{"id":8159,"date":"2017-04-18T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2017-04-19T10:54:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:54:24","slug":"8159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8159","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Ease…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rinpoche reveals something important about the ‘ease<\/em>‘ that lets \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknowing expand beyond its perimeters<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKeys of Knowledge<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

“Perfect ease<\/strong> is not an ordinary part of our mindset; it may take some practice. Until we fully understand ourselves. We may have a feeling we are not enough\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot strong enough, not good enough, not whole within ourselves. This can lead us to turn outside ourselves for ways to manage this feeling of being inadequate or incomplete. We may look for leisure time, companionship, possessions or accomplishments in order to support ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n

As long as we sense a lack, we will need to respond to this need within ourselves with kindness, and deliberately cultivate our confidence and self-esteem. This is work we can do right now, without needing to wait for deep insight into ourselves: all it requires is a shift in emphasis from getting things<\/strong> to cultivating the beauty of our juncture, our unique moment in time.<\/em><\/p>\n

If we know how to take care of ourselves, then there is a chance we can open to others. Then caring could carry on, spread widely into the world, so that others, too, could make themselves at ease.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d p.142-3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In cultivating our unique moment in time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible for the clarity of morning light to hit like a thunderbolt… color and form striking the heart sudden and direct. What was a narrow focus on experience instantaneously opens to the bursting, brimming, suffused, expanse… the heart of time and space… fully known…<\/p>\n

MAPLE<\/strong>
\n By Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

The maple we call Birthday,
\nLight and dripping,
\nSlivered with raindrops,
\nLater morning mist sheathed,
\nIts burgundy, the felt<\/p>\n

Coloring we know,
\nThe many stranded leaf play,
\nThe parted fingerings,
\nWhy they’re branch bound somewhere,<\/p>\n

It’s quite hard to see exactly,
\nOne would have to ease<\/strong>, to fall
\nInto the leaf walled,
\nThe air born,
\nSpacious caverned
\n Shadowed open blooms
\n Of open morning light itself,<\/p>\n

Why there in the clear moist particles,
\nThe stilled brush of living light bequeaths
\nEase <\/strong>to the eye, the heart,
\nAnd one knows
\n The sky’s loom,
\n The breath and being held here,
\n Roofed, ceilinged, cupped within<\/p>\n

A halved wooden cask,
\n This deeply lilting tree,
\n The cello played as silence,<\/p>\n

Now heard on the deck,
\nLate morning, mid April,
\nThe stately gifting presence
\n Of this Springtime day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rinpoche reveals something important about the ‘ease‘ that lets \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknowing expand beyond its perimeters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKeys of Knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 “Perfect ease is not an ordinary part of our mindset; it may take some practice. Until we fully understand ourselves. We may … 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":[136,43,113,115,40,104],"tags":[43,113,115,40,104],"class_list":["post-8159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-being","category-expanding","category-opening","category-poetry","category-presence","tag-being","tag-expanding","tag-opening","tag-poetry","tag-presence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159","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=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}