{"id":9904,"date":"2021-02-14T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:18:17","slug":"expanding-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9904","title":{"rendered":"EXPANDING AWARENESS…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the readings for the current advanced Full Presence Mindfulness FPM course it talks about the need for a new vision of knowledge, a new expanded awareness. In my private discussions with TSK students, one long-time student, Hayward, succinctly suggested, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The new knowledge Rinpoche writes about [in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDynamics of Time and Space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em>, Chap. 25,] is the knowing of knowing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Rinpoche writes on p. 245…<\/p>\n

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“As human beings, we have a wealth of experience that we can draw on to activate knowledge. Yet often we seem to ignore experience in favor of the surface contents of our thoughts, the identities disclosed to the senses, and other structures we impose on what arises.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [Our teacher, Jack Petranker points to this as <\/em>‘The Tyranny of Content,<\/em>‘ the title of our course.]<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beneath this preference for the presupposed, a strong tension or fear operates, a sense that if we let go of the accustomed, we ourselves will disappear. Motivated by a naked wish to survive, we conduct forward a driving restlessness, never allowing ourselves to sink into our own being. As a counter to this view, consider the possibility that there is nothing to disappear.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rinpoche also points out on p. 247… <\/p>\n

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“It also seems possible to engage knowledge more directly. Instead of insisting on perception, we can develop visions of knowledge. Instead of relying on thoughts, we can cultivate the lightening of awareness. Instead of making knowledge into a servant, we can see it as provider.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are<\/em> questions we can ask and observations we can make that encourage the mind to embody knowledge as the inwardness of an unfolding inquiry. How did our present situation develop? What is the past that gave rise to it? What are the specific structures and attitudes that bar us from greater knowledge? What happens when we do not own what is known? When we do not abandon direct experience for wishes, fears, and expectations? (emphasis added)<\/p>\n

Once these questions become real in our experience, we can extend them into each situation. Each moment can become a gateway to the knowledge that is already available\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwithin mind, within experience, within each structure that we conduct.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I find these questions to be magical. They question the self; they catch it off guard. The self doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like having its tools, language and stories, used to confront its own tyranny of content. The self is shocked into silence. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the same when you find your \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 immersed in mental stories of desire, anger, or anxiety, and you suddenly ask: ‘Who is angry?’ or ‘Who is afraid?’ or ‘Who desires?’ The self is momentarily silenced. What is that experience of silence? How does it feel? A doorway to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcboundless availability<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122? Is it knowing the knowing<\/em>? Try the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 inquiry and see what opens for you… \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who is…?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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