{"id":8248,"date":"2017-06-01T07:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2017-06-01T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:41:08","slug":"the-emergent-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8248","title":{"rendered":"The Emergent Future&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8249\" style=\"width: 777px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Old-and-New-by-Will-Shieh-Flickr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8249\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Old-and-New-by-Will-Shieh-Flickr.png\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of:  &#039;Old and New&#039; by Will Shieh - Flickr http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycnf8ry9 \" width=\"767\" height=\"515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Old-and-New-by-Will-Shieh-Flickr.png 767w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Old-and-New-by-Will-Shieh-Flickr-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of:  &#8216;Old and New&#8217; by Will Shieh &#8211; Flickr<br \/>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycnf8ry9<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;To look at the emergent future, the one that actually takes place as distinct from future imaginations, we could start with simple sensory experience of the present, focusing at the edge of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnow\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc just as it \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmoves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into the future\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe border where old gives way to new. In direct experience, new things are happening every moment. A sound, a motion, a sensation appears. Not everything is new, however: There is also a sense of continuity. Something stays the same and something changes, all in a very precise ratio.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<em>Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space<\/em>,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tarthang Tulku, p. 87<\/p>\n<p>I remember years ago working with a practice where we looked into Time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, and the FUTURE INFINITIVE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See the practice notes at the link&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>FUTURE INFINITIVE<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=990\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=990<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To look at the emergent future, the one that actually takes place as distinct from future imaginations, we could start with simple sensory experience of the present, focusing at the edge of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnow\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc just as it \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmoves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into the future\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,113,101,104,69],"tags":[128,129,104,69],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-expanding","category-future-time","category-presence","category-time","tag-aliveness","tag-future","tag-presence","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}