Some people say that our life is like a blank canvas, and that it is up to us to transform it in a piece of art or not. So how can we create this master piece? Which tools do we have in our hands to do such extraordinaire task?
We have to discover a knowing that not follow the old ways, the ‘has been taught’ way of the predetermined automatic.
Investigating reality through TSK vision we find out that although the identities we assign to make sense of the world invite us to think in terms of substance, experience itself is marked by constant transformation. The difficulty in bringing transformation into play is linked to our use of names and concepts to label experience. Would there be movement free from labels?
Dynamics of Time and Space – DTS suggests that a fruitful approach is to view the reality of the whole in terms of meaning, shifting our focus from individual entities to the interactions among entities. Just as in a painting a single patch of color becomes meaningful only in relation to other patches of color placed on the canvas. So objects take on their identity and significant only in relation to everything else that appears.
Beyond all particular interactions, there is the field of these interactions. This field steadily communicates is own availability as field together with a structure and a patterning that characterizes field operations. DTS 16. The power that enables words and images to establish forms of our reality is the power of the communiqué. DTS 21
Our limitations lose their finality if they are simple expressions of the field communiqué. Once we see that the ongoing communiqué invariably presents the whole of time and space as the character of present reality, we can play with this reality however we wish. Our limits, as active expressions of knowledge, lead us to a knowledgeability that is unlimited. DTS 26
It is the quality of the field that allows its contents. So by playing with the quality we can transform its dynamics. By letting in more flexibility, more gentleness, more interest we can begin to work in our piece of art.
Open at this level, enjoying a new knowledgeability, we discover appearance as mystery: a boundary-less play in which we are free to participate. DTS 27
Hi Eliana,
I was glad to read in your post that Chapter 2 of DTS continues (after the assigned pages) to offer a more hopeful perspective, in which “our limitations lose their finality”. Reading only pages 16-22 left me feeling like the Lone Ranger hanging from Trigger’s reins over the cliff face. No rescue in sight.
Your post outlines effectively the limitations that are inherent in identities and our assumption that substantial entities stand behind them.
Meanwhile, I remain unsure whether the “Field Communique” is the same thing as the “Field” or just the way the “field” gets communicated in our lives. This reading in DTS exposes the absence of any reliable depth in the “field communique”–since it is only communicating its own conceptual structures–but is the field itself (and the feel of the field) a more reliable witness to a vastness which remains undisclosed by the field communique? — Michael
Michael,
A post by David can bring some light on this question:
what captures attention as being given (communicated) as part of a field communiqué, an awareness that will naturally lead you to focus on the field. This communiqué, this expression of knowledge that brings meaning to the experience is not made of words and concepts only, but also made of feelings that words cannot express.
https://cciforum.dreamhosters.com/?p=2167