{"id":559,"date":"2008-02-08T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2008\/02\/08\/week-3-tsk-ex-26-transcendence-of-pointings\/"},"modified":"2013-02-09T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T18:54:28","slug":"week-3-tsk-ex-26-transcendence-of-pointings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 &#8211; TSK Ex. 26 &#8211; Transcendence of Pointings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Cape May Point - Winter 1.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cape%20May%20Point%20-%20Winter%201.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nAs a result of further practice and some TSK class work, I&#8217;ve done some fine tuning to the way I&#8217;ve been observing time at different levels. I&#8217;ve returned to the activity of painting a watercolor to dive deeper into time to observe how the referential activity of back and forth &#8216;<em>pointings<\/em>&#8216; between past objects (memories), and future imaginings of how my painting will develop if <em>&#8216;I the self&#8217;<\/em> (a consolidating tendency) in this moving present, take certain actions with color, water, and brushstrokes on paper.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve previously described the post <a href=\"http:\/\/timespaceknowledge.socialgo.com\/magazine\/read\/painting-as-practice---transcendence-of-pointings_2.html\" title=\"http:\/\/timespaceknowledge.socialgo.com\/magazine\/read\/painting-as-practice---transcendence-of-pointings_2.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Painting as Practice &#8211; Transcendence of Pointings&#8221;<\/a>; as when the self gets out of the way and &#8216;<em>dissolves<\/em>&#8216; as process takes over, which by the dictionary would mean the self would <em>fade away gradually and disappear<\/em>, but on closer investigation, and after Jack questioning: <em>&#8220;&#8230;does the self perhaps go into hiding when it gets out of the way? Are there different levels of being aware of the flow of time?&#8221;<\/em> I see that the self doesn&#8217;t just disappear but does in a sense, get out of the way as a dominating influence. The self as a tendency to consolidate just seems to revert to a more subtle level, which does not subordinate objects and emphasize dominance of <em>position<\/em> or <em>distance<\/em>, even while knowing seems to differentiate and refer, and that from a first level time perspective appears to simply <em>&#8216;hide&#8217;<\/em>. It seems that from a second level time perspective the self may still work but in a non-dominating and more inclusive way, where linearity is not a groove that must be adhered to, and where the first level linear groove of past-present-future seems to open up.<\/p>\n<p>Diving deeper in meditation at a subtle, pre-sequencing, spaced-out level, that is without body-sense, if the glow of knowingness is experienced from a perspective, there is still <em>&#8216;self&#8217;<\/em> and <em>&#8216;knowing space&#8217;<\/em>, but when perspective is dropped there is just <em>being knowingness<\/em>. If the space is in front of me, I&#8217;ve taken a perspective on space, dropping the point of view seems to leave only knowing space-time.<\/p>\n<p>David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of further practice and some TSK class work, I&#8217;ve done some fine tuning to the way I&#8217;ve been observing time at different levels. 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