{"id":983,"date":"2009-05-02T00:56:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T07:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2009\/05\/02\/the-perfume-of-nowness\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:32:50","slug":"the-perfume-of-nowness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"The Perfume of Nowness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks back I took up a suggestion of Jack&#8217;s to be at the edge of the emerging future. That was a great practice! Within a couple of days I found myself unhitched from ordinary time-frames &#8211; indeed, I felt, more stably than ever, that I truly didn&#8217;t have any idea what time was\/is. I found myself living in a flow of intensity of experience. This seemed to make it easier to see when I was &#8216;identified&#8217; with the narratives, because I could quickly feel the sense of being impeded in my flow.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed, in those moments, the weight of accumulation of a life-times &#8216;purpose-making.&#8217; I notice that my main impediment seems to be that I unconsciously assume &#8216;efforting&#8217; (in the form of &#8216;serious purpose&#8217; and its attendant narratives) is necessary to being myself. However, this exercise was great for lightening up, heaps.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the purposeless intensity of &#8216;experiencing&#8217; hasn&#8217;t receded entirely &#8211; the sense of the identity of time with the flow of experiencing is with me like a perfume. Gassho, TSK, from Christopher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks back I took up a suggestion of Jack&#8217;s to be at the edge of the emerging future. That was a great practice! Within a couple of days I found myself unhitched from ordinary time-frames &#8211; indeed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-fall-2008winter-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}