Just putting my foot into the new waters of another TSK class. Â Two thoughts have been stimulated by the readings:
1/Existence is not guaranteed by appearance: what a radical insight. Â Yet familiar from daily life. Â How often have I “known” what someone else is thinking about me (perhaps a cool expression when around me) and then talking with them I discover their mood is about their own difficulties, and has nothing to do with me. Â If I make such fundamental mistakes about the characteristics of people and things, perhaps their very thingness can be called into quesion.
2/ When Jack travelled from California to New York, what happened to the space that allowed him to be embodied in California? Â Did it travel with him? Â I think it must have, or a microbe-sized piece of energy would have stepped off the plane. Â But what happened to the space that did remain in California and through which he passed to and fro while there? Â It was a not-Jack presence while he was occupying it. Â So it must have become a not-not-presence when he left. Therefore, canceling out the two negatives, a presence must remain. Â Please excuse this kindergarden inquiry into a great mystery. Â But as is sometimes said, “Everything I learned, I learned in kindergarden”.
–Michael
