On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:58:26 -0700, Chris Corrigan wrote: "That is, I was conscious of letting go of many attachments, "especially those that were about outcome, and things like my sponsor "showing up, the food being cooked for dozens who weren't there and "so on.
Dear Chris, Audrey and all, Thank you for what you (Chris) again wrote about the open space without participants showing up. Your reflections are valuable for me, because they touch something I had not clear for myself. What you wrote about holding the space there, speaks to me to be an altered modus of mind (independently of people being present in physical space), relates two aspects I did not interconnect so directly, i.e. 'meditation' and 'Open and hold Space' LET GO & PERCEIVE WHAT IS Written as a formula for the special case: Opening and holding the space for no one, everyone = the basic form of individual meditation For me this combines well with the idea of opening the space as a ritual altering the "everyday-trance" of us all. Or is that too 'simple'? You also wrote: "I recall that it was no less difficult or tiring to hold space for no one (everyone) than it was for a group of people. To me this points to the fact that space holding is about something other than people. Why was I so tired?" If I relate this insight and the question to my experience, it seems to be very simple: "Letting Go" and "Opening for what is" is hard mental work. Still after doing it there ist flux<->reflux of more and more energy, having to do with more 'integrity' of my own process in opening, holding, being my space. Bernhard ----- [email protected] 02.05.2002 at 09:44:32 (GMT/UT + 02:00) * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
