{"id":9020,"date":"2018-11-08T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T17:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9020"},"modified":"2018-11-09T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:03:13","slug":"partitions-occupancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9020","title":{"rendered":"PARTITIONS & OCCUPANCY\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PARTITIONS AND OCCUPANCY\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

TSK Instructor, Ken McKeon invites consideration of the hum of thoughts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a stream of stuff colored by feelings, and meanings put together by the moments\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 like stories I tell myself without uttering a sound. Stories that seem to always make me the subject at some distance from other stuff\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 objects\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 some are seemingly self-contained, leaving others only contained by the proximity of other boundaries, like meanings bumping against opinions and conclusions. BUT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 even the subject and the objects co-arise within a more allowing and encompassing realm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pick out an object, either one that is present before you or one that you imagine. Focusing on the edge of the object, consider that this is also the edge of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcempty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 space. Reflect on the difference between space and what it contains, which should be most noticeable at the edge you have identified. Are there properties and qualities of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcspace as container\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that you are able to contact and that help account for its ability to serve as a container? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Which of the properties that we attribute to the object \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbelong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to the object and which \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbelong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to the space that (at various levels) contains the object.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6The logical approach is to say that physical and mental have separate characteristics that can be distinguished from one another. The second approach moves toward merging the physical and mental. In what sense are mental qualities physical? In what sense are physical qualities mental? Careful attention to this question can lead to experiencing different energies that are neither physical nor mental.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Knowledge of Time and Space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Tarthang Tulku, p. 188-9<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The exercise, and Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem invites Inquiry into partitions and occupancy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the poem may also point elsewhere\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

CHASING BUZZ
\n\tBy Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

Everything comes in canisters, bottles, tubes, boxes, cans,
\nBodies all, contained, restrained,
\nI hug them to me,
\n I go so far as to stroke coffins,
\nCardboard, mahogany, polished steel, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter,
\nContainment matters, shape holding counts,<\/p>\n

Think of the deeper knowing,
\n Think of a capsule
\nShooting through blue black space time
\nInto the mind of a snoozing god,<\/p>\n

That shell might hold all the breath of humankind,
\nIt might just keep the out flow
\nFrom flowing so far out
\nThat it would never return,<\/p>\n

Recycling would be gone forever,
\nNo getting anything back,
\nOnly an endlessness of a staggering snoring
\nDown to the never to be last whispering of time,
\n That would be such a drag,
\n There would be simply no limits
\n To the ever so angular you,
\nA bed fast dummy,
\n Transcendently numbed out
\n By the wafts of centaurs
\nPrancing through the sleeping fields of Mars,<\/p>\n

Would you want that to be your fate finality?
\n Of course not.
\nNobody would,
\nNot even a reclining god,
\nThe divinity would eventually have to step away from its bed,
\nIt would have to pee, it would want coffee,
\nIt would want to check out the news,<\/p>\n

Its thoughts would roll on out
\n To the window of its life,
\nAnd there you would be,
\n A kind of shiny gnat sized thing
\n Just sailing on by,
\nAnd the god would smile
\n And you would wave,<\/p>\n

Just before the shattering all done doors of this singular everywhere
\n Slam shut forever
\nOn this most recent morning of your life,
\n As you head on out into infinity and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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