ReKINdled
THE ART OF CROSSING OVER
ReKINdled
Joy comes from fulfillment, but not from longing.
~Philemon to Carl Jung; The Red Book; Page 341
Similarly, the unconscious pits itself against the conscious, and it is the special tragedy of man that in order to win consciousness he is forced into dissociation with nature. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 38
"What is the human? . . .The myths in which our lives are embedded . . . are built deeply into character, often below awareness, so that they are essentially religious, matters of faith.'' --Gregory Bateson
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, “divine.”
--Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953)
Drawing forth the subtle resonances through which the ground of awakening can be discovered is what the great thirteenth-century kabbalistic master Isaac the Blind called “suckling.” It is based on a thirst for the nourishment of absolute meaning in the midst of the barrage of its relative projections. It coaxes and draws forth its nutrition by direct immersion in the onslaught of mind’s upheaval, accepting and rejecting nothing, always reaching further and deeper to recognize what is truly meaningful with single-pointed focus.
The suckling is accomplished through the flesh and blood of appearance, poised at the cusp of its emergence and dissolution. As poetic resonances flood the perceptual fields the ground of space sparkles with scintillating life, suffusing it with ungraspable beauty. Contemplation trains the mind to enter this boundless resource no matter what things appear to do or not do. It hangs with the spread of pure possibility, hiding within the parade of everyday details, displaying and consuming itself like the Ouroboros serpent swallowing its own tail.
--David Chaim Smith, "The Awakening Ground" (Inner Traditions 2016)
ReKINdled
Joy comes from fulfillment, but not from longing.
~Philemon to Carl Jung; The Red Book; Page 341
Similarly, the unconscious pits itself against the conscious, and it is the special tragedy of man that in order to win consciousness he is forced into dissociation with nature. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 38
"What is the human? . . .The myths in which our lives are embedded . . . are built deeply into character, often below awareness, so that they are essentially religious, matters of faith.'' --Gregory Bateson
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, “divine.”
--Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953)
Drawing forth the subtle resonances through which the ground of awakening can be discovered is what the great thirteenth-century kabbalistic master Isaac the Blind called “suckling.” It is based on a thirst for the nourishment of absolute meaning in the midst of the barrage of its relative projections. It coaxes and draws forth its nutrition by direct immersion in the onslaught of mind’s upheaval, accepting and rejecting nothing, always reaching further and deeper to recognize what is truly meaningful with single-pointed focus.
The suckling is accomplished through the flesh and blood of appearance, poised at the cusp of its emergence and dissolution. As poetic resonances flood the perceptual fields the ground of space sparkles with scintillating life, suffusing it with ungraspable beauty. Contemplation trains the mind to enter this boundless resource no matter what things appear to do or not do. It hangs with the spread of pure possibility, hiding within the parade of everyday details, displaying and consuming itself like the Ouroboros serpent swallowing its own tail.
--David Chaim Smith, "The Awakening Ground" (Inner Traditions 2016)
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