Within each point of time and space infinite depths are available. SDTS xix
How wonderful to apprehend that there is a vast realm in which Time, Space and Knowledge are at play and that everything I experience is just the surface of that vastness—a surface that arises as the dance of time and space and expresses a finer knowledge,  blowing like sea spray across my face.
An analogy: behold the ocean with sunlight sparkling off its constantly moving surface. This moving tapestry of water and sunlight is the face we experience of untold depths beneath.  Then if a humpback whale suddenly breaks through the surface before our astonished eyes, perhaps she will inhabit the air in a kind of time she brings with her: drops of sea water separating from her body and lingering in the sunlight, with nowhere else to go, while we the knower, also linger in the company of a deeper knowing that touches the depth of our own being.
–Michael
Michael
Thanks again for your evocative images. For me the seeing of the ordinary as
” sunlight sparkling off constantly moving surface…moving tapestry” is seeing through the eyes of Knowledge, with or without the humpback whale.
Much appreciation
Hayward
Such a lovely, inspired analogy, Michael … Time, she is singing through your fingers! And when John imagined the humpback whale, with her deep and alien “time,” breaching our ordinary reality (in my case, right now, an office cubicle), that hit me powerfully, too. Oh, how I would like to feel the bracing blast of sparkling sea water, to smell the wild scents of the fathomless deep, lurking just beneath the stapler, phone, coffee mug, and paperwork that currently surround me. What does it take to “crack open” the film of familiarity that covers these ordinary objects? When I attend to them carefully, each seems to bear its own alien time-space-knowledge, quite mysterious. What strange rhythm and resonance, what unfathomable patience, what fierce attention, keeps this mug here in the same spot, day after day, unchanged?
Beautiful and almost haunting in a kind of eternal way. If I imagine a humpback whale breaching ordinary reality right where I sit now, the intensity goes even further! Maybe that’s the level of possibility we could be facing.