Hello everyone, and welcome to the 2d program for this year. The focus is linear time. Those of you who did the last course will find connections, since linear time is what supports subject and object, and the subject only finds its home in linear time.<\/p>\n
An apology in advance. I am about to start a 5 day retreat, so I won’t have access to the site during that time. So you’re on your own for the next few days, after this post.<\/p>\n
By way of general orientation, I want to emphasize that what matters in exploring time is the experience<\/em> of time. In fact, this is a general rule for TSK. The theories and explanations we may offer before or after the experience may be helpful, but they are just as likely to be distractions.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0What does it mean to experience time, anyway? If you set out to experience time, do you only experience the events that happen in time? This is a question to ask in this moment, and a question to take with you. Is it possible to connect with a flow or dynamic that is time, or the ‘timing’ of time? The answer you get\u00c2\u00a0one ‘time’ may not be the same as the answer you get the next ‘time’. Stay with it, and be open. Even the reference in the text to how we are ‘helpless’ in the face of time is an assumption that we would rather set aside at the outset. Can we be innocent about time?<\/p>\n The discussion in the text about “control and improvement orientation” seems to point to something basic about time. After all, we have things to do, places to get to, etc. That is what linear time is all about. Before we decide there is something more basic, we should ‘take the time’ to get familiar with this dimension of ordinary experience.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0Another really general question: What is our relation to time? Does time happen ‘to’ us? Are we happening ‘in’ time? Is the happening of our lives time? Is it us? In asking these questions, I do not of course expect that we want to arrive at answers. The asking is all.<\/p>\n Perhaps you can make up your own exercise. How would you tune in to time?<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0Well, I have more notes, but I think that’s enough. For exercises, do TSK Ex. 18-19. Note that these are more structured\u00c2\u00a0versions of the questions asked above, ways\u00c2\u00a0of ‘calling time into question’. See especially the comment on p. 175 about “a knowing brought by time.”<\/p>\n Especially with time, which is so intimately involved with who we are, it seems important to activate this inquiry on an ongoing basis. I’ll try to do the same over the next few days. Let’s compare.<\/p>\n Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, and welcome to the 2d program for this year. The focus is linear time. Those of you who did the last course will find connections, since linear time is what supports subject and object, and the subject only … Continue reading