{"id":8137,"date":"2017-04-09T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:28:45","slug":"subject-object-circling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8137","title":{"rendered":"Subject-Object Circling\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes I feel I’m going in circles… the mind has me in a set way of thinking, tracks that lead me into repeating behaviors… habits… familiar ‘mind-sets<\/em>‘ and biases. Problems I address using the same parameters, the same myopic perspective, the same value system that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve presumed as operating in this particular situation, even though it may not… It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to see passed the limits set up by my own way of looking at the problem. Someone said the definition of ‘crazy<\/em>‘ is: “Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Often the way IN to the problem is relaxing the internal tension of it, letting go of its perceived borders, and seeing it as a ‘circle<\/em>‘… held together by the internal tensions of the assumptions and feelings that compose it, and also held unvarying through time by the centrifugal spinning of the attention I give to it through repetition. I love what Rinpoche has to say about \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccircles<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, because it applies to mind-space so sagaciously. Rinpoche says\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

If we focus on the shape of zero, we find a line in the shape of a circle, a curving edge that connects only to itself. Inside the line is space, and outside the line is space: the edge is the edge between space and space, and so it is not an edge at all. This \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcedge that is no edge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is the fitting symbol of space. From that perspective, every line that defines and gives shape is a symbol\u00e2\u20ac\u201dspace within, space without: an edge without substance. Every line, every shape returns to zero as the symbol of space. Every beginning, every ending, even every existent!<\/em>
\n..\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.’Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tarthang Tulku, p. 50<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6suppose that you were able to journey to the edge of the universe and then return back home. As you told the tale of this journey, the question would come, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But what is beyond the edge?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If you answer that you do not know\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat you reached the edge but could not go beyond\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit is natural to ask, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then how do you know it was really the edge?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The best available answer appears to be circular: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know it was the edge because I could go no further.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That is how it is with reality. Beyond what we can measure, there may be axioms or speculations, but there is nothing to be known.<\/p>\n

We could compare the absoluteness of this boundary to the nature of zero. Zero is not just something infinitesimally small; it is nothing at all. It is the unknown, the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcx\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of experience, wholly unrelated to any physical occupancy.<\/p>\n

Yet this way of putting the matter raises a difficult question. Though zero is separate from the physical, it must also somehow share a border with the physical. The whole idea of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdifferent from\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcseparate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 actually presupposes some form of connection. Without such connection, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dczero\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 would simply be meaningless, and in that case \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnot-zero\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 would be meaningless as well.
\nThis same interplay operates in distinguishing matter from space.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dynamics of Time and Space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Tarthang Tulku, p. 268<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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