{"id":967,"date":"2009-04-10T06:59:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2009\/04\/10\/the-edge-of-the-future-class-3-unit-2\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T17:43:16","slug":"the-edge-of-the-future-class-3-unit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"The Edge of the Future – Class 3, Unit 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edge of the Future – photo by gonzalo ar – Flickr
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There are times, while walking in nature for instance, a new moment emerges untouched, where the haze of thoughts and self concerns are blown away like dark smoke, and the seed of a new moment is born, freshly germinating by an impression deeply felt.\u00c2\u00a0Gradually, after the experience of such openness begins to fill in with thoughts and other consolidating structures, the open potential of the original moment thins out into a string of my usual desires and perpetuating stories.\u00c2\u00a0But I can sometimes choose to again orient toward the edge of the future.\u00c2\u00a0Reorienting toward the edge seems to be free of inhibiting attitudes and concerns for safety, it’s a feeling of open expectancy, pleasant anticipation without an object, an acceptance and trust in whatever emerges with an almost playful curiosity.\u00c2\u00a0It feels fresh, free, and new – a pristine moment, a blooming seed of time.<\/p>\n

The ‘edge of the future<\/em>‘ does not seem so much a boundary as a welcoming attitude; and not so much a place as an arising of the present. Whether in the midst of normal activities or deep meditation, it’s not altogether where<\/em> I look but how<\/em>. It does<\/em> manifest as the new, the fresh, and the revitalizing, or so it seems to me. It’s accepting the openness of the unknown…<\/p>\n

David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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