2016.08.25 - Clarity

"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know." - Henry David Thoreau
 

32 A.

This is an exercise that works well with one of Ewan's mindfulness explorations,
for those attending that. As with the mirror idea that I brought up a few weeks
ago, visualization with a candle ahead of visualizing light without a candle, makes
this another exploration that it is then easier to do anywhere. I understand why
the subject/object reversal exercise comes before this one in the text, because
this felt very fluid.

One thing I noticed is that I couldn't not incorporate previous exercises into this
one. As I found the light and let it come forward as not just the center image but
also 'around', the extent to which focus subtly shifted and felt to be not from the
place I thought of as me and places visualized naturally, did its own thing in a
playful yet not disconnected way.

That's my practical description. My more poetical description would be that of 
listening to music, where there is my knowledge or particular interest in particular
types of sounds, and the music not sticking with that. The field includes what I
am familiar with and know, with and also an opening for what I'd not heard within
the piece before. The light visualization... open eyed meditation in this case, was
more energetic and enjoyable as a receptive stance than when I was deliberate.

That's it.