As David expresses in his post, I also found myself feeling that the practice for this week (together with attention to Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four non-content layers of experience) allows experience to feel more spacious.\u00c2\u00a0 When I asked why this might be so, I had the image of tent poles (in this case four of them: embodiment, affective experience, outlook, and background) creating\u00c2\u00a0space under the lofted tent canvass of smothering mental obsessions.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not so much that mental content expands, but that a broader view of what is going on balances and empowers the experiencing mind to be present.\u00c2\u00a0 The space that opens up is richer and calmer than\u00c2\u00a0the impoverished pursuit of flickering mental events.<\/p>\n
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As David expresses in his post, I also found myself feeling that the practice for this week (together with attention to Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four non-content layers of experience) allows experience to feel more spacious.\u00c2\u00a0 When I asked why this might be … Continue reading