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GIANT BODY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c THE HAND\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

We continued to explore the GIANT BODY exercise by going smaller\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that may sound contradictory, but you might say we \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfelt<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 our way more than conceptualized. And \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeeling<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is what opened the thought, feeling breathed life into imagination, feeling is what united mind and body.<\/p>\n

We were told to vigorously rub our hands together and feel the energy and heat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 then slowly move your hand closer to your eyes and imagine what was beneath the flesh\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the veins, muscle, sinew, blood and bones. Close your eyes, and feel what you are visualizing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and that is what did it for me. The judgment that my imagination was just a limited image I conjured, and not real\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it became something else. That frozen opinion melted, and space opened as I became aware of another dimension\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the feel of the hand, the FEEL of the visualization. That FEEL was the opening of space\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 an opening of a mental construct, a head-thing, and the visualization became an embodiment. Watching that as it happened was a subtle revelation, one I commonly overlook by going right to the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchead-thing<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n

Adding the tactile dimension to a thought seemed like putting something together that actually went well together. I smile at the simplicity and transparency of that notion. Adding the space of another sense to conceptual thought opened one dimension to another\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it made an idea an event, a lived experience. It demonstrated to me that imagination is also knowing, not inferior to, but a knowing aspect.<\/p>\n

I notice I can see the leaves of trees, but include the spaces between, and in the space between is where I feel the living\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Central to the very heart of reality, a beautiful vision is available\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhen we can \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 without adopting limiting positions. This vision concerns Space, which is primordially peaceful, open. In its openness, it is an open-ended accommodating of various views, all welling up, floating, gathering within Space. Although undisturbed, it is filled with appearance. Space is therefore not static, but is instead a serene explosion of expanding creativity\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Colors, forms, all experience, art, music, philosophy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare expressions of Space. While engaging in an intertwining, completely interpenetrating dance, they are still a free-flowing presence of translucent outlines and surfaces. Each engagement is a profound and mysterious enactment of central import, marking out the traceless, centerless center of reality. Each individual presence is this open-ended centerless center . . . Space.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTime, Space, Knowledge<\/em>,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 p. xxxii<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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