TSK Exercise 16

Hi

Exercise 16 in TSK has probably been my favorite exercise–I think the title is TSK on Ordinary Level — maybe I’m wrong, I haven’t looked it up lately. This exerises always seems to surprise me when I do it; familiar shifts happen, but then new sensings emerge in unexpected ways. This morning was just such an example. I usually begin by referencing my own body as a way of seeing all objects as Space. Or allowing all objects to be Space. I start with what is close to home–my body–and then extend that to the immediate perceptual field around me. Then I expand that to include my imagination of all that is in the moment (i.e., the universe of matter). Once I feel that music is playing, I let it keep playing while I shift some attention to the Time side. I always love using this phrase as a cueing mechanism or mantra to evoke the Time dynamic “Time is like lightening, flickering and flashing without freezing anything into place.” Then I let the fireworks begin!

The subtle sense I had this morning was that when I heard a sound–it seemed to arise simulatenously with me as the one hearing it. What I mean by that is, rather than me sitting “here” — hearing a sound “over there” — there was simply the arising together of sound and hearer simultaneously. Then that perception seemed then to expand and include all motion, all movement, energies. As that amplified, I started to feel my body become more transluscent, as if I was shifting into Exercise 4 in the Space section. That translucence then seemed to feedback into Time more, as well as open up Space to where I sensed Space was including or allowing other seeming moments in the past and future to “sound out” their vibrations into the “present” Space so that the temporal boundaries between past-present-future became more elastic and permeable….this brought very pleasant feelings–like I was swooning or flying–

As that carried on, I wondered, know what or where is the Knowledge aspect? Then what flashed to me was a phrase from somewhere in the first TSK book (I haven’t searched it yet on CD), something along the lines of, the interplay of Space and Time is itself the brilliance of Knowledge (brilliance would be the keyword to search on)….as I recalled this passage, I felt the freshness of perception–in which seemed to be the Knowledge aspect–and heightened perception or sensitivity to experience beyond what my normal perception would normally allow…

That in turn, with the Time dynamic feeling energetic, found its way into activating the Embodiment of Knowledge Exercise–is it EX34? The Exercise where you feel the warm energy circulating in an orbit up the mid-line of the body, to third eye, over the head, occipital lobe behind head, down the spine, curving/arcing upwards with more warmth and sensations—as I that started to occur, the translucent aspect also was still clear….

But probably most important, was this sense of no-agent doing it—the Time aspect, of all appearances and movement happening on its own was imported into my own sense of being-heart beating, breathing, thinking, organs functioning, blood moving, the incredible complexity of bodily processes, feelings, sensations–this whole biological and psychological matrix was arising as Time “flickering without freezing anything in place.” And the same for the phenomena “outside” –the weather, the growth of plants, cars moving by, elements, the Earth and solar system, the movements of planets and galaxies–all happening perfectly without an agent….

Again, a quote comes to mind, I believe it is “Space and Time are not ‘out there’ seen by ‘you here’ — they simply are, without any need for an agent” — something to that effect.

Ron