A few years ago, in a TSK retreat given by Jack and Leslie, Leslie asked me: Why do you think that Rinpoche put Time into Time, Space and Knowledge? Why not only Space and Knowledge?<\/p>\n
I still like this question! I know that one way to describe reality in the Nyingma tradition is that it is made of the components emptiness and cognizance, sometimes pictured as a blue sky with a sun. Or put differently, Space and Knowledge. If these seem enough to understand reality traditionally, why Time?<\/p>\n
Doing a lot of time exercises and looking at the simple line diagrams, like the one in ex 14 of LOK to explain what a moment is, I wonder: Maybe Time is also Space, but a special space. Namely the allowing of Space to make\u00c2\u00a0a <\/span> space. Then you have a presentation. Something you can count and cumulate, use to build a<\/span> reality and by doing so a<\/span> self. Maybe Time is the allowing of space that there can be a self although at the same time there is none. Instead of: really , there is none.Without Time it might be difficult to have something funky, either in the musical or smelly connotation.<\/p>\n Still, using the exercises, Time opens<\/em> and expands<\/em>, and there are moments between<\/em> moment (all connotations that can also be used when talking of Space).<\/p>\n If you can describe a distance by how long something takes, for example the distance light travels in a year time, can you also describe a moment as a place by how much space it takes? And if the space expands and condenses in that place does the moment do the same? Can Space go by?<\/p>\n False Astronomy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few years ago, in a TSK retreat given by Jack and Leslie, Leslie asked me: Why do you think that Rinpoche put Time into Time, Space and Knowledge? Why not only Space and Knowledge? I still like this question! … Continue reading