar remembering some of my thoughts and observations as I savored the cigar — between the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreflective surface<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the smiles and laughter. I do not smoke anymore, occasionally a cigar, as a pleasant, pondering activity. I remember thinking, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the type of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknowing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 we employ determines the quality of what we know and live with<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a TSK quote which warns of seemingly harmless distractions. Distractions from what? From being aware of Space and Time, distractions that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153keep us \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctuned in\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a constant and limiting way<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, that keep us from a more fundamental vitality that is inherent in the awareness of a more open perspective. On page 244 of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Time, Space, Knowledge<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Rinpoche says:<\/p>\n

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No fixed limits on either enjoyment or suffering exist; none are enforced by any inherent limits of the world as a whole or of our being in the world.<\/p>\n

Space and Time will support an infinity of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcplaying\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in either direction. So they must be related to properly and consciously if their infinite accommodation is not to prove disastrous to us. For if the positive and joyous possibilities implied by the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcplay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of Space and Time are ignored, it then may indeed take on an ominous significance for the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It may sound as if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m being hard on myself for having a good time, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that is really the case. It was just an attempt to open a myopic activity to a greater understanding, to widen the mental space in which the experience arose, to expand the aperture on merely a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgood time<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgreater time<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, to touch and appreciate that fundamental vitality of being alive in space and time — Now<\/em>. And to open the narrow fiction of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI was just having a good time<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, when that was really just a surface reflection<\/em>. Clearly, there was more depth to the experience than originally narrated to my self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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