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On DTS p.26, Rinpoche says:
This now begins to make sense to me. I could have simply ‘not’ engaged inquiry at all to simply skim the surface of my experience to arrive at pretty much the same description in the first paragraph of my initial post. That would have been how the world was for me then, but instead, I inquired further into the field communiqué and discovered the world was not as simple as I thought, I learned there was much more to see and experience, simply by opening and inquiring into it.
David
Still reflecting on the field communiqué behind the description of the vivid experience I posted. The assigned readings tell us the field communiqué transmits itself forward through names and concepts, giving qualities that are referred to entities.
I sensed the unseen hand of the field communiqué honing and shaping not only through the ‘logic‘ of the telling, the coherent unfolding of the story of my experience – the field is there bounded by the limits of my view of it – and within that view objects are named and identified, colors are noted, entities were probed. Even deeper than the logic of the telling was the back and forth flitting of mental pieces being put together that was under no one’s control. The quality of heightened alertness or aliveness was referred to both observer (the self), and the observed (the world that was being set in place by the field communiqué) — ‘the view from the porch’. And I was the self that ultimately claimed the experience, the lord of the field – the one who knows, as I reflected on it. But I was also aware at a deeper level that there were flash impressions ricocheting of co-referring field contents, too fast to grasp or ‘re-cognize’ them.
So what was the insight that I came away with from this experience? What did I see not just conceptually, but in a very direct, experiential and most memorable way? I saw/felt it happening, that within aware space ‘I’ and ‘the world’ arise and take form. It is a profound and jolting realization. I may ultimately claim knowledge as the knower, but actually the ‘capacity for knowing’ is available for intimate contact, and it’s prior to the arisings the field communiqué structures.
David
Thanks for the kind words Tina,
Observation gets better with practice, as you know. Not only does the observation improve, but so does the ability to reflect on it. The intent to practice, for me, also includes the intent to remember what I observed. Then, it’s a matter of slowing down my tendency to rush through time and just replay the memory almost in extra slow motion to write it down. Something like that. :-) It even reads like that doesn’t it!
Best wishes,
David
You are an awesome writer David. The way you express experience is so TSK…LOL…it helps me so much to read your experiencing, and explanation of it. I am doing a little better with that, where as usually, I have been able to express my experience in poetry, I am now learning how to disect it as you do in more expanding ways. Thank you for your excellent contributions. I have learned so much from those that do post on the discussion board, and I hope that we can do more of that. I did some practicing along the Sonoma Coast a bit last week, which as it turns out, was similiar to what this practice suggested. You have encouraged me now to write about it, after reading this beautiful piece of yours. Love to you my tsk brother, always, Tina.