What Draws us?

Q: What Draws me to TSK?

A: Initially and to this day it is the vision’s ability to penetrate the life I am living  (time), recognize my familiar body and world (space), and acknowledge my animating desire to survive, understand and grow (knowledge).  Nothing is imposed from outside, yet the offer is extended to step off the treadmill of compulsion in order to reclaim the future (time), to brush aside the curtains of substance and their crowding obscurations of a way beyond (space), and to espouse a knowledge that is not stamped, authenticated and approved for consumption by a mind already conditioned to receive it.  Rather we are offered a knowledge (known and unknown, both knowable), which is the very fabric from which knower and known alike  are woven.

This week’s DTS reading and Jack’s orientation page have stepped into the rain-forest where we live and offer a vision of how all that is familiar (whether we relate to it as time, space or knowledge), bursts forth from founding counterparts.  How wonderful to catch the scent of the rich, damp earth from which these ferns and flowering branches strike forth.  How wonderful to be reassured that a deeper strata of being is always there, and will likely respond in kind if we pause long enough to notice.

Indeed, what draws us (sometimes in charcoal,sometimes water colors, and sometimes in a melody that beckons us to the dance)?