Marcia (welcome!), I’m glad you’re bringing in the power of Kum Nye, and especially in relation to time. It has always seemed to me that Kum Nye is easily connected to space, but the connection to time is at least as powerful. It’s interesting you mention “Being and Body.” Do you choose that instead of “Going without Going,” which is the TSK equivalent (The two are very close, but with subtle differences.)
“Giving each moment back to time” is very nice. Perhaps we can have a group poem:
“What shall I call the transition
from breathing out to breathing in?
Death?â€
Giving each moment back to time,
arisings are all time,
the glow of awareness,
a presence that is always now.
Jack
Why is it that poems express so much more beautifully the freshness of experience? Maybe because a poem is more connected to ‘waves’, breath and feelings? Putting the experience into words is fundamental (otherwise the insights will just vanish away) but tricky because it necessarily put us back into linear time (usual language unfolding as it does in subject, predicate, etc.) As Jack put before about words “DTS has some suggestions: words as symbols; listening to the sound of what is said instead of the meaning of what is said.” Poems being about sounds and rhythms of words, as well as their meaning, they express more of our total experience than the usual linear language. Nothing new about what I’m saying, the point is: how to express ourselves more truthfully to the insights TSK offers?
Anyway, I loved the poem, Jack!