{"id":7398,"date":"2015-11-08T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2015-12-05T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T20:52:11","slug":"awareness-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7398","title":{"rendered":"Awareness of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve continued working with some of the practices in the book, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>Shift Into Freedom<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Loch Kelly, a gifted teacher and author, in which he explains his \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>Open-Hearted Awareness Approach<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to Being.  This practice reminds me of some of the TSK Space exercises, for instance the <em>Mountain Retreat practice<\/em>, which introduces us to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6our inner being to some of the infinite energy that is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Such energy is real, palpable, and usable. Ordinarily, we seek energy and nourishment in a goal-directed, attainment-oriented manner. We grasp at what is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a fashion that reduces it to the status of a point, a locus to be stripped bare before proceeding to the next point in an endless quest for fulfillment. This is an impoverishing approach.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  TSK p.95<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-7-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-7-2015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Porch 11-7-2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-7-2015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porch-11-7-2015.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Notes: GLIMPSE 4 &#8211; Awareness of Space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again sitting on the porch listening to music\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n<p>(To hear what I heard)   https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DpLZ5kJS5SI<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eva Cassidy - Autumn Leaves\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DpLZ5kJS5SI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and seeing the leaves outside turning gold, to orange, and fuchsia against a brownish field and cloudy-blue sky.  I \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>unhook<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 local awareness from the flow of thoughts about what I am seeing.  Focus shifts from narrating mind to the left ear, as sound amplifies to wide-angle hearing, while visual attentiveness seems to recede.  Left side listening opens up like a bubble being blown up and out, continuing to expand as mind space merges with sound space\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6arising rhythms and beats, notes and space, and a parallel ringing in the ear that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always there, often hardly noticed.  There is a fullness to the space of listening while NOT narrowing to identify arising objects\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n<p>Now, I unhook local awareness from hearing, and open to the surrounding space in which all appearances present, which has the feel of a feast spread before me.  Now there is a vibrant fullness to everything, all senses alive, all feeling present, a boundless and open, non-specific awareness seems abundant\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>With this openness I consider this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>space awareness<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as if taking stock of who is here now.  And I notice it is not the one who started this practice, in the sense that the one who began was looking and feeling through a narrow or near-sighted perspective, and the person who is aware in this moment sees and feels with a much wider angle, absent the constant thinking that clings to objects, opinions, and feelings of discomfort.  And in this &#8216;<em>space<\/em>&#8216; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reminded of the question Lock Kelly asks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it like with nothing to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<\/em><em>chew<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  And the answer, <em>open awareness of being aware<\/em>, is now available to welcome the arising moment at the edge of the future, from a more fundamental and authentic level.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve continued working with some of the practices in the book, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShift Into Freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Loch Kelly, a gifted teacher and author, in which he explains his \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOpen-Hearted Awareness Approach\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to Being. 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