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Photo: ‘Edge of the Future’ – Pixabay
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TSK and Full Presence Mindfulness students are invited to take a first-person look within their own experience and inquire into its \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunfolding<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as Time, Space and Knowing. Glimpses, or momentary flashes, seem often to come from observing the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfirst impression<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Living and breathing the experience, THEN reflecting on that observation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 reviewing what happened, and how it felt.<\/p>\n

You might describe the FIRST IMPRESSION experience as being at the EDGE OF THE FUTURE, the point of awareness where the future comes into being\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Where the fine-spun and subtle formulate or begin. Rinpoche uses the term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcUNESTABLISHED THOUGHT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as one way to describe this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a pointless-point in time where meaning is about to happen, but has not yet been interpreted, purposefully structured, or shaped by a SELF\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a perceiving apparatus that continuously senses and aggregates.<\/p>\n

For instance, I think of momentary lived points [moments of concern] ALONG A TIMELINE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 my living\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 some moments are experienced as arising cognition’s from a zero-point\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [thoughts just pop up] as I structure the experience to have meaning for me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 other points are glossed over, others are looked into as I might \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeel-in<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to deeper levels of the experience. The point itself is an instant, a tick, or a bit of structuring that I do, as if starting by drawing a circle in space, creating a bubble or context to cohere, value, to mean, and narrate for myself in order to remember\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But I glimpse that all these points open to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpointless\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 space. The prior ZERO-LESS that seems necessary in order that a point might proceed. At the actual zero-point, is where perception seems to begin<\/strong>, and it can be exceedingly subtle\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In his book, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcUnformulated Experience<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Donnell B. Stern suggests:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have momentary glimmers of where our conscious experience may go, glimmers we may or may not be aware of, and that certainly do not require the complete formulation of a meaning or experience\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we can use feelings of tendency to gauge the direction our experience is taking. On the bases of that information, we can choose to develop\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or avoid\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 certain articulations of our experience, without ever having actually to know what articulations they would have become if we had allowed the process to reach completion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We develop those articulations we believe we can tolerate, or that further our purpose, or those that promise a feeling of safety\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we disassociate the meanings that we believe we will not be able to tolerate, that frighten us and seem to threaten the fulfillment of our deepest intentions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d p. 127-8<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AT THE LINC\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 A Full Presence Mindfulness and TSK student inquires further into his experience of the zero-point\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and explores what is happening at the edge, where the future comes into being<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 also see the comments below that post\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Tripping Over Zero – A Walkabout Practice<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n