In the TSK vision, a new experiencer is called for, an experiencer transformed directly into light. We hear this call as mystical, but there is no mysticism in sunlight, and the light we are naming now is more accessible than that. It is light at its simplest and most direct. Each perception can be a ‘light bridge’. Through light we can reach the other side of time.
Please comment, not relying on theory or concepts, not recording what you know or suspect to be so.
Sitting calmly, classical music on the radio slowly building with rising staccato notes becoming faster than my heartbeat, then modulating and retreating, only to gather harmony and fuller orchestration to build momentum once again toward the inevitable crescendo…
Meanwhile my eyes notice the rolling field out beyond the overhanging maple limbs, as ears join in synesthetic awareness. Startled, as if by the uplifting sounds, burst hundreds of starlings from the waving hayfield a hundred feet away, they flitter and swirl, this way and that, a fluttering cloud in avian unison. Abruptly the orchestra rises, as the birds assemble, sounds and birds shift rushing directly at me, as my heart pounds, and I feel the energy inflating my senses, there is a kinesthetic balance while proprioceptors seem to contribute to subtle disorientation. There is no foundation for experience. Sound, vision and light, and the emotive, flutter directly into a bursting heart. An extraordinary lightness of being, an almost indescribable fullness of experience, a moment so clear as to be exquisite.
As I move on without grasping, through time the residue of this moment lingers, the clarity and fullness – music continues to play, birds have flown away, the field continues to roll on thermal breezes, and I am a tuning-fork still vibrating… not just the gatherer or relator of impressions now, for I am the light. I am ringing, lit up, raw…
David
I wanted to further comment on the utterly simple experience I described above, and how the structuring of linear time loosened to allow it.
The linearity of past-present-future, and cause and effect, shows up alongside of what we perceive. We can employ various models to inquire deeper into time; 1) the nuclear time model of perception prior to structuring, 2) the nested time model where past, present and future are imagined as nesting spheres sharing a nucleus as time radiates outward, 3) and the light model, a more open way of seeing time to experience full presence. Working with different models helps to loosen the grip of linearity in our experience to further open to the Body of Time.
So if linear time is a structure we impose, without that imposed structure, then what does the Body of Time mean?
The body of time is aliveness! It remains undisturbed by the way we structure or sculpt or form experience, the body of time is un-structured, something like the way space is ever allowing for objects to appear. Tarthang Tulku says: