Finished my second circling retreat at the Monastic Academy last week. I continue to be impressed with we-space practices, especially we-space retreats of which this is my third. /1
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Sitting in a circle with 'nothing to do' alongside 20-30 others for 6-8 hours a day turns out to be highly triggering. My experience is that it drops me back into the felt dynamics of my family system.
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This can be quite terrifying and challenging, but becomes tractable when combined with the bio-emotive framework and meditation. My experience was something like: 1. Pay attention to the somatic response, trying to perceive when emotional 'trigger' begins to emerge
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2. Continue to participate in the circle, which tends to amplify the trigger further, while adding more dimensionality to the underlying pattern 3. Leave the circle and use the bioemotive framework to process and release the underlying emotional wound (aka lots of crying) /4
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4. Come back in the circle with a greater sense of freedom and connection 5. Repeat This seems to be a fast track for cleaning up.
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Replying to @dthorson
This sounds like you guys are building a tantra? Any environment where people are interacting with each-other with meditative intent will basically turn into tantra. Surprising direction of development.
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Replying to @leashless @dthorson
I'm curious to know
@Meaningness's take on how this (Vinay's remark, in the context of Daniel's whole thread) connects with eg the Aro Buddhism > "Self-liberation means allowing emotional energy to be as it is." http://arobuddhism.org/community/an-uncommon-perspective.html …2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Everybody is a demon. If they aren't interacting with each other (zen) they can't eat each other. If they are interacting with each other, it'll be a slaughter as the samskaras detonate like bombs. You wind up with a ring master (chakraraja) with a whip and spear in his hand!
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I would say that we are all monsters and also all heroes. The work of tantra is to manifest both, skillfully and with ultimately benevolent intent. Drama along the way is inevitable. Part of the job of the vajra master is to orchestrate that. (Personally: no thanks)
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