Just putting my foot into the new waters of another TSK class. \u00c2\u00a0Two thoughts have been stimulated by the readings:<\/p>\n
1\/Existence is not guaranteed by appearance: what a radical insight. \u00c2\u00a0Yet familiar from daily life. \u00c2\u00a0How often have I “known” what someone else is thinking about me (perhaps a cool expression when around me) and then talking with them I discover their mood is about their own difficulties, and has nothing to do with me. \u00c2\u00a0If I make such fundamental mistakes about the characteristics of people and things, perhaps their very thingness can be called into quesion.<\/p>\n
2\/ When Jack travelled from California to New York, what happened to the space that allowed him to be embodied in California? \u00c2\u00a0Did it travel with him? \u00c2\u00a0I think it must have, or a microbe-sized piece of energy would have stepped off the plane. \u00c2\u00a0But what happened to the space that did remain in California and through which he passed to and fro while there? \u00c2\u00a0It was a not-Jack presence while he was occupying it. \u00c2\u00a0So it must have become a not-not-presence when he left. Therefore, canceling out the two negatives, a presence must remain. \u00c2\u00a0Please excuse this kindergarden inquiry into a great mystery. \u00c2\u00a0But as is sometimes said, “Everything I learned, I learned in kindergarden”.<\/p>\n
–Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just putting my foot into the new waters of another TSK class. \u00c2\u00a0Two thoughts have been stimulated by the readings: 1\/Existence is not guaranteed by appearance: what a radical insight. \u00c2\u00a0Yet familiar from daily life. \u00c2\u00a0How often have I “known” … Continue reading