{"id":7621,"date":"2016-05-05T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2019-01-30T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:06:54","slug":"nothing-beneath-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7621","title":{"rendered":"How do you appreciate space?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PRACTICE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 appreciate space, focus on breath, and breathe in space and breathe out space… Nourishing, healing, calming, breathe in the cosmos, now add everything that occupies space, the entire environment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6all there is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my last posted practice I experienced \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSpace<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as an expansive moment. Space was NOT nothing, it was a nourishing, healing, and calming\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a clearing, expansive, allowing vitality\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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So, we were (practicing) inquiring into space to counter the usual way we engage it, as distance or separation between objects, or as a background for a narrowed focus on objects, and ideas, and stories and emotions about them. We habitually focus on the surface of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthings<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and relate them to other things\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthing<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 oriented perspective, where space as an experience, is largely ignored\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and in doing so we miss an important quality of life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the freedom to be fully present.<\/p>\n

The freedom to be fully present\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6What is THAT experience? For me it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s often seeing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchow<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 things are coming to my attention, not just the reasoning of cause and effect, (this happened because of that), but rather, FEELING the arising of whatever is happening. For instance a string of thoughts arise from somewhere, eventually dissipating and vanishing somewhere\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or when writing this, what to say now is arising from, as Rinpoche says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beneath the surface interactions of entities situated in a presupposed field, prior to the pre-established knowings\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Can you \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeel<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the nothing from which things arise? I can intellectualize and identify that feel as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sense of self, this is what I feel like, my total somesthetic <\/em>sense, or I can feel but NOT identify with it. In that non-identification\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 flavors arise in the feel prior to the pre-established knowings of the tasting space\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 sound arises before naming the musical facets in the felt silence of the listening space\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the visual of windblown emerald and jade colored leaves waving outside my window impacts my heart in the open allowing space of knowing prior to my descriptions of it, in the immediacy of inhabiting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6presence is being the moment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6time, space, and knowing all together\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRACTICE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 appreciate space, focus on breath, and breathe in space and breathe out space… Nourishing, healing, calming, breathe in the cosmos, now add everything that occupies space, the entire environment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6all there is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In my last posted practice I experienced \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSpace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,79,81,43,195,104,70,80],"tags":[43,104,117,70,80],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-arising","category-awareness","category-being","category-intimacy","category-presence","category-space","category-zeroless","tag-being","tag-presence","tag-senses","tag-space","tag-zeroless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}