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Hi All! Nice to be\u00c2\u00a0 back.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hard to get a general understanding of Rinpoche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concept \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intentional knowledge,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d however yesterday I saw it more directly in a moment of desire; a seeing which challenged my patterns some (thankfully).<\/p>\n
A woman was crossing the street as I was passing by, and I looked a second time with a longing kind of mind. It was only momentary, but it was enough time for me to see the overlay of intentionality (desire) in my reading of the moment. And as soon as I saw that, I could see an underlying layer of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdescriptive knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that laid the foundation for the longing to spin its magic. Very interesting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c because I then sensed that that descriptive level, too, needs examination \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to see if what it presents as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c2\u00a0 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwoman,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00c2\u00a0would stand up to scrutiny as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 independent of a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 here.<\/p>\n
Later I did some \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFocusing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work (Genlin: www.focusing.org<\/a>) with the desire and a resistance arose to absorbing this insight, because (said that part of me) it was afraid of what this would mean for the project of securing happiness; and, further, what it would mean for the project of securing the happiness of existing as an intentional self. Wonderful.<\/p>\n (I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but notice that this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdescriptive\u00c2\u00a0 knowledge and intentional knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 distinction matches the tri-svabhava concept of representations and imagination. The representation being unchallenged, the imagination has something to build on.<\/p>\n In the past this wasn’t so easy to see, because I kidded myself that the longing wasn’t actually an intention in respect of the longed-for ‘object.’ But now the intentionality in desire is much clearer.<\/p>\n Christopher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi All! Nice to be\u00c2\u00a0 back. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hard to get a general understanding of Rinpoche\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concept \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intentional knowledge,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d however yesterday I saw it more directly in a moment of desire; a seeing which challenged my patterns some (thankfully). A … Continue reading