Pat--
You are welcome!
Your picture of a membrane is stretching my picture. I had seen a
membrane as more or less two dimensional, sort of a film with no
detectable thickness.
Yet I sense that your membrane has space, sort of like those text book
pictures of skin showing epidermis and dermis and several more layers.
So there is more than a this side of the membrane and that side, but
also an inside. And that comports with what I have been seeing for many
years: there is this space where you and I meet which is not inside
either of us, and there we play as in Rumi's field.
I am not sure what your sentence about the veil means, and am curious.
As you may know, veil has a special meaning to me.
Thanks, Pat, for continuing the evocations!
:- Doug.
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:20 -0500, Pat Black wrote:
> I think of the between space as the permeable membrane. The shape of
> the membrane, the spaces within the membrane change and are different
> depending on what is happening on either side of it. It is constantly
> transformed by the communication of its bordering spaces. These
> spaces are changed by their relationship with the other space and this
> between or membrane transforms itself to allow the continued
> relationship of the two otherwise they would become poisoned. I see
> the veil of the micro world so clearly in Alexander's description of
> the macro world. Thanks Doug for sharing the quote.
> Pat Black
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil <we...@xe.net>
> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> You wrote:
>
> But I think there is a next step, a deeper step: it is to the
> between. He writes of something *making*
> me feel alive, *generating* a feeling of life, *inducing*
> greater harmony: these speak of one (living)
> thing touching--meeting--another. It is this bumping,
> interacting, back and forth which is the
> essence of what he is pointing to. This happens only in the
> between.
>
>
> I hear you speaking of ki. Here is a quote from Terry Dobson
> Sensei:
>
> You are not an inert piece of stuff. You are a vibrating,
> charged, radiant being. There is a meeting
> between us. That's ki.
>
> As i understand it so far, ki is conceptualized as permeating
> all matter, not just living beings. So it
> could also be experienced in relationship to open space, in
> any environment.
>
> Cheers,
> Wendy
>
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