Love your offering about the table. Very Thich Nhat Hanh-esque and so true. The totality of all those things is what makes it a table. And once it is split from that, the table ceases to be a table.
Excellent Chris. Meditation practice seems like the most direct and sustainable means of staying connected to vast openness of possibility you describe. Do you have a regular meditation practice? If so, curious what form that takes.
Hey Rick, I've experimented with many different practices over the years. Currently, I'm doing a combination of Loch Kelly's Effortless Mindfulness work and some more traditional Vajrayana practices such as deity yoga. If you haven't checked out Loch's work yet, I think you might enjoy it. I wrote a curated intro to it during Write of Passage: https://chriscordry.com/articles/effortless-mindfulness-beginners-loch-kelly
I remember reading this article back when you published it. Especially appreciated the idea of "waking out" as an expanse toward relationship as a fundamental means of softening personal edges.
Love your offering about the table. Very Thich Nhat Hanh-esque and so true. The totality of all those things is what makes it a table. And once it is split from that, the table ceases to be a table.
Thanks Jimmy, yes--I've always liked Thich Nhat Hanh's way of talking about emptiness and "interbeing"
This is so powerful and such a clear way of explaining emptiness and form. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent Chris. Meditation practice seems like the most direct and sustainable means of staying connected to vast openness of possibility you describe. Do you have a regular meditation practice? If so, curious what form that takes.
Hey Rick, I've experimented with many different practices over the years. Currently, I'm doing a combination of Loch Kelly's Effortless Mindfulness work and some more traditional Vajrayana practices such as deity yoga. If you haven't checked out Loch's work yet, I think you might enjoy it. I wrote a curated intro to it during Write of Passage: https://chriscordry.com/articles/effortless-mindfulness-beginners-loch-kelly
I remember reading this article back when you published it. Especially appreciated the idea of "waking out" as an expanse toward relationship as a fundamental means of softening personal edges.
"Softening personal edges" is a great description of what that feels like in practice.