Advanced Butterfly

[Tree Fitzpatrick]

Hi Anne.  Thanks for my birthday lunch yesterday!

As I indicated a few days ago, an act of exclusion does create disturbance
in the field.

Here is what I am sitting with this morning:  is disturbance in the field
something to be avoided?  Can disturbance in the field be avoided?

I love Anne's question:  what is the value of the impulse to exclude when it
arises in the field?

Off the top of my head (I'm late for another birthday date. . . ) the value
of the impulse to exclude is that it gives us an opportunity to become more
conscious. Each moment in OS (and in life) gives us additional opportunities
to become more conscious of what is really happening in the fields in which
we find ourselves.  Is there value in any impulse so long as we greet it in
open (conscious) space?



On 8/18/06, anne stadler <annestad at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi dear friends!
> I am getting in on the tail-end of Advanced Butterfly conversation, (I
> wasn't invited to participate at the beginning and just wandered in :)...so
> how about THAT!)  My comment is:  there are always butterfly activities and
> conversations.  They do NOT belong on the Marketplace board (which is the
> "formal" place everyone is invited to show up). And they are a welcome part
> of the whole.   And when I deliberately occupy a public space, and "exclude"
> particular people, I (and the others who are included) lose the benefits of
> open space (the opening to the unknown that the "stranger" provides), and my
> act of exclusion—as Tree points out-- creates disturbance in the field,
> which then presents opportunities for learning and transcendence.
>
> So my question, if opening space is what we are about,  what is the value
> of the impulse to exclude when it arises in the field?  And why cannot that
> question be raised in the Marketplace, at the time, so that the learning
> (which is showing itself to be available) happens?
>
> As a matter of fact, isn't the butterfly open to whomever/whatever comes
> along??  So is an exclusive activity REALLY advanced *butterflying*?
>
> Love and blessings, Anne
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Love rays,
Tree Fitzpatrick

. . . the great and incalculable grace of love, which says, with Augustine,
"I want you to be," without being able to give any particular reason for
such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation.  -- Hannah Arendt

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