One of the things I love most about TSK is the invitation to look where we never think to look; to take note of what we commonly ‘over’look. Reading Jack’s Orientation for Week 5 this morning; focusing on “the immediacy of presence, [in which] a single thought, a single connection, a single unexpected phrase or turn of inquiry may reveal a new knowledge and a different timing.†In the space of turning to pick up my tea cup, drink from it, and return to my original position a vista opened before my eyes for an instant, breaking up and through a preoccupying worry that had been loitering at the back of my mind. By the time I had resumed my original posture, everything was rearranged. Trying to find an image to describe it to you – it was as if a folded cloth had been shaken out in front of me and a shower of tiny jewels which had been hidden in its pleats spangled into the room.
Caroline
Caroline,
Does this work with a cup of coffee? Or does it have to be tea? I love that image of shaking a cloth and a shower of jewels spangles into the room. It’s a lovely image in and of itself, but also a beautiful illustration of how a single turn toward the infinite can be made from anywhere and any time. –Michael
Michael: I think champagne would be the drink of choice! Caroline
Hi Caroline,
Your description caught that moment as if in crystal, I could discern facets of it reflected in my own experience…the break in focus, a return to focus, but not to the moment that had already gone, the rearainging of time continuing. Well done. :-)