{"id":6030,"date":"2014-08-02T22:33:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T05:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2014-08-14T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:13:29","slug":"critique-of-the-walkabout-exercise-week-3-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6030","title":{"rendered":"Critique of the Walkabout Exercise? (Week 3 Question)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>On 204, Rinpoche tells us that we will have to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153transcend meanings, speculations, and visions\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven those which are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctimed-out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Does this reminder amount to a critique of the method we have been working with in the walkabout (which you should continue): viewing positions as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcacts of positioning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122? Are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcacts of positioning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the same as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctimed-out meanings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a way, yes, it appears he is challenging the &#8216;ultimacy&#8217; of &#8216;acts of positioning&#8217; (as timed-out meanings), but I do not read this as a challenge to the approach we are taking in class.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it seems the approach we are taking in class is designed to help us better appreciate second-level time, and Rinpoche indicates that it is only by <em>working through<\/em> second-level insights that we can transcend them.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I take the exercises for this week as invitations to do such exploration and possible working through.\u00c2\u00a0 And isn&#8217;t to see a timed-out meaning as timed-out meaning already in some sense a transcendence of it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 204, Rinpoche tells us that we will have to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153transcend meanings, speculations, and visions\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven those which are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctimed-out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Does this reminder amount to a critique of the method we have been working with in the walkabout (which you should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6030\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,107,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-process","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}