Julie Smith wrote: > YES! Thanks for weaving it altogether, Michael. > > Julie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Herman <mher...@globalchicago.net> > To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:33 PM > Subject: Re: Reflections on Truth, Systems and Reality. > > > i agree with your back and forthness, meg. and agree with julie, too. i > think the > > resolution of the two views is that the back and forthness only exists > from the > > descended, embodied, dual place. upon making the crossing, even the split > between dual > > and non-dual experience dissappaers... until we slip back into our > limited/ing views. > > this for me is the pain sometimes experienced at the close of an open > space event, as > > our sense bigger body (community) slips from sight and we find ourselves > mostly (or > > just more) individual again. this is just what we were talking about in > that session > > on letting go of ost in vancouver. > > > > m > > > > > > > > Meg Salter wrote: > > > > > And yet the Buddhist recognition is that, ultimately, the sleeping and > > > awakened state are "non-dual". Not a choice of either-or, but both-and. > > > So in OS, and as a facilitator of OS, our work is to set the conditions, > > > hold the container with full presence to allow individuals to catapult > back > > > and forth - to find bridges from the sleeping to the awakened state - > and > > > back again. > > > After all, we are embodied (in-a-body) creatures, and our truth/reality > is
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