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Thread LOKx05: Disowning Tension
Love of Knowledge, Exercise 5: Disowning Tension, p. 41
The temporality associated with tension and fixed patterns
(see Exercise 3) depends on a sense of the self who organizes,
interprets, and 'owns' the situation. To experiment with this
orientation, focus instead on the self as part of the 'given'
content of the situation. Watch loosely but alertly, using this
expanded view to shift awareness from the content of the situation.
You may touch more directly the energy of time.
entry 0001: [Steve Randall, January 1, 1994]
Hiking down from Cathedral Rock in Sedona I was scared. It
was quickly getting dark, and I had trouble finding a safe way
down. I think I could have gotten a better sense of direction
if I had relaxed by focussing on the self as given.
entry 0002: It's clear that time can show up as the self's tension, desire, or repulsion about various objects and situations. When there's some awareness of this, it usually seems that the self owns the tension, rather than that time presents the energy or momentum. However, letting time be at the center, or seeing time in the foreground, brings an interesting change in perspective.
p. xv, SDTS: p. xv, SDTS: Conventional knowledge today focuses on the self: what the self needs, what it understands, what it is capable of. Suppose that we shift this focus . . . . When we place these three factors--space, time, and knowledge--at the center of our being, something quite remarkable happens. . . . If we know our own time more intimately, we can transform our living experience.
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