Reflecting on the practice presented on SDTS Page 82, about the different feels of remembered past experiences and of imaginings that never happened, the ration of “16” came to mind.<\/p>\n
Perhaps an imagined image that leads nowhere is like the zero point of “I am here”.\u00c2\u00a0 An image arises and then sinks back down into undifferentiated mind stuff which is always moving and stirring like the undulating face of the sea.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn’t feel like a memory because it hasn’t reached out and doesn’t come into relationship with any other point in time or space.<\/p>\n
In contrast, when we remember something from our past, we are bringing back into mind an action that had vision and intention behind it and probably feedback stirred up by it.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if we are remembering a moment of embarrassment or regret at a missed opportunity, there is still the sense that our embodied being was once trying to do something and\u00c2\u00a0 that this attempt stirred up a reaction. Whereas, locked inside our own mind, imaginings feel like seeds that are never planted and so have never sprouted; they just lie in the seed packet, unrelated to earth, rain, and sunlight.<\/p>\n
Perhaps a momentary imagining is like a vanishing present moment of linear time.\u00c2\u00a0 It is only when several times are brought into relationship with each other that\u00c2\u00a0 we can begin to notice that time is already dancing.<\/p>\n
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