Getting Ready

Contacting Care

Practice
Fully feel the shape and texture of your care for each object in your environment and convert that into the simple action of keep/discard and right placement.
Inquiry
What does my care feel like for this object? It may have any valence, any shape, any texture...

Fields of Care

Readings
Introduction; Introducing Some Vocabulary; The Search.
Kondo — Chapter 1.

Going somewhere, going nowhere

Readings
Realization of Completeness; The Space of Affordances in Unelaborated Umwelt.
Kondo — Books category.

Relaxing inertia and identity

Readings
Existential Inertia, Conceptuality, Identities, and Selves; The Happen of the Nature of States.
Kondo — Papers, then Komono.

Contact and responsiveness

Readings
The Simplest Exercise of Searchlessness; The Simplest Exercise of Responsiveness.
Kondo — Sentimental items.

Care into Action

Practice
Inventory all that you care about and identify in each case what it would mean to move that care into beneficent action.
Inquiry
What else do I care about?

Contacting your care

Readings
Responsiveness; Surrender to the Life Current.
Allen — Getting Things Done, Part 1.

Clarifying your care

Readings
At Play Among Lifeworlds; All Energy Maps Are True But Only Some Are Useful.
Allen — Part 2.

Reflecting on your care

Readings
The Art of Being; Dimensions of Energy.
Allen — Part 3.

Engaging from your care

Readings
The Incarnation of Fluid Nebulosity; Streaming Conductivity.
Allen — Ready for Anything, principles 30–52.

Being Responsive

Practice
Respond to every situation with a contribution that benefits the situation.
Inquiry
How can I contribute here?

Responsivity

Readings
Conductivity Responsiveness; Formless Arousal.
Madson — Improv Wisdom, Maxims 1–4.

The heart of responsivity

Readings
Another Simplest Exercise of Responsiveness; Pensées sur le cœur.

Responsivity as relationship

Readings
Interstitial 1; Realization of Completeness.
Madson — Maxims 5–9.

Responsive communication

Readings
Searchless Directionality; The Fields of Flux.
Madson — Maxims 10–13.

Your Integrity

Practice
Notice what you like and what you don't like and how you change your mind.
Inquiry
What is my aesthetic, as opposed to an aesthetic I am borrowing from others without owning?

Embracing your aesthetic

Readings
The Option Attitude as Kadag and Lhudrup; Clarification of Self via Inversion of Skies.
Di Marsico — Collected Works, Volume 1, opening selections.

Appreciating your aesthetic

Readings
The Resonant Wealth.
Di Marsico — selected dialogues from Volume 2.