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“To look at the emergent future, the one that actually takes place as distinct from future imaginations, we could start with simple sensory experience of the present, focusing at the edge of ‘now‘ just as it ‘moves’ into the future—the border where old gives way to new. In direct experience, new things are happening every moment. A sound, a motion, a sensation appears. Not everything is new, however: There is also a sense of continuity. Something stays the same and something changes, all in a very precise ratio.”
……’Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space,’ Tarthang Tulku, p. 87
I remember years ago working with a practice where we looked into Time… the ‘Now’, and the FUTURE INFINITIVE…
See the practice notes at the link…
FUTURE INFINITIVE
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David,
I also like this practice. It remembers me that article from Rinpoche reflecting about the hole of the donut.
“Everything that appears has as its center an invisible hole, like the hole of a donut. Turning the perception towards the edge, we put the hole in perspective, entering the hole, we discover how the appearance comes to be.
The hole in the center opens into the dimension of knowledge. Light flows through this opening, revealing the appearance as the expression of knowledge.”
If I stay at the edge, maybe I can reach unlimited openess