There is a print in front of my bed that I look everyday when I wake up. I have this picture for a long time, it communicates many things: open wings taking you to different places, sun shining and inviting opportunities, beautiful world hidden inside our usual sameness, etc.
TSK vision points that there is something fundamental about who we are, about the world and our place in it that we are failing to understand.
Staying with the familiar and the conventional we lose the opportunities to let knowledge enrich the mystery and magic of the living reality. “Knowledge is honored in its appearing without reduced to something less than the unknown.†DTS 158
I woke up the other day with my chest heavy. Some recent events and frustrated expectations let me a baggage I was failing to get rid of. The idea of linear time came to my mind; the idea that time is linear and that past is followed by the present that is followed by the future leading us to live a present caused by the past, and to handle the consequences in the future.
And then I reflected about how past, present and future work together in the current experience. The past pops up in memories, together with my heaviness, narrowing the possibilities of change in the future that I was seeing sad. I realized that they were not linearly presented but were all in my mind. And then, I looked the print in the wall. Time can be conducted differently. The frame of mind can be different. My mind became silent and the heaviness became lighter holding on this possibility.
Time transmits the knowledge of inner silence. A silent feedback values newly; takes us to the root. We need no longer play out the same patterns. Our old patterns, our old ways of being, are placed in question. If we wish—if that is our intention—we can change them freely. DTS 169
Print in my Bedroom
Eliana,
A nice summary of our shared studies, with your personal application in daily life, of how TSK can lighten heaviness aneopen possibilities for something fresh to come into our lives.
Michael