{"id":7590,"date":"2016-04-22T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2016-04-25T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:35:21","slug":"space-and-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7590","title":{"rendered":"Space and Continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been studying in TSK our common tendency to look at things, leaving space behind the scene. This tendency leads us to experience a solid and confining world.<\/p>\n<p>When I try to look at space (between, outside, around things) and to find new spaces where I found solid things before, a shift in my experience takes place. Inviting these new spaces, a kind of relaxation occurs and I begin to feel more at ease with everything around me.<\/p>\n<p>Within this openness, the senses expand to a more broad experience. It is as if a continuous environment unfolds all around me. The more awareness touches light, sound, scent, flavor, feeling, the more space continues to pervade the experience dissolving any label, any \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthingness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciation arises spontaneously, allowing this continuity, this space without borders. I feel one with space.<\/p>\n<p>I ask permission to transcribe the inspiring verses from Ken McKeon<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more an enveloping<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em> Than a something pointed to,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Is such a dear joy,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> That joy itself goes mute<\/em><br \/>\n<em> <strong>Within the silence<\/strong> of its roaring spring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I am touched by the light<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As it is touched by the sun,<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Brief glows both<\/strong><\/em><em>,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But quite here now<\/em><br \/>\n<em>On this April afternoon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been studying in TSK our common tendency to look at things, leaving space behind the scene. This tendency leads us to experience a solid and confining world. When I try to look at space (between, outside, around things) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[247,117,70],"class_list":["post-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","tag-continuity","tag-senses","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","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\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}