Positions

It is possible to experience reality without taking a position about it, to be completely open about experience whether you are enjoying it or disliking it. If you look at yourself at this moment, objectively, you will see that you're taking a certain position within yourself about what I'm saying and what you are experiencing. You are judging: preferring or rejecting. It is possible to live without taking a position about your experience, without having continual commentaries on your experience. It is possible to perceive and experience without reaction, without the mind or self responding. But this can only happen through understanding what you do, understanding how you are constantly taking positions with respect to your experience. (Diamond Heart Book 2, pg 142)

Inquiry and positions

Our nature is positionless. Or, more accurately, reality always presents itself in positions – especially when we speak about it – but these positions and never fixed or rigid. Being’s dynamism is a process of positioning, but it’s a positioning that’s always fluid, always changing from one position to another. Being cannot be tied down in one position. We can take these positions as pointers, but not as a frame into which to fit our experience. Being is not an image to fulfill and not a goal to try to attain by pushing our experience in that direction. When you are inquiring, you want to be totally open to what is present without any preconceptions, without any preset ideas, without any particular orientation. (Spacecruiser Inquiry, pg 183)

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