From Practice, Path, Goal

Below are the question for the breakout session dyads in Living the New Story Series 1, Session 6, and my responses.

Find 2 or 3 examples of times in your life when you’ve felt on fire (in the zone). What are the common elements or core components from which to distill a statement of purpose or calling for your life?

Examples in the zone
Meadow after sesshin
Drum at Sterling
First LSD
Giving interviews
Good love with M
Helping kid in library

Common elements/core components
Sense of spaciousness from melting away of limited identity

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Note: I found this on March 16, 2021:

…the goal of Ch’an practice, which is to replace mind as the identity-center with mind as consciousness emptied of all contents.

China Root by David Hinton. p. 38 of 161

an all-encompassing generative present that might be described as an origin-moment/place, a constant burgeoning forth in which the ten thousand things emerge from the generative source-tissue of existence: Absence burgeoning forth into Presence. And as we will see in many different ways, inhabiting this origin-moment/place is the abiding essence of Ch’an practice.

China Root by David Hinton. p. 22 of 161