Sequencing

Life is logistics.  You can quote me on that.  Everything is about doing the right things in the right order.  What these things are, and how to order them, are the domain of culture.  And some cultures are better than others.  Cultures, like people, have memories.  They might be memories of pain and suffering.  They might be memories of pain and suffering and survival.  They might be memories of survival and transcendence.  They might be memories of joy and celebration, gratitude and love.

What I am feeling is that returning from where we are (well, where I am) to God, to joy and love, happens in the following order: 1) heal your brain; 2) release trauma and tension from your muscles; 3) release trauma and tension from your emotional/subtle body; 4) make connection with space at an experiential level; 5) make connection with Time at an experiential level; 6) make connection with what lies beyond both space and time.

Provisionally, and this is highly abstract, and I am still working it out, this would involve Neurofeedback to “turn off the fire alarm”, where that alarm is present; physical stretching, myofascial release and mindful movement; Kum Nye at the physical level; Kum Nye at the spatial level; Kum Nye Dancing; true meditation.  I believe that latter sequence is what was intended by Tarthang Tulku.

You might ask what it feels like to feel connected to Space.  Or Time.  It feels like “that”.  I have felt flashes of both.

Describe to me the odor of jasmine, such that I could differentiate it from the odor of a rose, without ever having smelled either.

We value much too little, in this culture, all the “things” which really aren’t things at all.

This is me realizing there are some things I can’t say.