{"id":8155,"date":"2017-04-17T08:45:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:29:55","slug":"access-to-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8155","title":{"rendered":"Access to Zero\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Space moves within us, and we ourselves move within space. We are always opening to space, and space is always open for us. If we understand this much about space, time manifests differently, with a more allowing rhythm, offering knowledge new points of access. We open to the ratio, to form without edge or character, and discover a rich vitality that is like living forever. We fall in love with space.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tarthang Tulku, p. 63<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This quote by Rinpoche reminds me of an exercise we TSK students often work with. It is one of my favorites for the FEEL and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcin-touchness<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with a Zero-point\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the non-occupancy of space, the formless openness of that foundational feeling\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 TSK Exercise 10, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSpace Arising\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong>, invites us to access space saying:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a richness that is available to be explored: a quality or feeling linked to the quality inherent in being alive, or simply the quality of being. Within the continuum of stillness, cultivate a transparent quality, as though you were preparing the silence to receive light. As you continue with this practice, you will develop the ability to dwell within the silence in a way that allows for a light and clear awareness. It is like activating a silent witness, whose steady presence we might consider \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnowness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n

Eventually this presence can become a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcplace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that you can identify and enter with ease, even though it still has no specific identity or qualities. We might call it the womb of space. Some people may find it fruitful to spend long hours there, familiarizing themselves with the spacious silence it offers, deepening their contact.<\/p>\n

As you come to know this foundational \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcplace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, you can see how ordinary experience arises out of it. A sense of being becomes \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbeing here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122; from this arises \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbeing here in time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Presence becomes presence \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcof\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 something, which is then established and felt to exist. Existence becomes \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which is felt to be identical with the original sense of being.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

….\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDynamics of Time and Space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Tarthang Tulku, p.281<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For me, this cone of knowing, the FEEL of layers of meaning in the process of expanding\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 is what? Is an expanding, widening focal awareness, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcspace awareness<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the movement of knowing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 radiating outward\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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