Cookies Milk and Consciousness Dipping 12-18-2018

Consciousness dips down into the mind and opens to experience.

If consciousness dips in too deeply into the mind it gets lost in experience and forgets it is consciousness.

Like eating cookies and milk you can dip the cookie just enough to intertwine with the milk and be lifted back out. But if it gets too deeply saturated it falls off and gets lost.

Game Ingredients: Chocolate cookie or Oreo cookie, one glass of cold milk

Take a chocolate or Oreo cookie and dip the bottom half it in the milk so that the cookie cookiesbecomes so saturated with the milk that it is almost falling off and staying in the milk.   There are differing amounts of milk saturation by the cookie. And with different amounts of saturation the taste and texture vary. If you cannot get the whole amount of saturated cookie into your mouth before it falls off even though it was able to be lifted out of the milk it counts as having been lost to the milk.

Let consciousness be the cookie and the milk be physical reality. The dipping and saturation becomes your experience .   The more saturation the deeper the experience. However if there is too much saturation, too deep in experience you can fall off  like the cookie and get lost or dissolved in physical reality looking for one experience after another forgetting that you are really a cookie (consciousness).

The game or a game that most of us played was trying to obtain the fullest saturation of the cookie with milk and to be able to lift it up into our mouth fully intact. To focus our full awareness and attention to the dipping, holding, lifting and getting the fullest saturation of the cookie into our mouth. Maybe the focus of attention made the cookie taste better.

Every moment is an opportunity to be aware of the interplay of consciousness and experience. Every experience can be fully saturated between consciousness and physical reality. Every moment can be filled  and saturated with mindfulness.

When an experience is new the interplay of experience and mindfulness is more automatic. As a task becomes repetitive , like a toll booth collector, it can lose mindfulness of the actual toll collection and become boring. Bringing in the groceries from the garage almost always seems to be annoying.  However, if I imagine that I have been eating in restaurants for a month and I am finally able to bring in the groceries to cook my own food the task would be done with mindfulness, anticipation and joy. This can be done for any experience and allow mindfulness to grow to saturation.

There is an interplay of distractions (thoughts other than what is being done in this moment) and getting lost in experience itself.  I imagine that even getting fully mindful of experience like watching the flight of a golf ball that appears to be going through the air and right towards the flag stick on the green pulls me into experience and I become so saturated that I fall off and forget I am a cookie of consciousness.  I then get lost in the desire for a repetition of that experience and with a loss of conscious awareness I lose some of my focus on the swing of the golf club and my next shot is not on target. So if I can dip into the experience to become fully saturated but not over saturated to the point of falling off and getting lost I can regroup back into consciousness and maintain awareness for the next swing.

An almost traffic accident scares us into over-saturation of experience and we fall off and for a time, lose connection to consciousness and become disoriented and lost. If any type of experience (good or bad) happens repeatedly we can float around in a perpetual state of unconsciousness.

Meditation can allow us to regroup and regain an awareness of the seer rather than just the seen.

Often we get lost in the maze of experience, one experience after the other going around and around as if in a maze without awareness that it is a maze. Consciousness (the Seer) is a view from above; like looking down at the hedge that makes up the maze that from the experience (ground level) cannot be seen as a hedge (maze). Then you go up and back into each alley of the maze (separate experiences that link one after the other like the holes on a golf course) not realizing that there is a view looking down that sees the entire hedge and its alleys . It seems to be all alleys of experience when the true reality (consciousness) is always  there at a 90 degree angle to everything. I imagine my concept of true reality is just another level of maze and there is a truer reality all the way down (or up) supporting or suspending “me” somewhere in the middle

Going through and in the maze of experiences and up and down the alleys can be called mazing.

Grace is being aware of the consciousness from the 90 degree viewpoint.

Seeing the maze view with consciousness could then be ——-    a mazing grace.

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