This is a response to David’s post.<\/p>\n
David, there’s a lot that’s of interest here, but I think you’ll have more people reading your posts if you can keep them shorter.<\/p>\n
I might rephrase the kinds of behavior “types” you discover in yourself as follows: 1) making sense; 2) responding to an underlying discontent; 3) appreciating the flow of experience (you mention thinking in particular, but surely there is enjoyment of other kinds of experiences also? Notice, for what it’s worth, that what you describe here is neutral, negative, and positive (though I suspect that making sense has an anxious component to it also).<\/p>\n
Given that division, I would especially associate the feeling of discontent with time, though it’s true they all do. What’s helpful, and you get into some, is to see how they all presuppose a different understanding of time, even if those different understandings are variants on past-present-future.<\/p>\n
Your image of the self as the bow of a boat, always trying to escape the force of the stream by taking a new position, is a good one. It’s as if the self wants to stop time.<\/p>\n
My own sense as I’ve been doing these exercises has a similar sense of movement and flow. “Diving into time” is like diving into the water, and at some point the taking of fixed positions has to cease. For this reason, the first take on how one could discover the past-present-future of each moment, which seems to involve a kind of logical cause-effect thinking, does not hold up very long under inquiry.<\/p>\n
Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a response to David’s post. David, there’s a lot that’s of interest here, but I think you’ll have more people reading your posts if you can keep them shorter. I might rephrase the kinds of behavior “types” you … Continue reading