{"id":8428,"date":"2019-08-09T20:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T03:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deconstructingyourself.com\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2024-07-04T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T23:28:43","slug":"the-fox-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deconstructingyourself.com\/the-fox-wedding.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fox Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Fox Wedding\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfXDMW6W3g0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guided meditation by Michael Taft, lasting approx one hour.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Begins with a long session of deep, belly breathing (about 15 min).<\/li><li>Then we contact vast, spacious awareness, going very deeply into it.<\/li><li>We then center awareness in the heart.<\/li><li>Then from here, at the source of awareness, we observe sensory phenomena coming into awareness.  The emphasis here is on the shocking, intense, spontaneous nature of experience. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Meditation, is followed (at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bfXDMW6W3g0&amp;t=3660s\">1:01:00<\/a>)  by a dharma talk centering around the metaphor (from Japanese  mythology) of &#8220;The Fox Wedding&#8221; (\u72d0\u306e\u5ac1\u5165\u308a).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Japanese mythology, the fox plays the role of the trickster,  somewhat similar to the role of the coyote in Native American tales.  Here, however, I&#8217;m not pointing to the trickster aspect of the fox, but  rather the paradoxical, uncanny, nebulous nature of experience. During  the sunshower, the rain falls as the sun shines; the bride sheds tears  on her wedding day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m using the mythology of the Fox Wedding as a metaphor for the naked perception of reality, which\u2014stripped of  concepts, symbols, and associations\u2014is uncanny, shocking, and  indescribably beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: In the previous videos, there has often been an issue with the sound quality. This has actually been composed of two separate problems that together have made the sound of the programs difficult. The first is the actual microphone\u2014it&#8217;s quality, placement, sound profile, and so forth. The second is the method of live streaming, which often has dropouts, distortion, crackles, and other gremlins. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In this video, we&#8217;ve finally overcome the second of these issues. In future videos, we&#8217;ll also be using a better microphone. 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