Continuity and emptiness / Dharma

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Dharma wrote:

> Let's put it this way. When you "let go... to face the emptiness of the

> moment," can you do that at the same time as you are working on a cable

> repair? (Knowing you, I won't be surprised if you say yes. )

 

))

 

I don't know Dharma if I can do it at the same time. It changes all the

time, each moment is new ))

 

But I can take the example of an experience that my work helped and

helps me explore, that of vertigo. It is fascinating to observe the body

express a pattern of fear when put in some situations of highs. From

personal observation, the sensation of vertigo comes when I remain

attached to the pattern of my feet touching the ground, when in fact

they are not touching the ground, but the last strung of a ladder

standing already on the roof of a house standing on an hill, etc...

 

Looking then at the horizon in front of me, and the small wire holding

my latter and the cable wire on which I may work on, I found out with

time, that the vertigo sensation would come if in my visual field I

would give more signification to the ground, than to the sky, or the

latter, or someone little moving down there, etc.. At one point all

objet in the visual field, all do become equal, and the vertigo goes

away.

 

But the Vertigo away, it becomes even more scarier, nothing is holding

you to life. There is no more fear of putting your foot on the next rung

on the ladder or directly on the ground 40', 50', 60' or 200' just next

to it in the visual field.

 

I guess Vertigo comes when one comes to realize that each little action

or movement carries all of life with it... And Vertigo comes to vanish

when there is no one left to realize that each little action or movement

carries all of life with it...

 

Antoine