{"id":6830,"date":"2015-02-15T10:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2015-02-15T10:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:01:58","slug":"tip-of-the-field-communique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6830","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Field Communique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Since appearance never takes form, each appearance\u00e2\u20ac\u201dinseparable from space\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfills the whole of space<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 DTS 33<\/p>\n<p>Every time I hear that appearance fills the whole of space I think: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand but I guess it has something to do with the idea that space has no extension and that distance is just a projected characteristic that goes along with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153substance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 But saying this never seems to get me any closer to a sense that space is open and spacious.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that I am any closer to contacting this spaciousness, but this morning I had the following notion:<\/p>\n<p>An iceberg is more under the water than above, so that the space occupied by an iceberg is many times bigger than what is seen above the surface.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to this the fact that once an iceberg is floating in the sea it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t long before it melts back into the sea.\u00c2\u00a0 The iceberg is really the vast ocean appearing in a certain way to human eyes, and presently it returns to the ocean field from which it appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Appearance could have this kind of relationship with the field communique.\u00c2\u00a0 We only see what enters the realm in which we live but we are thereby seeing space and knowledge as it communicates with us from a realm beyond what our focal length identifies as significant.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts about the (vast) sea are more bound to the idea of substance and extensiveness than my sense of space (filled completely by appearance).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But the idea that each appearance fills the whole of space comes a little closer when I think of intricate ice sculptures rising up briefly, before they melt back into the sea.\u00c2\u00a0 The appearance of something fashioned of ice, floating on the surface, is never other than the sea and therefore is one with the whole sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since appearance never takes form, each appearance\u00e2\u20ac\u201dinseparable from space\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfills the whole of space.\u00c2\u00a0 DTS 33 Every time I hear that appearance fills the whole of space I think: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand but I guess it has something to do with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,112],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-field-communique","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}