Interstitial Final + 1

Some bon mots to clear the palate

The “poison” in the three poisons is actually singular: compulsion. Without compulsion, emphasizing, de-emphasizing, and setting aside are valuable possibilities.

The infinitesimal root of contraction in experience is trying to fix meaning, instead of allowing it to arise and dissolve of its own accord.

Flow is a state of full participation in interaction conditionally facilitated by moving towards competence. That same participation is available with no movement towards competence: when you can’t find your car in the parking lot, have an itchy crotch, are uninterested in a lecture.

Responsiveness includes both tempo and presence to context. Our lives are appropriately filled with fixed patterns as part of responsiveness in tempo. There is a meta-responsiveness which is the real-time trade-off of tempo vs. presence to context.

When conceptuality relaxes: The visual field may relax into color-field-without-objects, as in disorientation on waking up. The meaning field may relax into feeling-tone-field-without-narratives-or-labels, as in vague hunches and the sensation of a thought-yet-to-arrive.

When emotions, thought, tendencies, desires are freed from compulsion, they can act as welcome and useful illumination, shining light on what is happening and suggesting possibilities without determining action.

There is no “true self” but there is a false self. Selfing is a dynamic equilibrium of continually precipitating self out of and dissolving self into the water of being. False self, or self-contraction, is an attempt to stabilize particular self-precipitates.

“Self”, like “here”, is an indexical. “The self” exists in the same way “the here” exists, as something with no necessary continuity between any two moments, and whose scope can change enormously moment-to-moment.

Searchless spontaneity wells up from feeling without limitation. In intimacy with everything, free from all compulsion, phenomena arise as improv partners.

The union of letting go and embracing: Every moment is first “let go”, and then that moment that has been let go of is fully embraced.

Deflationary “enlightenment” is the dissolution of an existential search because it has become completely clear that there is nothing to find. “This” (whatever is happening) is “it” (the always new final existential destination), another moment that can be let go of and embraced.