{"id":7717,"date":"2016-06-09T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:52:44","slug":"the-center-of-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7717","title":{"rendered":"The Center of the Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: ‘Space Structuring’ by FelixMittermeier – Pixabay
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In class we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been exploring what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at the center of experience…a controlling self? A knowing space presence\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6? It is a fascinating probe, a view into the depths of the pool of perception. It seems that stories give shape, form, and meaning to the space we inhabit, and they structure the whole of our world. I see how often I get stuck in the structure, caught in the undertow and flow of waves of concerns\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6an ever widening billowing sway\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a floating-kelp of debris\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but we are told\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Space and the freedom it offers are available at the center of present experience, just as it is. If we do not discover space in our experience, it is because this space availability has been covered over. To recover space \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpresence\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, we must clarify the operation of the thinking mind, whose active naming and identifying structure a world in which space has disappeared.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nDynamics of Time and Space<\/strong>, Tarthang Tulku, p.51<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It seems we are at the center of experience as either the subject or the object. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I and me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d become reference points for a very narrow view on the world of perceived circumstance. Much attention and focus is placed on what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d think about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is effecting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It seems perception and meaning are intrinsically self-centered and thereby represent a narrow way of knowing.<\/p>\n

The TSK vision takes the self out of the center of knowing. With knowledge as primary, instead of believing that the self is having various experiences, we can begin to consider the possibility that there are various experiences of a self. Experience becomes primary and self (as both subject and object) becomes content. There is nothing to defend, maintain and perpetuate as self becomes content of mind.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hayward M. Fox, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Excerpt from: I Fell Within\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong>
\n\t\tBy Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI fell into fields of stars last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,
\nThis as I sat waiting for a bell to ring,
\nA bell I held in my own two hands\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And above all the silent swirls of stars,
\nPatternings of light, the spray
\nOf a rising wave, it crests above
\nThe cupped and rolling face it is,
\nThe spray lifting apart from the steep crash,
\nThe deep pouring roar of a falling weight
\nThat spills forever, it quakes the continents,
\nIt shakes the moon from its brief hold
\nOn the surface of a small stilled pond,
\nIt is the sad gift of a single tear falling
\nFrom a waking child’s eyes, this as he
\nLeaves a dream of loss to find the sun,
\nAnd later outside, standing alone or with others,
\nAnd the evening fades, and the first stars, then many,
\nRoll into his eyes, the turns of heaven,
\nThe slow spin of our dear earth\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 savors in his own small way vast space
\nAnd the stars that birth within,
\nAnd he waves goodbye to his passing friends,
\nAnd turns at last on his own two feet towards home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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