{"id":9132,"date":"2019-01-19T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2019-01-19T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:12:48","slug":"swoop-and-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9132","title":{"rendered":"SWEEP AND SWOOP&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9110\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOrange-Beaked-Gull-Sings-Out-the-Sea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-Pixabay-e1547845353888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9110\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOrange-Beaked-Gull-Sings-Out-the-Sea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-Pixabay-e1547845353888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9110\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:  \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOrange Beaked Gull Sings Out the Sea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 &#8211; Pixabay<br \/>https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9fmgrnh<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem opens in me a kind of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcallowing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsweep and swoop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 an openness accommodating all within and without\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and also an ending of those distinctions\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>There are countless pathways\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Access is there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Once we can let go of our concern with reporting back every step of our progress, we have the opportunity to invite a deepening knowledge. As we extend and advance and elaborate, innovate and sustain and crystallize, we activate the inward, indeterminate knowledge of eknosis [inward outward knowing]. It is like suddenly learning how to fly: Before we advanced in a mechanical way; now we can soar and float and sweep and swoop.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dynamics of Time and Space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Tarthang Tulku, p. 183<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>JANUARY MATIN<br \/>\n\tby Ken McKeon<\/p>\n<p>Cloud forms, muted luminosities, light rain,<br \/>\nMore unhinged ventricles of the heart of time,<br \/>\nAnd I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m weathered out,<br \/>\nSo I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bagging it,<br \/>\nDipping down below all my sensory participations,<br \/>\nTo let the brick road disappear<br \/>\nOver the green hill by itself,<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m done with daisies,<br \/>\n    With all the seeds of time that feed the spring,<br \/>\n       And the whole blooming world<br \/>\n        Says howdy to itself in a rush<br \/>\n           Of freshly petaled wind,<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all nifty sexy laughter,<br \/>\nAnd I am less than a dirt clod,<br \/>\nA grumbler in a cardboard room,<br \/>\nSitting in an empty Kleenex box of time,<br \/>\nI have a bad cold and feel like a sneeze,<\/p>\n<p>So I head inside, get behind my rib cage,<br \/>\nLungs are cushy bulging vastly living flexing lumpy things,<br \/>\nThey are my special air,<br \/>\n    I live within their customary breeze,<br \/>\nI am the holy beat of my living heart,<br \/>\n    The stinging snap of my spine,<br \/>\nMy big belly floats above my groin,<\/p>\n<p>Mantra displays itself,<br \/>\nIt is inscribed within each cell.<br \/>\nWhen I stir, a prayer wheel turns<br \/>\nWithin the small, the moderate, the large,<\/p>\n<p>The laughter is welcoming and immeasurable,<br \/>\nA deep wave surging as an air, as a small winged thing,<br \/>\nAs the silvery wave froth bubbling flow eliding all thought of me,<br \/>\nAnd the orange beaked, white winged gull sings out the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem opens in me a kind of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcallowing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsweep and swoop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 an openness accommodating all within and without\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and also an ending of those distinctions\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are countless pathways\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Access is there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Once we can let go of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[136,195,51,40],"tags":[169,195,40],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-intimacy","category-knowledge","category-poetry","tag-higher-knowing","tag-intimacy","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","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=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}