In the final paragraph of this week’s reading is the statement: “In each moment, we can know with the records of the past and the possibilities of the future.” \u00c2\u00a0And on the top of Page 9 of Knowledge of Time and Space is the similar statement, “Perhaps the future gives the present form, allowing it to emerge, and the past gives it substance, like an object casting its shadow.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0This idea that both the past and the future infiltrate the present moment in their own ways, feels similar to the two-way flowing of knowledge in eknosis. \u00c2\u00a0Except eknosis is more mysterious than that. \u00c2\u00a0The image of an arrow arriving back at its source without deflection or reflection, and thereby circumnavigating the whole, \u00c2\u00a0questions the reality of separation and the claim of a self who knows that it resides at the center of experience. \u00c2\u00a0I wonder if it’s possible to view the self, residing in this present moment, in a comparable way. \u00c2\u00a0Or is there some truth to the sense that we are only alive in this present moment, more fundamental than the self’s belief \u00c2\u00a0that he\/she resides there. \u00c2\u00a0–Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the final paragraph of this week’s reading is the statement: “In each moment, we can know with the records of the past and the possibilities of the future.” \u00c2\u00a0And on the top of Page 9 of Knowledge of Time … Continue reading