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I am following Julie's comment, admitting that in reading others, I have had the hope that words will come. Still, they have not. As I offered in my comment to Julie's comment, I have read, re-read, contemplated. I have sat still inside the images, and I have waited for something to surface in response. There is something of the experience of reading that wants to turn and say, and of saying to give over what is enlivened having come to this Container. All that comes is that to 'enter' is to abide in Silence, Stillness, but this within is not self-ish; it is Luminous, Radiant Being, which is everywhere effusive. Thank you for ushering us into the Container of Presence. Thank you.
(Echoing Julie, the images are transcendent and transporting.)
Jenna, what you write here reminds me of something I read years ago in the Pratyabhijna-hrdayam, a Kashmir Shaivism text of 20 sutras. I will have to go back to see which sutra it was but it blew my mind wide open. I could not see life the same way again. Basically, It talked about the breath of the cosmos, of presence. On the inhalation we/life are breathed into universal presence. No form, no space, time or matter. Then on the exhalation we are breathed out into life with form, space, time and matter. As we live our lives this ongoing breathing is happening so fast and because our brains produce a sense of continuity we see this world and our lives as solid and continuous. When I first read this I paused and reread it, contemplated it, reread it again and again. I stayed with it and had a tangible experience of it. I sensed this is where possibility and potentiality live. That my body and being are completely fluid. That I am both held in grace and autonomous at the same time. Spirit and human. The body as a sacred gift with its three main centers, the mind, heart and belly. That I create my life, not as some new-age positivity, but my actions, thoughts, intentions matter. As well at the thoughts, intentions and actions of life around me. It shapes my future.
Thanks Jenna, I love what you wrote here and how you broke it down. The pictures are great, did you do them?
I enjoyed understanding this concept of Presence via containers. When I gave Presence my focus and gratefulness, I immediately could hear frequencies between my ears tuning like static. Your relationship with your guides is very powerful. I can appreciate how the torus is explained here.
Thank you so much, Cheniece! 🤗❤️🤗 I am doing my little happy boogie after reading about your experience with Presence. That really lights me up, thank you so much for sharing it!
I really appreciate this framework of presence. I love the word container, it means so much to me in my own spiritual journey. So much of what you have presented here about the container of Time is something I’ve been inviting and intuiting semi consciously. and thinking of presence as the Body, the structure for being and time, it lands really well.
Thank you, Alison! 🤗❤️ I love that you're a fellow container person! I love noticing all the ways we are held in containers and how the containers themselves are part of the relationship with it all. I've found that when I consciously tend the containers, life is more fulfilling than I'd ever hoped.
This week I found myself thinking “I don’t have a sense of time”. The sensation was like holding a pile of sand and having it fall through my fingers, escaping away from me, a “chasing after” to try to catch up.
It’s a different thing to phrase it as “I am longing for a deeper relationship with time. To move and flow within it, to dance together, instead of this ‘chasing after’ the falling sands of time.” When I am most grounded in myself I can feel the flow of life/time, how deep and ancient it is. I am often falling into the trap of swimming against the current of time, exhausting myself in the process.
It’s my birthday on Monday. Perfect time of year to be thinking about time and my relationship with it.
Wow, Jenna, thank you so much for sharing this! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🥳💕🥳💕 My experience with time has been so similar. Just always feeling like I was chasing it. Or then, ironically, having moments that I wanted to end but they seemed to stretch on forever. When I was able to connect to time as a living being, really be in relationship with it and talk to it, everything changed for me. I don't want to toss around the word "slave" willy nilly, but my feelings towards time were along those lines, feeling enslaved by it. Now I LOVE time and I love our relationship. Thank you again for commenting, it really means the world to me.
Jenna,
I am following Julie's comment, admitting that in reading others, I have had the hope that words will come. Still, they have not. As I offered in my comment to Julie's comment, I have read, re-read, contemplated. I have sat still inside the images, and I have waited for something to surface in response. There is something of the experience of reading that wants to turn and say, and of saying to give over what is enlivened having come to this Container. All that comes is that to 'enter' is to abide in Silence, Stillness, but this within is not self-ish; it is Luminous, Radiant Being, which is everywhere effusive. Thank you for ushering us into the Container of Presence. Thank you.
(Echoing Julie, the images are transcendent and transporting.)
With endless worlds of love,
Renée
Jenna, what you write here reminds me of something I read years ago in the Pratyabhijna-hrdayam, a Kashmir Shaivism text of 20 sutras. I will have to go back to see which sutra it was but it blew my mind wide open. I could not see life the same way again. Basically, It talked about the breath of the cosmos, of presence. On the inhalation we/life are breathed into universal presence. No form, no space, time or matter. Then on the exhalation we are breathed out into life with form, space, time and matter. As we live our lives this ongoing breathing is happening so fast and because our brains produce a sense of continuity we see this world and our lives as solid and continuous. When I first read this I paused and reread it, contemplated it, reread it again and again. I stayed with it and had a tangible experience of it. I sensed this is where possibility and potentiality live. That my body and being are completely fluid. That I am both held in grace and autonomous at the same time. Spirit and human. The body as a sacred gift with its three main centers, the mind, heart and belly. That I create my life, not as some new-age positivity, but my actions, thoughts, intentions matter. As well at the thoughts, intentions and actions of life around me. It shapes my future.
Thanks Jenna, I love what you wrote here and how you broke it down. The pictures are great, did you do them?
Julie,
This is gorgeous. I, too, have read, re-read, contemplated, read, contemplated Jenna's post. I echo you about these images as well.
I enjoyed understanding this concept of Presence via containers. When I gave Presence my focus and gratefulness, I immediately could hear frequencies between my ears tuning like static. Your relationship with your guides is very powerful. I can appreciate how the torus is explained here.
Thank you so much, Cheniece! 🤗❤️🤗 I am doing my little happy boogie after reading about your experience with Presence. That really lights me up, thank you so much for sharing it!
I really appreciate this framework of presence. I love the word container, it means so much to me in my own spiritual journey. So much of what you have presented here about the container of Time is something I’ve been inviting and intuiting semi consciously. and thinking of presence as the Body, the structure for being and time, it lands really well.
Thank you, Alison! 🤗❤️ I love that you're a fellow container person! I love noticing all the ways we are held in containers and how the containers themselves are part of the relationship with it all. I've found that when I consciously tend the containers, life is more fulfilling than I'd ever hoped.
YES!! consciously attending to the containers!! That is so powerful!
This week I found myself thinking “I don’t have a sense of time”. The sensation was like holding a pile of sand and having it fall through my fingers, escaping away from me, a “chasing after” to try to catch up.
It’s a different thing to phrase it as “I am longing for a deeper relationship with time. To move and flow within it, to dance together, instead of this ‘chasing after’ the falling sands of time.” When I am most grounded in myself I can feel the flow of life/time, how deep and ancient it is. I am often falling into the trap of swimming against the current of time, exhausting myself in the process.
It’s my birthday on Monday. Perfect time of year to be thinking about time and my relationship with it.
Wow, Jenna, thank you so much for sharing this! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🥳💕🥳💕 My experience with time has been so similar. Just always feeling like I was chasing it. Or then, ironically, having moments that I wanted to end but they seemed to stretch on forever. When I was able to connect to time as a living being, really be in relationship with it and talk to it, everything changed for me. I don't want to toss around the word "slave" willy nilly, but my feelings towards time were along those lines, feeling enslaved by it. Now I LOVE time and I love our relationship. Thank you again for commenting, it really means the world to me.