Jack asked me to comment on what I had noticed re: time and space in our sensing exercise yesterday. I went blank when he asked me, and said I needed ‘to think about it.’ Here are my jottings:<\/p>\n
Attending to arising experience and noticing how time and space feature in the process of sensing: sounds traverse time<\/em>; some communicate time<\/em> as they unravel. Others communicate space<\/em>. Focusing lightly, but determinedly, like this – time and space both seem to expand<\/em> – a sense of constriction in both falls away. Some sounds demonstrate rhythm<\/em>, eg in the cawing of a crow, the whoosh of a bicycle passing beneath my window, footsteps on the street outside. There are rhythms within my attention<\/em>: sometimes it’s muffled and dull, sometimes crisp; sometimes it’s concertinaed, sometimes spacious.<\/p>\n As for knowledge: resting in a receiving awareness like this reveals a background sense of knowing-ness<\/em> which feels alert, rich and fertile and which could, at any moment, manifest as Knowledge – a bit like a miraculous rabbit out of a conjurer’s hat. In other words, Knowledge seems to be inherent<\/em> in this sense of knowingness<\/em>. I have noticed that there is a fashionable resistance to this idea in the world. I’d love to have your responses to this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Am I going too far if I say that this ‘resistance’ seems to be connected to a profound, unconscious addiction to misery, powerlessness, ignorance and failure which is subtly transmitted from generation to generation?<\/p>\n Caroline in England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jack asked me to comment on what I had noticed re: time and space in our sensing exercise yesterday. I went blank when he asked me, and said I needed ‘to think about it.’ Here are my jottings: Continue reading