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Photo: ‘Middle of the Ripples’ by cocoparisienne \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Pixabay
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RESTING IN RIPPLES\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

In Full Presence Mindfulness classes, and TSK, we are often invited to explore in our immediate experience how the self operates at the center of our lived story\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to observe the mostly unspoken, but felt story of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a starting point of all stories we tell. We link all our stories about the world we know\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe how things are\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to this fundamental story that we hold at the center of our constellation of stories. The result is we shape our experience, our self-image, and our self-interest around this self-story. As our teacher says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Committed to the self as subject, we live in a world of objects, a world that often feels dead or meaningless.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And Rinpoche suggests this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u02dclower knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [becomes] tediously repetitive and deadening. It is basically a functioning on the level of a recording machine\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6superficial responses laboriously and mechanically attributed to a knowing subject.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

So over time we employ a kind of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshorthand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 way to confront the situations we encounter in daily life to avoid overload. As psychologist, Donnell B. Stern Ph. D suggests\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153CONVENTIONAL NARRATIVES are easy to adopt; we tend to slip into the simplest account of the events at hand\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [After all, we] must have shorthand methods of negotiating life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or we would never do anything\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the least important task would command endless fascination\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Conventional narratives\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 are so seductively easy to slip into that we are seldom even aware of having chosen them. [Often we find ourselves] hovering around the cultural mean, around the predigested perceptions that probably would occur to a substantial portion of the populace.<\/em><\/p>\n

ORIGINAL NARRATIVES are difficult to formulate, we have to think carefully, explicitly, and imaginatively, and feel deeply, to come up with a story that includes all the details and still ends up saying what we really mean.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Unformulated Experience\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, by Donnel B. Stern, p. 139-40<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It seems that stories give shape, form, and meaning to the space we inhabit, and they ripple out and provide a structure to our world. I see how often I get stuck in the structuring, caught in the undertow and flow of my ever-breaking waves of concern\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 However\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 as Stern points to ‘creating original narratives from deeper levels of ourselves<\/em>‘, Rinpoche also further suggests\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When we look at our present situation from the perspective of the whole, we discover a different dynamic within the subjective point of view. We realize that we do not have to accept or reject conventional structures, and also do not have to put in place some new version of reality\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Whatever operates now is one face of the whole. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 does not confine us. How can it, when it is simply the front side of zero, the mask through whose mouth we first hear of the point of origin? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6we can look for the knowledge within knowledge. There is the wave, but there is also the curve of the wave. And beyond that, there is the ocean.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/em>Tarthang Tulku, p. 171<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AT THE LINC\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 A TSK student observes in his practice that almost every moment seems to ripple outward\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 in waves of ripples\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 there is depth in the midst of the ripples\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and this is the source of original narratives, and that it is also possible to rest there, in the middle of the ripple\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Rest in the Ripple…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n