From Emptiness To Openness The Receptive Space of Inclusionality

Twelve Openings

1a
Think of Nature as a continually transforming fluid flow with variable viscosity and without fixed edges

1b
as in the eddying mainstream of a river ..the swirling of atmospheric, oceanic and galactic currents ..the growth, death, decay and re-growth of forest trees ..the flocking and shoaling of birds, sheep and fish

2a
Recognise that you cant truly make sense of how this flow arises and evolves

2b
by pretending that space is restricted to the surface of a sphere or within a cubical box made up of lots of little cubical boxes containing

isolated objects moving against a pre-set time

frame

3a
Appreciate that although the flow can differentiate and integrate into what look like discrete parts and wholes

3b
these cannot, by themselves, reproduce the natural energy flow of place-time somewhere as a dynamic inclusion of everywhere

4a
Understand that what makes flow possible is the dynamic inclusion of immaterial space or darkness

4b
throughout and around the focal point of what would otherwise be a dimensionless, static point of mass or force without size or shape

5a
Realize that it makes sense to regard this space as openness or no-thingness, a vital receptive presence everywhere, not as emptiness absolute nothingness

5b
receptive space is like the solvent medium that loosens up a condensed blob of paint pigment so that it can spread out fluidly and diversify into

all kinds of expressions of energy flow

i.e. as varied dynamic configurations of darkness in light and light in darkness

6a
Acknowledge that the distinct, locally observable fluid configurations or natural flow-forms that we may speak of as things, subjects or objects

6b
cant actually be defined discretely, as if they were independent from one another or the common pool of receptive space that permeates

within, through and around them

7a
Accept that, so far as anyone can tell, receptive space is absolutely everywhere, i.e. limitless or nonlocal

7b
which is why Nature is infinite, a continually transforming fluid flow that cannot be localized completely anywhere
or divided up into independent little boxes that can only be moved by force imposed from an objective somewhere else

8a
Regard mental efforts to confine Nature to a single-centred whole complete with local parts

8b
as the source of a very partial and inverted worldview that unnaturally gives precedence to content over context local informational

Figure over infinite spatial Ground

and hence reduces natural quality to abstract quantity, whilst predisposing us to conflict with or subjugation by an imaginary opposing other beyond the limits of individual bodily boundaries

9a
Consider that since bodily boundaries are actually dynamic inclusions of space, not absolute limits between subjective insides and objective outsides

9b
there is no basis for opposition between one and/or other, life and/or death; instead each dynamically includes other

10a
Changing our perception of space from 'emptiness to openness' and accepting that we inhabit fluid boundaries transforms our way of relating to the world and one another.

10b
It removes the hard, imaginary dividing lines that bring opposition and conflict, and opens us up to the possibility of loving, creative, protective and compassionate relationship.

11a
We can love neighbourhood as self and so be liberated from the oppression of definitive systems of logic, mathematics, language, science, theology and governance

11b
that reinforce concrete objective limits to satisfy incompatible and unrealistic desires for absolute independence and security in an intrinsically

uncertain, continually evolving fluid flow

12a
Dont declare self independent from neighbourhood, because to do so is cancerous

12b
encouraging an incoherent and evolutionarily unsustainable culture of parasites, bullies and victims, defined as subjects and objects, winners

and losers, extant and extinct

Inclusionality
the understanding that matter cannot be isolated from space, and space is not emptiness, devoid of meaning, but openness, full of creative

influence.

Hence nature is a fluid continuum of mutually inclusive informational (responsive

resistance) and spatial (receptive openness) phases in which all form is flow-form, a dynamic configuration of everywhere in somewhere, with no fixed centre

Natural Inclusion
the co-creative, fluid-dynamic transformation of all through all in receptive spatial context, whereby self-identity arises within the context of,

not in isolation from natural neighbourhood

Individual self is not a groundless Figure, a domineering singularity isolated from space, but a transfigural expression of space through its unique focal point-influence

Natural Communion
the dynamic continuity of all Nature in receptive spatial context.

Note that whereas communion implies spatial continuity,

connectivity implies informational contiguity.

both communion and connectivity are vital to inclusionality, but they have distinctive meanings

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