{"id":9203,"date":"2019-04-17T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9203"},"modified":"2019-04-19T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:06:09","slug":"space-between-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9203","title":{"rendered":"SPACE BETWEEN THOUGHTS\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SPACE BETWEEN THOUGHTS\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been said we are like fish who swim constantly unaware of the water \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 by comparison perhaps, we who continuously live in a world focused on interacting objects, and mostly ignore the space in which they arise, and out of which they are composed\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Rinpoche says\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The usual subject-object polarization of experience includes a fascination with a kind of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfrom-to\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 distribution. The subject is always looking ahead and cannot, in the same act, take itself and the limitations of its ways of knowing into account. One of these limitations is that the self must always obtrude upon something and interject its \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthinking thoughts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in order to appreciate that thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 By taking exception to this orientation, [it is possible] to locate an alternative \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcseeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 alongside the occurrence of mental events. This alternative is a break in the flow of self-saying thoughts, a profound silence, an openness. Nevertheless, it is accessible, something that can be participated in, but without a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 who participates.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTime, Space, Knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Tarthang Tulku, p. 59<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TSK instructor Ken divulges a very personal poem, I cannot express the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdepths\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of what he speaks, but for me, it hints at what Rinpoche is pointing to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

AROUND HERE
\n\tby Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

I feel as easy as a newt,
\n A wavering light form
\n Sustained by the warm waters
\n Of a small pool,<\/p>\n

But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a pool much larger than I could ever be,
\nI see it as an atmosphere,
\nAn open spacious holding
\nThat is my everywhere,<\/p>\n

I know this as I know the roundness of my limbs,
\nKnow this from the inside,
\nEven as I look down at my mottled hands
\nWith their crimped fingers,
\nTheir evident uselessness,<\/p>\n

Within them blood still flows
\nIn completely unformulated
\nSwimming wholes
\nThat fill me with my heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own life,<\/p>\n

That calls forth a smile,
\nA nearly shining textured perfection quality
\nOf a brimming fullness path,<\/p>\n

I am wholly effortless today,
\nAnd yet words still show up,
\nWords and the rounding breaths
\nI find even in the blinkings
\nOf my globular eyes,<\/p>\n

They are the slow lifts and fades of light,
\nI am my own calendar,
\nIllustrated, motionless, ever here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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