The Future that Never Arrives

When something never arrives, we might call it a dream.  Yet, paradoxically perhaps, pinning our hopes on a future that is pressed into the service of our wants and fears, is the biggest dream of all.  How wonderful that this new six week session has finally (excuse me, I mean just in the right time) reached the future.  Well not the actual future, because the future never arrives,  but we have reached a moment in our inquiry into the meaning of Time in our lives, when we will be able to welcome the living force that is the mother of this very moment.

I love how succinctly this is expressed on page 93 or the reading for the first week of Jack’s new six-week TSK on-line class, starting up this Sunday:

“The future as located “up ahead”, projected forward along linear lines of force, is not the same as the future that will never ararive and thus never restrict.  It is in this “never arriving” of the future that the duynamic and power of time make themselves available.”

I’ve reflected on this insight with a thought experiment on David Filippone”s  TSK Inquiry blog: 

 http://timespaceknowledge.socialgo.com/magazine/read/the-future-arising-soon_105.html

Which I recommend to anyone interested in an oportunity to engage in year-round TSK discussion. –Michael

About Michael Gray

I first started studying TSK in the mid 1980's and have since attended a number of retreats and workshops at the Nyingma Institute, in both TSK and Buddhist themes. I participated in the life-changing Human Development Training Program in 1991, and upon returning to Albuquerque co-founded an organization, Friends in Time (with a friend who has Lou Gehrig's Disease), which continues to serve people with similiar disabilities. I contributed an essay to "A New Way of Being"--the last one in the book--in which I describe how learning to honor who I have been has broadened and deepened my openness to present experience. I live in New Mexico with my wife and two sons.
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