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TSK instructor and poet, Ken McKeon describes a personal experience… a sense of time suddenly opens revealing the past of the past, right now, in the face of an indeterminate, an open unknown and yet unfolding future… From time to time, I feel this ALL DIRECTIONS SIMULTANEOUS awareness… periodically in the morning where I sit… ‘this moving glimpse… but at any time really…
“Drawing on our own mind and senses and feelings, we can open the heart of space and enter the depth of time. What starts as an idea discloses its availability at the center of all that is. As the magnitude of the positive is amplified, the wholeness of experience steps into the light. Freely and easily, knowledge walks forward to greet us, inviting our participation with a gentle smile.â€
…. ‘Dynamics of Tine and Space’ by Tarthang Tulku, p.339
TODAY I FEEL MOMENTARY…
By Ken McKeon
Today I feel momentary, ghost like,
And this makes things new because
I’m usually sure of absences,
Knowing mostly what’s not here anymore,
But I am here today in this space before vanishing,
Deck and chair and me, various Japanese maples,
The slowly rounding earth, the autumn sky
I could really use a cup of strong coffee,
I need to wake up,
How are the Niners faring, the Bears, the Giants?
Where is the Sporting Green?
It’s long gone,
Where are my younger days, my older, my last, my days no more?
Might as well ask just where are the orange groves of Southern California.
Where are the phases of the moon?
All of everything’s caught up in the grand reality of change,
So much so, nothing finally obtains.
But there is a bubbling where I am,
Lips, throat, slurpy juices,
The fabricating airing that lungs are as they breathe,
The momentary fabrications of thought and feeling,
These are as rare as a cellular display of galaxies in a droplet of water
Drawn from an otherworldly underground stream,
Would that I had a tumbler full of that
Entering my throat right now,
And brimming there like this good coffee does,
Rich savory dark varied flavorful,
I’d mouth it, I’d relish it, I’d share it,
In breath, word, kiss,
Right now, right here, on this calm October day…
