Christy Lee-Engle on invitation

thank, chris, for this beautiful description of ‘a life of invitation’! maybe the space of ‘authentic presence’ exerts both great magnetism (drawing towards, inviting) and great radiance (pouring forth, offering) because it’s the space where ‘we’ are ‘not-two’– going through the doors that open we find our self in a place we’ve always known (you know this rumi verse?: “I have lived on the lip/of insanity, wanting to know reasons,/knocking on a door. It opens./I’ve been knocking from the inside!”) and even when we are not yet ‘in that same space or entering it,’ not yet resonant, it seems that being in proximity to someone who very much is (as i imagine Trungpa was; even the words he left behind have gravitational force) can tune us in, blow a sweetness under the door that makes us willing to fling it open. and while it does make sense to me that it’s not an exceptional capacity, that it’s available to all, and our birthright–that also it is still kind of extra-ordinary, and that’s why the way involves Practice(s), willingness, the discipline of paying attention.