It almost felt like the question for this week’s walkabout was a trick question! TSK is tricky like that. In looking to take each moment as a whole, complete in itself, without reference to past or future moments, and in looking to let go of each moment in favor of the next, I first have to experience ‘in moments.’ But I don’t know what a moment is, how long it lasts, etc; any time I identify a ‘moment,’ it seems I have made some sort of artificial and rather arbitrary distinction or bracketing or slice. In other words, in order to experience moments in a particular way, it seems like I have to impose a moment-filter on my experience — which otherwise seems open, dynamic, nonlinear, without clear boundaries. At least for today(!), in doing this exercise, what it took for me to experience a sense of ‘already-whole-and-perfect-ness’ was just to not bother to invoke momentariness — to leave that particular filter on the shelf.
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A nice observation, Bruce.
I guess this practice is more like an Escher painting than a “Find Waldo” puzzle. Not so much to find a particular pattern in the field but to notice that the field is pushing us toward a premature resolution–at which point we would stop enjoying our stroll through undelineated wholeness?