Greetings all,
I’ve been hesitant to share my notes because I’m new to TSK and unsure if I’m on the right track. Only one way to find out. Today I decided to take a long walk to and around a nearby mountain lake. I thought the walk would be a good way to look at space in a non-content way and also to explore space in memory.Â
From my rural home, I can see great distances of plains and mountain ranges, so space in content is something that is natural to observe. As I walked, I realized I would have to dissolve that awareness in order to consider space in a non-content manner. (I am having a little bit of difficulty with this part of the exercise.) I often contemplate the volume and distance of the mountains to the east, west and north and how deceptive their sizes seem from a distance. I consider the way they are ripples on the earth and I am walking on the earth that pushed them toward the sky. But that is content?
Considering space within memory was more comfortable. As I walked, I felt clear, full (contented) and alert. The experience brought sensory and feelings memories of different times and places where I have experienced autumn. The memories didn’t feel like memories; they felt present, or I was present within those spaces in time. It didn’t feel like concentric or nested memories; it was like a calm collage of pleasant senses and feelings rather than a here and a there, or a then and a now. It was as if each memory were a puzzle piece placed together within one present and completed puzzle.
As I neared home, the path returned to granite stones and dirt, a pleasant sound of crunching with each step. Though such crunching walking is a sound I enjoy, it brought me back into the content of this glorious environment.
Thank you,
Erin
(I inadvertantly posted first under General Comments but was unsure how to delete from that page.)