An Incomplete Thought

There’s a sentence in this week’s reading (middle of Page 87), “The ever unfolding sequences move toward increasing dimensionalization: the multiple pronouncing of what has been recorded.”  This reminds me of another sentence, in the previous unit, where we studied how we lose touch with Space by projecting substance: (page 55) ” . . . subtance proliferates, and the transitional construction of multidimensional appearance gives way to a reality that has already been established.”  I wonder if we are now beginning to look at a parallel process in how we set up a “happeneded” world in time.  In both cases, we seem to project established images onto a realm that is thereby prevented from making itself known.  This recognition perhaps holds out some promice: since becoming aware of the tendency to project substance onto the openness of space has helped loosen that tendency, I can hope that by becoming aware of how I am investing my future with replicas of the past (the happeneded) I may become able to look differently for the fresh possibilities allowed by time.  –Michael

About Michael Gray

I first started studying TSK in the mid 1980's and have since attended a number of retreats and workshops at the Nyingma Institute, in both TSK and Buddhist themes. I participated in the life-changing Human Development Training Program in 1991, and upon returning to Albuquerque co-founded an organization, Friends in Time (with a friend who has Lou Gehrig's Disease), which continues to serve people with similiar disabilities. I contributed an essay to "A New Way of Being"--the last one in the book--in which I describe how learning to honor who I have been has broadened and deepened my openness to present experience. I live in New Mexico with my wife and two sons.
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1 Response to An Incomplete Thought

  1. David says:

    Really loved this Michael. I found your last sentence particularly powerful.
    Best,
    David

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