--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I'm wondering whether there might be a better model > > > for witnessing than a simple binary ON/OFF switch. > > > How about more of a rheostat control? > > > > Sure, why not? But, it does seem like the witnessing state can come > > and go, a la the binary ON/OFF switch. IIRC, one guy at the Wednesday > > night satsangs expressed great relief when the 24/7 witnessing > > stopped. I also spoke with one of the Waking Down teachers about > > witnessing sleep, and he said he'd experienced it and that sleep was > > more enjoyable without it. > > > > Back in May, I drove up to Minneapolis, and I got lost in St. Louis > > Park (a suburb) looking for my hotel. And, it was very interesting to > > become aware that part of me was not at all involved in the anger and > > frustration of being lost in a big city. > > > > Fast forward to a few days ago, when our water system died, and I > > needed to access the cistern, and I discovered that the cistern lid > > was half-buried under heavy clay because the goddamned vastu > > rectification encroached on it, and I had to fucking hack away at > > rock hard soil in 100 fucking degree heat because some superstitious > > bullshit meant soil needed to be piled up on top of existing critical > > infrastructure. Was I aware of that uninvolved witness at that > > moment? No fucking way. I was pissed off beyond belief and totally > > overshadowed. > > > > I think the lesson there is that shift happens, and it's best to not > > latch on to any particular state or experience. > > I can identify with all of the above. I had to help my neighbor > move furniture today in heat almost as bad, and could have > sworn at the time that there was no witnessing going down. > Then I sat at twilight on the terrace of the house I'm staying in. > It is built upon and overlooks the ramparts of the medieval > village. The swallows were out, swooping everywhere, pick- > ing insects out of the air. And voila! there was full-fledged, > Grade A Prime witnessing. > > And the second thought that hit me, after the thought, "Oh, > there's that witnessing thing again," was, "Oh shit...this has > been here all day, but I just didn't notice it." So I'm wondering > whether the ON/OFF switch really is the proper metaphor. > Now that I look back on it, another way of describing today > would be that during the day I was operating with a low > appreciation of the witnessing, and when evening came, > for whatever reason, I shifted to operating with a higher > appreciation of witnessing. But there was no sense of > shift, of a transistion from non-witnessing to witnessing. > It was more like noticing, after the fact, that I had moved > from less witnessing to more witnessing. > > I've never really noticed this "lack of shift" before. It's an > interesting perception, and has caused me to rethink > many things and challenge many previously-assumed > assumptions. > > Cool day.
Allof these things appear to me to be contained in MMY's theory about progression in CC... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
