Years ago I wrote a meditation book for children in which one of the exercises, Magic Meal, invited its readers to consider (among other things) that in eating a meal, they were actually and in fact, eating starlight.<\/p>\n
Considering temporal lineages as we are currently being invited to do, I allowed myself to focus on that during supper a few evenings ago. I was absolutely astonished as to the number of different temporal lineages which gathered together to create this phenomenon of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcme having supper.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 These lineages included the room, the furniture, the equipment, the implements, the food and the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcme\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 who was having supper (just one example – the cutlery – its metallic origins, who made it (their lineages), who transported it (their lineages), who sold it (their lineages)\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6etc\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I think you get the idea\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6It quickly turned into a multi dimensional kaleidoscope of timelines, all linking with each other and with an unseen network of pasts and futures.<\/p>\n
Today, on a country walk, at a certain moment, as I passed a cottage, a woman emerged from the door into her garden. I was aware of a moment of wondering in me about the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctemporal lineages\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in both of us which had led to my being right there at the moment she came out of her house.<\/p>\n
As for the first moment in time, as suggested by Rinpoche in next week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reading (DTS page 82). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true that such a hypothetical first moment has no past<\/em> lineage, but it leads in this example to a future lineage – i.e. to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 – this present moment. But how can it do that with no past imprint to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeed forward\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to now? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting too complicated here (or missing the point – or several points!)?<\/p>\n What I do increasingly feel about TSK investigations is that arriving at any kind of conclusive \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunderstanding\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcanswer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is absolutely not the point. The whole value of it is in the questioning. It feels like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbeing-gym\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (more than \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbrain gym\u00e2\u20ac\u2122). I wonder if anybody has done any research to see whether regular TSK-ers have developed more\/unusual neural pathways than those who have not engaged in TSK exercises. It certainly seems it has the capacity to evolve a new kind of human.<\/p>\n Caroline in England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years ago I wrote a meditation book for children in which one of the exercises, Magic Meal, invited its readers to consider (among other things) that in eating a meal, they were actually and in fact, eating starlight. Considering temporal … Continue reading