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Thread TSKx16: Time, Space, and Knowledge on the Conventional Level
Time and Space, and Knowledge, Exercise 16, p. 108
Find a quiet place and sit in a relaxed fashion for a while. Let go of the heavy emphasis on here-there, inside-outside distinctions, and on the special status of your self as the 'doer' or 'observer'. Let all positions, forms, and surfaces be given as 'space'. Because space accommodates rather than blocks, you can perhaps feel yourself flowing or sinking into the object pole of experience without actually moving towards it. Let all units, quantities, meaning, delineations, motion, and action be given as time (but not coming from a past time). Time is like lightning--flickering and flashing, playfully presenting without freezing anything in place.
This play of space and time is not out there, seen by you here. It simply is, and carries a 'knowing' dimension with it. You do not have to assert yourself as the knower. Everything, including your own presence, is given as a 'knowing' that shows a particular way that the unbounded openness of space can be shaped and particularized by time.
If you want to locate Space, Time, and Knowledge in relation to the usual 'knowing self' picture, let all objects be 'space', the observing subject be 'knowledge', and the presentation of subject-object interaction be 'time'. There is nothing exhaustive about this one 'knowing'. Space and Time can carry innumerable 'knowings'. If you remain in touch with their openness and spontaneity, you may notice some of the others. These in turn reveal more of Space and Time which you can embrace. Simply relax your locatedness 'here', relax the locating 'out there', and relax 'happening', 'now', and 'existence'. To relax them it is only necessary to notice them and include them in the Space Time-Knowledge vision. By thus releasing all 'by-standers' and 'outside-standers', you may be open to more of what is 'here'.
Commentary 16
Exposing situations to this vision regroups the features of
experience--and finally makes possible their old grouping--in
a way that completely uproots the ego, without any repression
or struggle. Exercises which continue this regrouping and uprooting
in even more vigorous ways will be given later. However, Exercise
16 signals a very healthy shift in emphasis because it reasserts
the primacy of the vitalizing dimensions which make all appearance
possible, but which the ego tries to block out.
entry 0001: [Steve Randall, October 12, 1998] The commentary includes this passage: "There is nothing exhaustive about this one 'knowing'. Space and Time can carry innumerable 'knowings'. If you remain in touch with their openness and spontaneity, you may notice some of the others." The following passages from the different TSK books suggest other such 'knowings' and may be useful supplements to exercise 16's instructions:
LOK, p. ix: . The world we live in appears in space, unfolds in time, and makes itself available through knowledge.
LOK, p. xx-xxi: We are partners with space through physical existence, partners with time through actions, and partners with knowledge through awareness.
LOK, p. xxviii: Time, Space, and Knowledge are active components of our own being. Space is not only the empty container for objects, or the distance that separates one thing from another--it is the 'background' or even the 'substance' for everything that appears 'within' it. Time is not only the measure for what happens, but the active intensity within experience, which manifests equally in anxiety, fascination, or sharp awareness. Knowledge is not simply the accumulation of facts and methodologies, but a creative engaging that offers the potential for deep appreciation and flowing enjoyment.
LOK, p. xxxi: The exercises in Love of Knowledge evoke a more global knowing, a more active temporality, and a more accommodating space.
LOK, p. xxxix: When we activate knowledge, we find wonder
in the simple circumstance that our body is embodied in space,
our experience unfolds in time, and our mind expresses ever-expanding
'knowingness'.
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