Is our reality as solid as we think it is? What does solid mean? This question reminds me a dream, a lucid dream I had a long time ago, but that is still present in my mind, in which I wanted to test the solidity, the realness of the dream, by jumping and feeling my feet hit the ground. And I was amazed to see that I could feel solidity in my dream.
But the solidity that the TSK vision refers is the absence of changes. The claim that reality is objective and substance is fixed can be challenged, because although the identities we assign to make sense of the world invite us to think in terms of substance, experience itself is markedly by constant transformation.
One approach of the realness of reality could be traced to be a meaningful whole, derived from the interactions of co-referring manifestations; the whole sustains the identity of each particular part, while each part in turn confirms the manifested whole.
Beyond all particular interactions and all possible communications, there is the field of these interactions, which itself has no substance. The field transmits itself forward through names and concepts that identify qualities that in turn referred back to entities. In this way, the realness of experience is affirmed.
But it is possible to play with the reality of what appears, invoking a remarkable magic. We can touch the nameless and the formless within appearance that make naming and giving possible. DTS 27
Some of our experience cannot be described by words or names, their realness are in living them fully. The description doesn´t match the experience: drinking a glass of fresh water after a long walk under a hot sun, or receiving a hug from a cherished person who was away for a long time or even making the best chocolate cake.
Space, time, and knowledge might be less structured in scope and operation than is usually imagined; indeed, it might be that they could operate in nonstandard, even ‘miraculous’ ways. KTS 183
I would like to comment the last phrase of the post:
Space, time, and knowledge might be less structured in scope and operation than is usually imagined; indeed, it might be that they could operate in nonstandard, even ‘miraculous’ ways. KTS 183
This has to do with a subtle and deep issue.
This phrase also reminds me some sayings of the books of Carlos Castaneda. For those who don´t know, he was a scholar who went to Mexico to study the Indians and eventually he become a disciple of an old shaman. His books are about his experience.
The old shaman Dom Juan said once to him that, when we are born, we become associated of the vision of the world of the people around us, and it works like a spell, we adopt this vision and take it for granted. Dom Juan also said that the vision he was teaching to Castaneda was not supposed to be the ultimate truth, it was just another vision, more open.
This makes me wonder about TSK vision, which is not ultimate; it just helps us to remove our blockages, our spell.
Perhaps this phrase of KTS 183 points that reality is much more open that we think, and this fact is at the same time scary and amazing.