Exhibitions of Zero, Flowers of Space

Here's another recent blog, which I'd like to contribute to the TSK Expressions board…

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The following video, a visualization of the beauty and artfulness of math, resonates with me also as a sort of meditation on space, time, and knowledge.  As you watch it, I invite you not merely to observe it from a distance, but to allow it to interact with you – to find its traces in your own being and knowing. 

Mathematics and art

What remains in play, vital, undecided, around the positions we take?  How are our positions also openings, exhibitions of zero?

What boundaries trace out the shape of your being – of your body and mind, self and relationships?  Are those boundaries any different from the bounty of space?  What might they yield, if you cease taking them as given and, instead, 'zero in' in ever-deepening circles of intimacy?

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The statement, to 'zero in' in ever-deepening circles of intimacy, brings to mind coming in contact with Brilliancy. As subtle detail play with the senses and a realization of a vast empty space that is behind it all comes into the minds eye the tigles glimmer indeed.

“the drops and winds are features of the human energy system and have varying degrees of subtlety.” 

The no-thing pool becomes filled with bio-luminescent ethereal wind that cascades outward and inward to fullfilment. And in this fullfilment the creativity of the “will” to be an exhibition, to express intelligence, becomes unbound from prohibitions but yet still bound by certain laws, mathematics, and physical limitations.
 
It's in the flowering, blooming nature of the mind that brings to life the subtlety. As our appreciation grows we tend to respect our fellow humans more, for it would be a shame to spoil there own individual exhibition too and dry up the soil on the “dynamic ground.”

So we keep exploring and discovering the TSK.

A Zen poem:

I came from brilliancy
and return to
brilliancy.
What is this?

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Hi, Jordan,

I appreciate the Diamond Approach references in your post.  Your post also reminds me of a passage from Visions of Knowledge, one of the books in the TSK series, so I will quote it here…

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“As the vehicle for inquiry, the human mind – as we have specified it – is free to inquire into the light of knowledge. It does so by inquiring into mind, initiating an ongoing interplay that fosters awakened awareness. Reading knowlege out of knowledge, the unfolding inquiry moves closer to the original, open nature of mind. As the subtleties of presence expand, presence leads to aliveness, and aliveness deepens into livelihood.

In this ongoing and embodied process, mind discovers its own lightness: a readiness for insight that is free from the gravity of thinking, a luminosity that dispels all darkness. If we imagine the mind as a solid, we could say that the edge of mind becomes increasingly delicate, increasingly more refined. Mind opens to knowledge as the petals of a flower unfurl from the bud into the blossom. Then there comes a second opening, a deepening lightness that opens into space, revealing ultimately the heart of space – a realm of ethereal beauty.

The space we are familiar with – between perceiver and perceived, thinker and thought – is devoid of knowledge. The space a flower opens in its blossoming challenges this knowledge void by fusing beauty with space. The opening of mind to deepening lightness, however, evokes another dimension of space entirely. Here appearance itself opens into lightness, and opening lightness reveals the Body of Knowledge.

Each object of perception exhibits a solidity that can open in this way. We sense this possibility whenever seeing becomes less tightly bound to the identity of what is seen. We touch it when we learn to open to space the invisible aura of pain or fear, dullness or confusion that radiates out from the claimed intransigence of what is seen or known.

Ordinary consciousness, bound to conventional knowledge, is closed to such spaces. Tracing its tracings, we find ourselves lost in the thick fog of emotions and binding images, in fields and pressures and restrainings. We are weighed down by previous accumulations of emotionality that breed frustration and restriction. Outwardly stable, we grow inwardly frantic, like an animal with its foot caught in a snare. But these ways of being are not final. They do not reflect accurately the light of knowledge or the availability of space infused with knowledgeability.

Opening newly to space and time, lightness knowledge allows for the transmission of intimacy. Exploring this potentiality, we open a new chapter in the history of the mind. Alive to its own lightness, mind itself can become the vehicle for transforming the structures of human knowledge” (Tarthang Tulku, Visions of Knowledge).

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i liked the zen poem…short and sweet…and positively brilliant…LOL

thnx jordan…

bruce, what you just posted was wonder-filled…haven't read that book yet…it should be here tomorrow…but it described exactly what i have been experiencing…

reading knowledge out of knowledge…what is not knowledge?  LOL…

a readiness for insight…i feel like a little flower opening up…haha…

thnx for posting this bruce and giving me a little taste of my next book to read…

happy return to work…*

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Star, thanks for the TSK bits for my mind to turn and churn in the vehicle of a frontal lobe and more. And it seems that in the space between, that is, the interludes of return visions to the passage of time that bring a presence of being vibrant and having an intelligence to perceive TSK.

The question comes to fruition, can zero be an exhibition? Does the interludes of the pauses of the mind demonstrate a zero/no-thing presence or is it a ignorance that has precluded the expression of knowledge.  A pool of water with no ripples just hangs out stagnant until moved upon. The subtle energy may even just be a reflection from the pool which is difficult to make out and see. Like was relayed, Tracing its tracings, we find ourselves lost in the thick fog of emotions and binding images, in fields and pressures and restrainings. There are disruptions in the exhibitions of zero and the flowering of the space between with distraction and remnant impulses that keep us from truly becoming aware of zero. Some of our periods of rest are really mere illusions of being restitute. I like what it says, They do not reflect accurately the light of knowledge or the availability of space infused with knowledgeability. Does a certain contact with zero precede knowledgeability?

Back to the pauses…We can know and appreciate the pauses and what they bring in our lives. For example, with the emphases in Japanese music, and even the music in the piece presented by Bruce, the time and periods with no notes become just as important as the notes themselves. In the spaces between the notes we saver and linger in the affects of the vibration, appreciating a tailing off of the tones, visual impulses, and the stirred tigles. A drifting away toward nothing, zero, emptiness, until something else bringz us back into the stimulatory remembering or distraction. 

With the practice of moving toward and understanding zero we become more familiar with the flowering of space and greater transmission of intimacy. 101010000101111010011001100010

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Hi Jordan…

i have found that knowledge is always available, in everything…but our very Being is so closed down, we cannot percieve it…

it's as if we have these dark glasses on clouding our very Being…all we need do is take these glasses off, and see in a more open way…not with our usual way of seeing and thinking, but with our very Being…which is open and compassionate and filled with creative potential…

i have often thought that the usual understanding of emptiness and nothing was misrepresentative of what our Being actually is…

emptiness that does not dance is not true emptiness…

i understand completely what you were saying about  the aspect of 'stagnant'…i have often heard others say that 'being' is boring…this has not been my experience at all…Being is vibrant and alive…it is our preconcieved notions or ideas that we have concerning it that restricts it…or at least that has been my experience…

much joy…glad we are friends now!  *

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Hi Starlight,

The friendly feeling is mutual…

I admit, I just jumped in blindly with my post  with the exhibition from the whims of Bruces post. Diamonds a blaze…Coming from really zero mind of TSK. But in my blindness there was still a vision for I have found a curiosity of commonality of Inquiry and it seems that TSK has a wonderful ethereal tone to drift away into present exploring of a triune. None the less the curiosity lingers in a remnant glow from the past on passage from Visions of Knowledge. I appreciate your lack of intransigence with regard to my original capacities. But then again in the spirit of TSk and opening the mind to new levels of lightness I have found that it evokes another dimension of space entirely. No boundry to come into the merging of the flowering of new intimate spaces. And a new TSK book on the way.

Warmly,
Jordan

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hey Jordan…your post made me LOL…

TSK…has a way of opening up what is already there…LOL

limits become knowledge, and portals to more opening…isn't it wondrous?  not having to use up all that energy to hold on to fixed positions? 

i still don't have my new books…i am thinking they might be in my mail box right now, or at least one of them…lol

but, the information available on Gaia has been keeping me busy…

are you going to be participating in the new series?  i am not registered but definitely plan on being involved…hope you will too…it'll be fun linking all our blogs together…and supporting one another and offering open encouragement…bruce just told me that it is going to investigate our 'Story.'..i am excited…

much joy jordan…always, star…

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Star,

My present time and space for opening up a new portal for a online class doesn't seem to fit with other spaces in my life. I would like to see if I could follow along and be involved some. My mind wants to gravitate toward that certain knowledgability that is suggested. Further, being engaged in a new form of inquiry is appealing, and would compliment my already active Diamond inquiry. Let me know what your level of involvement is and how I can tag along.

Jordan

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hey Jordan, i plan to do the readings and exercises, and then post blogs in accordance with that…the same way that Bruce and Davidu have been doing…

it has seemed a little foreign to me so far, as i am use to expressing myself through poetry, but i think that it will be beneficial for me to try and articulate from a more realistic point…i think that will tend to open up layers that have not yet been integrated…

we shall see…my entries may turn out to be reflections of a bubbling idiot…LOL…but i am willing to undress myself…and dance naked on my own light of day…maybe i should charge at the door…LOL…

always, star…