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It seems fair to say that this program aims in part at allowing space to reappear as a focus for concern. Has it had that effect for you? How do you know? What evidence can you offer? Can you identify specific differences in your actions? In your outlook or perceptions?<\/em><\/p>\n

Could we experience space directly? It might be helpful to approach this question through comparing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcspace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and awareness. … Like space, awareness is somehow \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcendowed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with the capacity to accommodate. KTS 144<\/p>\n

What is the relationship between awareness and space? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Awareness \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcexperiences\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 what happens in space, and experience takes shape through an interaction between awareness and its \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcobjects\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that space somehow accommodates. KTS 145<\/p>\n

Awareness is variable. It can be owned by a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153self\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but it can also open, relax, appreciate and allow. In that case, it counters the usual \u00e2\u20ac\u0153control and improvement orientation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d eases the transition to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and deepens towards \u00e2\u20ac\u2122knowingness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. WIR 207<\/p>\n

What I have learned through studying and practicing is that the experience of space in new ways is a key issue in activating a new kind of knowledge that can touch our hearts and affect our conduct. Space is like the sky; it is open and it is already there. Touching the space with awareness it is possible to experience a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153feel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the space, to experience its quality. Therefore, awareness can be considered a bridge that connects us to space.<\/p>\n

The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclower spaces\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 we occupy have caused all kinds of crowding, confusion, weariness, and failures to communicate well. In order to create a sense of harmony and satisfaction both within ourselves and in our relationships with others, it is essential that we develop an awareness of the limitations, which we have been passively accepting due to our restricted perspectives and presuppositions<\/span>. Once this awareness is keenly felt, an ability to open to new dimensions (which will stimulate integration and creativity), will naturally follow. TSK 17<\/p>\n

In my experience, I realize that when the self owns the awareness; when I am right, when want or don\u00c2\u00b4t want do anything, when I judge what is right or not, when emotionality permeates the experience, the frame of mind is full of resistance and I feel the space around me closed and claustrophobic.<\/p>\n

Being aware of the quality my mind, I am able to see the limitations and restrictions and to tune into the allowing quality of the space, that is already there. Once the spacious quality is touched, it can be recalled latter, again and again.<\/p>\n

If we cultivate a clear awareness (receptive, not owned by a self),<\/em> this outward projection of knowledge can remain available \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinwardly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Let us call this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinward outward-knowing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It allow us to know with a knowledge that is not ours. DTS 39 and 41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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