{"id":9695,"date":"2020-07-22T14:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T20:44:09","slug":"points-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9695","title":{"rendered":"POINTS OF CONCERN\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9696\" style=\"width: 1072px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Points-of-Concern-by-Gerd-Altmann-Pixabay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9696\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Points-of-Concern-by-Gerd-Altmann-Pixabay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"751\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Points-of-Concern-by-Gerd-Altmann-Pixabay.jpg 1062w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Points-of-Concern-by-Gerd-Altmann-Pixabay-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Points-of-Concern-by-Gerd-Altmann-Pixabay-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Points-of-Concern-by-Gerd-Altmann-Pixabay-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:  &#8216;Points of Concern&#8217; by Gerd Altmann &#8211; Pixabay<br \/>https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yxb3zw2e<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>POINTS OF CONCERN\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Full Presence Mindfulness class we were talking about the practice of being at the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcedge of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we go directly to the point of arising itself: the point in each experience where the future could be said to come into being\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we touch an aliveness that can expand within our awareness. The possibility emerges for a dynamic knowing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rinpoche points to a &#8216;<em>luminous vitality<\/em>&#8216; available, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>at the edge of the future<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Through practice I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had glimpses\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 tasted a specific flavor.  For instance, when I am writing, and pause to consider what to say and how to express it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a zero-point\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 where new perception begins\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a welcoming pause at the edge of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 waiting, you might say, for the zeroless to inform zero\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 for the unformulated to formulate, so that I may speak it through my voice.  Right there dynamic knowing is revealed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>ZERO MAKES POSSIBLE THE \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 OF \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWHERE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, THE FORM THAT HOLDS MEANING, THE MOVING FROM POINT TO POINT.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tarthang Tulku, p. 50-2<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I thought of another instance of dynamic knowing at the edge of the future, when looking calmly into a REMEMBRANCE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 you might discover gaps or discontinuities, areas that are fuzzy or incomplete\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You may go directly in to each \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgap\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.  They can open to reveal more of the remembrance.  You may do this with any gap encountered.  At some point the memory opened, I discovered a memory was not a frozen image or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.  It was a series of summaries of impressions focused upon in time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 each \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcenfolded\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into summary after summary that I put together and held in time.  Observing at the edge of the future, I saw HOW I put them together.  I included patterns and excluded others that were there, I made micro-second judgments about what I liked and did not like, there was an ordering and managing of sensual aspects of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe memory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, only now available as I looked back\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 all the while having never left the edge of the future Now.  I saw how by \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunfolding\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 now what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d previously \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcenfolded\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Seeing this was dynamic knowing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a delicious taste of a &#8216;luminous vitality&#8217; that Rinpoche points to at the edge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It becomes clear when facing a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPOINT OF CONCERN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, going into it opens it.  Standing back to consider it creates a distance, and makes it an object.  Rather, diving into\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the gap, the discontinuity, the fuzzy confusion, the pain, the fear, the transitions between\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the not-known\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 is where dynamic knowing often activates.  Rinpoche suggests regarding the idea that the past is happening now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153T<em>o attain this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknowingness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 we can begin with objects and experiences, using them to work back to the knowingness and clarity which they bear. Then, using that clarity, we can SEE ALL EXPERIENCES AS BEING PRESERVED IN A COMMON GROUND IN SUCH A WAY THAT THERE IS NOTHING SEPARATING THEM, one from the other. Our experience of last year and our experience of today both have the same clarity within them, and that clarity shows that they are even more fundamentally linked\u00e2\u20ac\u201dTHE IDEA THAT ONE IS \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPREVIOUS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 TO THE OTHER IS INCORRECT. The previous is not previous, the distant is not distant.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dynamics of Time and Space,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Tarthang Tulku, p.282<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POINTS OF CONCERN\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In Full Presence Mindfulness class we were talking about the practice of being at the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcedge of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we go directly to the point of arising itself: the point in each experience where the future could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9695\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,262,79,43,195,51,85,115,119,80],"tags":[79,43,195,85,115,205],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-full-presence-mindfulness","category-arising","category-being","category-intimacy","category-knowledge","category-memory","category-opening","category-pointing","category-zeroless","tag-arising","tag-being","tag-intimacy","tag-memory","tag-opening","tag-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}