{"id":9088,"date":"2018-12-18T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:43:55","slug":"9088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9088","title":{"rendered":"THAT TOO IS \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo courtesy of: ‘I Am The Sky’ by artjoao – Pixabay
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THAT TOO IS \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n

Instead of narrowly grasping at things we want, we simply \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcopen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to everything, all that we fear and hold back is simply overwhelmed by everything we allow in\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 EVERYTHING, and it far outweighs all imagined boundaries, boxes, enclosures, confines, coops, and folds\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153[Try] to notice\u00e2\u20ac\u201din all your thoughts, sensations, and direct encounters\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe objects and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcoutside-standers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that make appearance meaningful. FOR EACH OBJECT ENCOUNTERED OR REFERRED TO, note it and EMBRACE IT IN ITS IMMEDIATE GIVENNESS AS BEING PART OF \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcYOU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. You can do this both by saying to yourself, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That too is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and by extending your sense of located awareness to embrace the apparently separate and distant object.<\/em><\/p>\n

This exercise [on INTIMACY,] helps to counteract the tendency to polarize experience, which creates a self that is cut off from the rest of reality\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 if practiced carefully, it will undermine the idea of a solid and continuous \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/em>
\n…’Time, Space, and Knowledge,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Tarthang Tulku, p. 189<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For me, Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem embraces this practice\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

USER FRIENDLY
\n\tby Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

This is the friendly story,
\nThe open door, hand shake,
\n Hot meal, cup of coffee story,<\/p>\n

Done.<\/p>\n

And I think to ask about the sky above,
\nI am that satisfied,
\nThe day is that rare,<\/p>\n

Why is there such a high and open loop of blue above?
\nWhy is it edged by space and stars,
\nBy looms of spreading towers of rainbow light?<\/p>\n

And a voice replied,<\/p>\n

I am the sky,
\nI am the clouds, the rain, the flowers,
\nI am every bagel, every morning, every smear of cream cheese,
\nI am all the lox that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been ever known.<\/p>\n

And I said, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really cool,
\nThen I went on about my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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