{"id":724,"date":"2008-06-02T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2008\/06\/02\/darkness-and-light-week-8\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:37:00","slug":"darkness-and-light-week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"darkness and light – week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a few weeks now, we’ve been looking at the theme of light and darkness: light in dark, or not. The short reading for this week suggests that the difference is one of intention or aspiration. You may find that worth exploring. The practice from DTS is very inviting. Please do it very lightly, just seeing what comes.<\/p>\n

Gaynor, this is very upsetting. It’s strange, because just last week I was thinking about the state’s power of eminent domain (that’s what we call it in the U.S., anyway, but it’s what you describe) and how it has the power to uproot people’s lives. I’m glad you’re practicing with it, and that it seems that something is opening. The pain is real, no need to deny that. But what is the relation of that ‘real’ to light. That is the question for you to work with.<\/p>\n

Let me get practical, for a moment.\u00c2\u00a0Governments are not bad or evil, but there is no light in them; they are not alive: they are a tool or mechanism, even if the people who work in them are real people, doing their job. With that in mind, have you considered fighting their plans? At the very least, you need to make sure you are well-compensated; one step up from that is to find a way that they can give you comparable property, or as close to it as possible. I say that not from a TSK perspective, but as a lawyer.<\/p>\n

Peter, I will be leading a workshop for therapists this weekend called “Freedom from the Known.” I wouldn’t dream of trying to introduce the kind of inquiry we are doing now, since these people have no background. Still, my intentions are very similar: to marry the heart and the body with the light of awareness. Our self-centered patterns are themselves an expression of light, and as the reading suggests, the barriers we encounter can themselves become the subject of inquiry.<\/p>\n

Jack<\/p>\n

Gaynor<\/p>\n

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