{"id":2709,"date":"2012-11-08T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:15:21","slug":"alreadynever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Already\/Never"},"content":{"rendered":"

How I enjoyed taking a “TSK walk” at work again!\u00c2\u00a0 Time was resonant for me on the walk, as I felt my contemplative steps around the building kicked up not only fallen leaves, but memories of many past such walks during previous TSK courses.\u00c2\u00a0 One way I felt the dimensionality of time play in my walk this afternoon was as a play of already\/never:\u00c2\u00a0 There was the trace of past walks limning this present circumambulation (the “already”), but while this walk was like<\/em> those other walks, it was also unique, a new bubble of experience that could not be reduced to any of those other times (the “never before”).\u00c2\u00a0 On the one hand, there is nothing particularly remarkable about this, but on the other, it was sort of a new experience to see that the sense of “already” is (by virtue of time’s dynamic) never what it seems — that in one way, there is no “already.”\u00c2\u00a0 I related this to Jack’s\/Rinpoche’s suggestion that moments may not have anything (directly, linearly) to do with other moments that “precede” them.\u00c2\u00a0 This moment appears whole, with a frothy surface of events breaking on the edge of “not yet,” and a depth that recedes back into an expanding cone of “what came before,” but in this view, the what came before can be seen as “just as new” as this arriving moment.<\/p>\n

How does this strike you?\u00c2\u00a0 How does time “play” for you today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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