{"id":7847,"date":"2016-09-09T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2016-09-10T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T17:35:52","slug":"shimmering-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7847","title":{"rendered":"Shimmering of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anne Lindberg, Inside Green, 2012, Egyptian cotton thread, staples, 24 x 18 x 6 ft.<\/p><\/div>\n

How can we understand the motion of time as ‘not going’?<\/p>\n

Some long-time TSK students have discussed how TSK might manifest in art. This might be one example\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Anne Lindberg created an onsite installation at the Akron Art Museum using taut cotton thread to draw lines that create a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshimmering<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 mass in space. Extending ideas the artist began exploring in drawings on mat board, scribing thousands of parallel lines using an architect\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bar, her installations are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153built with color and air, filament by filament, through space<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

For “inside green<\/em>,” the artist appreciates how her installation both fills and is confined by the space<\/em>. Lindberg conceived the accompanying drawings in tandem with her installation to enhance and complete her transformation of the gallery. Find out more about Intersections: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2beN3NT<\/a> (Thanks to EK O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Conner for sharing this.)<\/p>\n

In many of his TSK books Rinpoche has used the term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshimmering<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to describe Time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appearance, beside the photo of the sculpture shown, here are a couple of his uses of the term\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Knowledge appears through Space as beauty. We find the beauty of Great Space in the vastness of the blue sky, the unboundedness of space, the vivid colors of myriad rainbows, and a joy that wells forth within all interactions. Appearance presents itself as though clothed in the richest fabrics, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshimmering<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with unimagined colors, inviting with the smoothest caress. Music wells forth in the fullness of an ever-present silence, and form brings delight to vision through its perfect arising. Fragrances transport us to realms that never were, and the taste of a bliss that knows no limits melts into our being. Active within time, on time, and in time, we celebrate the all-providing mother, the all-knowing presentational immediacy of Great Space. KTS p.251<\/p>\n

The potential depth within experience is another source of knowledge that falls outside the conventional range of the knowable. In times of beauty, the world can appear like a celestial garden, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshimmering<\/strong>; with treasures awaiting discovery. In times of leisure, the abundance of the senses delights us. Nature and our own capacities bring us great pleasure. If our minds are active and our hearts open, we can discover the riches of joy, romance, fantasy, and love. Art, music, and ideas can reveal a realm in which the power of creativity expresses and ennobles inner knowledge. Spiritual insight can lead to a tranquility that nourishes and heals. Free from our usual concerns, we can know wholeness, fullness, and well-being that take us far beyond our usual ways of knowing. LOK p.69<\/p>\n

First level features, such as the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdrawing apart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or consolidating tendency of the self, referrings and pointings, and the ordinary experience of going from place to place, all depend on our \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknowing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 being deceived (convinced) by this subtle \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshimmering<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmotion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n

As more \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcknowingness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 investigates this \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmotion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on the second level of insight, it is still seen as a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgoing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, but in a much more open-ended way. Any facet or region of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmotion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is seen to move \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcforward\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbackward\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, and in all other directions simultaneously. And any one of these \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgoings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 can be seen to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgoing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 forward, backward, etc. . . . and any of these can in turn be seen in the same way. Solid things, places, and directed processes seen on the first level become appreciated\u00e2\u20ac\u201d-in their second-level \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 aspect\u00e2\u20ac\u201d-as being very fluid. This fluid quality is a central feature of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, which has been rendered more dry and friction-filled in order for us to play in a first-level way. <\/p>\n

When fully appreciated, Great Time is seen to be a kind of perfectly liquid, lubricious dimension\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit is quintessentially \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcslippery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. For this reason\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalthough there seems to be movement and separate places to move to on the first level, and still more open, fluid possibilities of movement on the second level\u00e2\u20ac\u201don the third level there is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgoing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and no separate places. It is as though all the friction in the world were removed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnothing can then walk away from anything else. So, from a third level view, an eternity of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcstraying\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 still leaves us very much \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcat home\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, intimately united.<\/em> TSK p.161-2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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