{"id":7916,"date":"2016-10-23T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2019-06-28T06:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:59:26","slug":"rest-in-the-ripple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7916","title":{"rendered":"Rest in the Ripple…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: ‘Middle of the Ripples’ by cocoparisienne \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Pixabay
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Rest in the Ripple\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong><\/p>\n

In \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDimensions of Mind<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, p.212, there is a pointing out instruction how to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153focus each ripple, each point, back toward its own transitions\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the more you penetrate the ripples\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the more you can stay there.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rinpoche refines, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a surfer riding a wave. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfrom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and no \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto\u00e2\u20ac\u2122…Imagine that you are holding on to a stick. You start out by trying to focus on one particular place on the stick, the place you are holding\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Gradually you begin to realize that there is no one place on the stick, that every part of the stick is connected to every other part.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The Ripple…<\/strong>
\nSo, I breathed in and looked up to the trees,
\nas sun and breeze played the leaves… <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was calm to begin with and just enjoyed the motion overhead. There was no impulse to name or describe the situation to myself, though I was aware of my subjective appreciation of the visual perception. As I breathed in and out, perception also included the scent of fall air, a hint of musky leaves and earth. I noticed the movement in the ripple that involved the chill in the air\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 There was slow jazz coming from a speaker nearby, rhythmic and full sounding. It seemed my senses widened in the ripple, or perhaps the ripple widened to include my embodiment of the availability of a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhole<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of perception. While I noticed these distinctions of sensual input, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t follow any particular one in any directed way. And since there was no pre-determined direction to the experience, no pre-intended goal, it simply unfolded. There was no telling, no declaring of meaning, no urge to direct the movement, even though the ripple continued to unfold\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6sun still dappled wind-blown leaves, sky covered browning fields\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6music carried a mellow mood of enjoyment. Rinpoche points to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a kind of stillness in the midst of movement<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 staying in the ripple.<\/p>\n

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When you stay in the center, ripples open and release in very valuable ways. The nature of the field is not what matters: it might be shaped by dimensions of thought or dimensions of mind; it might be the field of sensory awareness or embodiment, or it might be a field of subtle impressions that cannot be put into words. In each and every case, we can open the field. Starting from the center, you can let the ripples expand. As they do, the frozen structures put in place by language and concepts melt away…You enter a spacious, open environment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 p.188<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rest in the Ripple\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDimensions of Mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, p.212, there is a pointing out instruction how to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153focus each ripple, each point, back toward its own transitions\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the more you penetrate the ripples\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the more you can stay there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rinpoche refines, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s … 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":[136,43,195,117],"tags":[43,71,195,115,104,253],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-being","category-intimacy","category-senses","tag-being","tag-embodiment","tag-intimacy","tag-opening","tag-presence","tag-ripples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","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=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}