{"id":8648,"date":"2018-02-19T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2018-05-05T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T18:12:15","slug":"in-the-time-of-thinking-what-does-that-phrase-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8648","title":{"rendered":"IN THE TIME OF THINKING – What does that phrase mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IN THE TIME OF THINKING – What does that phrase mean to you? Do you discover it in your experience of the exercises we have been working with?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The word \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcintimacy<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 relates to deep within, the essential nature; intrinsic\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to the inmost depths of the mind. Most have experienced physical intimacy with another person, and also intimacy with places, and things. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when the usual running narrative in the head diminishes to the point when unity between two \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthings<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 happens, free of head-stories, and the structuring activities with which mind engages. And at least for that moment, myopic self-absorption surrenders\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we let go. While each moment can be seen in sequence, like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbeads on a necklace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, each bead can be opened to reveal\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

In that instant a different way of knowing is available, one that does not require conceptual constructing of what we know. That freedom allows for a no-distance contact between a subject relating to an object. This intimacy can also happen with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthinking\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. And I believe that is what Rinpoche means by the phrase\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 IN THE TIME OF THINKING. When we think of thoughts as mind-things, observable objects, we create the distance between the observer and the thought. But IN THE TIME OF THINKING we drop the distance, and unite with the thinking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 no longer separated by the distance between subject and object. We are no longer observing the thought-thing, but rather, become the thinking event. When this happens, Rinpoche says:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once we can specify THE TIME OF THINKING in thinking, thinking offers its own feedback. It constructs and conducts in a way that is more truly transitional and less bound to the structure of substance.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can move into greater intimacy with what is presented, touching what is actual in the experience of thinking and making direct contact with awareness. In intimacy, lines of communication form. We are not confined to linear or circular structures, but can return to the multidimensionality of appearance. Feedback invites a new sense of the whole. When thoughts unfold from one to the next, inviting us to lose ourselves in the endless progression of their content, the world becomes linear. But in the time of thinking, other dimensions are available. There is the arising of the thought, the activity of thinking, the transition between thoughts, and the one who is thinking. The depth of these added dimensions can become a doorway into an unexpected realm. A simple question may open the door: What is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinside\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the string of beads? Can we \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 there?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DTS pp. 251-2<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting question in that TIME AS A UNITY IS DIFFERENTLY EXPERIENCED\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the initial point of perception is open, the shutter on the lens is unblocked.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The thinking mind is no longer obligated to construct a reality, and thoughts are no longer structured by the need to arrive at a specified destination. Thought residues seem less solid, their power less strong.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DTS p.250<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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