Open Invitation

TSK vision can naturally accommodate  every alternative, because it has no position to defend or point to make.

It is an open invitation to investigate, through careful analysis, the mechanism of the arising of appearances and the dynamic of their interaction.

For study purpose only, TSK can embrace three levels of time, space and knowledge. Each one unfolds to the next level when a more complete knowledge of the experience is presented. The point is to see what it might be like to sense that our experience can be different, and be open to challenge limiting structures.

With this in mind let´s bring the question: can we drop the commitment to linear time, grounded in the stories of the self? Can we challenge the limiting structure of this “first level” time? To investigate the temporal order we need to turn to the founding activity of establishing and knowing through which the ‘temporal order’ arises.

One approach could be: “Consciousness and physical objects, linear time and empty space all arising together, products of the founding momentum of this fundamental activity (establishing and knowing) … The temporal order of both the subjective and objective realms—and their interrelationship—could be understood as expressing the founding logos.” KTS 35 This way of looking shifts the emphasis away from subject and object, which are now seen as patternings presented by the logos

But, underneath this “second level” dynamic of time, we find the subject/bystander strengthening its dwelling in some persistent structure from moment to moment. So another question: can this structure be more complete, or in other words more open?

“Suppose that awareness were not owned by the ‘bystander’, and so were available ‘within’ experience, ‘as’ experience (no owner, no position, no temporal order) … Available at the outset as well as the outcome, such awareness could be understood as the expression of a deeper knowledge, alive with a vitality prior to distinctions and determinations.” KTS 313

Awareness, as expression of a deeper knowledge, would precede the positionings that characterize conventional space, and would remain available and free even when ‘caught’ in emotional constructs and perceptual frameworks.

“At this higher level, the act of knowing does not need to obey conventional structures: It need not traverse a distance, nor does it have to be ‘measured out’. The accommodation of space and dynamic of time unfold in knowledge to present an existence that is inevitably and inseparably our own. Knowing and Being enter into a partnership in which knowing and knower are the same. KTS 316

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