The Point of Interaction

In my time, a fragrant flies by a sense which dangles outside of my nose. In my time, connection to meaning comes and goes; it slides down a pole, rides the waves and trollops down a path to home. Meaning is defined within context. It is the significance of a thing. In words, images, feeling, meaning can not be defined wholly without using past references. A thing that is meaningful, is full of meaning to one and/or many; yet, the pictures that are drawn are wide and far from one another. A memory that is full of meaning connects into a well as deep to China and is unexplainable to a witnessing gesture. When ‘ness’ is added to a word, it ensures a state of being. It becomes a noun, a thing in itself. An embodiment of the thing.

Meaningfulness is the state of being full of meaning. Meaningfulness resides in the lower regions of the well of being. It is a butterfly wrapping it’s wings around the wind as it flies, softly embracing the thing and letting it go. It penetrates the heart, slowing time with it’s ripples.

One must interact with the thing in order to experience this state of being.

The process of interacting can be conscious or unconscious, take seconds or a lifetime. In slowing down this process, the first phase is acknowledgment. It’s like saying ‘hello’ or waking up to the thing: object or event. Your body can wake up to the event without your mind ever being notified. By saying ‘hello’, you are becoming aware of one aspect of the event or the whole event in itself. It requires a focus of attention from mind and/or body and/or spirit.

Once you’ve acknowledged the aspect or whole of event, you must invite it into your self for it to become meaningfulness. By focusing your full attention and opening, you are inviting the event inside your self. If you want to practice doing this consciously, breathe deeply as you focus on the external event. Breathe in the event on your inhale, breathe your self out on your exhale. This is the beginning of the dance, the mingling of inner and outer. Continue to breathe and focus on this dance, it will become innate and you will begin to feel the point of interaction: the particular point in between where your energy meets the event. This dance is essential in this process, stay with it as long as you can. You might begin to feel an expansiveness that begins in a center of being—a universal being—and expands outward. Continue to keep your full attention on the event while allowing the point of interaction to inform you.

At this point there is an inter-relating that emerges. A third thing or event surfaces. This new thing begins a life of it’s own. You can shape it, push it or pull it, bounce it up high to the sky; but it is a thing in itself. You can not erase it or shove it in a corner; however you can ignore it. And it will re-emerge whenever you engage with the initial event. It will want to speak with you, ask you what’s changed since the last encounter. If you want to practice this consciously, you can engage with it as a separate event and begin by saying hello, inviting it inside your self and dancing with it.

When the practice becomes forming the space in between inner and outer, everything, every moment is meaningful. Space is given to form the relationship at hand. Meaningfulness becomes intertwined with your being, as a state of being full of meaning. The life that begins in a center will inform the relative layers. A string is long and thin, is defined by it’s extensive lean-ness. White are walls, clouds and pants in a particular prescribed manner. Lost are the manners above all hunkered body parts. When I said you could become this other, I meant you might not want to.