Expansion & Contraction (the subtlest experiential distinction)

Contraction and Expansion For any experience to exist phenomenological contraction must take place. A number of expressions/indicators of contraction and expansion are: pressure and release, heaviness and lightness, tightness and looseness, manifesting and vanishing, density and hollowness, or fabrication and de-fabrication. We may also say contracting instead of contraction, as understanding this as a process