Arthur in his Post on his experience with TSK Ex. 4 (I’m not going to try to paraphrase in English) calls attention to the discussion on p. 9-10 of TSK, which I think is very valuable. The text on p. 9 of TSK suggests that space has a relaxing character, and that this relaxed quality, in contrast to the “closed-minded” engagements with objects allows for the possibility that all objects can become “pleasing and accurate symbols” of reality (in addition to being themselves.
I can’t help comparing that to the question Lesley raises: How to bring TSK into everyday activities. One way to work with this is to regard the whole of experience, with all its multiple levels, as its own kind of Giant Body. We might call it “Giant Presence.” It would include inside and outside, and it would involve “nesting” all the elements that go to make up experience.
If any of you would like to try this, I’d be interested in how it goes.
Arthur also wonders whether the descriptions in the reading might not have the effect of setting preconditions on our experience, so that we cannot make our own creative discoveries. I think there are at least two answers to that. One is that there are really infinite possibilities to be creative in each moment; in fact, we already are. The other is that we always start from some kind of projection, whether it comes from the reading or from ordinary experience, or from some other source. That is a difficulty, but also an opportunity.
Jack