Descriptions of space, level 3A truly comprehensive 'space'. . . is not set in contrast to solid, opaque 'things'. (p. xi, TSK)
This vision concerns Space, which is primordially peaceful, open. In its openness, it is an open-ended accommodating of various views, all welling up, floating, gathering within Space. Although undisturbed, it is filled with appearance. Space is therefore not static, but is instead a serene explosion of expanding creativity, filling all the eons of pasts and futures, without exhausting its openness or its capacity for exhibiting a further wealth of presences. (p. xl, TSK) Looking from this higher space, chains of events even within our ordinary space are seen to be nothing other than a kind of 'space' projecting 'space' into 'space'. Yet . . . such an orientation . . . may seem to conflict with ordinary categories and distinctions unless we are sensitive to its purpose and range of application. (pp. 7-8, TSK) The source and resting point of all existence appears to be space. (p. 10, TSK) Lower space is like a walled enclosure. If these walls can be somehow rendered transparent without thereby setting up new walls and points of view, the notion of inside and outside is thus deactivated, and the experience of internal collisions . . . ceases. (p. 15, TSK) Things are not only pervaded by space in an ordinary sense, they also are Great Space--infinite, open, and not excluding other things from being. Great Space does not become something. Nothing rises out of it. Nothing compromises it. Great Space remains infinite, accommodates everything, and yet `sets up' nothing and does nothing. (p. 19, TSK) The Great Space dimension reveals an all-inclusive unity that, rather paradoxically, is not spread out over any region. (p. 62, TSK) The capacity of Great Space is never exhausted or compromised by a commitment to one particular trend or world order. Great Space can let anything appear. Great Space supports infinitely many choices of perspective. (p. 69, TSK) The Great Space perspective shows everything to be . . . an infinite form . . . without an infinitely extended temporal dimension. (p. 81, TSK) While all familiar things are separate and distributed over ordinary space, delineated partly by differences in position, they are all intimately connected insofar as their Great Space dimension is considered. `Distance between' becomes meaningless. (p. 112, TSK)
Each finite and opaque region of our realm is virtually infinite in its Great Space aspect. The fact that one thing `is' does not exhaust or obstruct the possibilities of other things `being there'. The notion of standard regions is inapplicable, but in a sense any finite point has infinite space `there'. (p. 112, TSK) Although level three is not a place unto itself, it involves a shift in perspective that has vast lived significance. At this level we completely transcend a self-centered orientation and become fully with everyone and everything else. Locations and attitudes, problems and confusions, no longer bind us. They are seen as a beautiful play of Great Space (without Great Space being viewed as the external creator of the play). Life and death also provide an interesting play without binding our possibilities in any way. We have no improvement orientation, and yet are fully available to help other people . . . . (pp. 113-14, TSK) Seen in this way, all existence and experience is like an apparition, a surface with no substantial core, no dimensions to it, no wider and founding environment. (p. 199, TSK) At the heart of appearance there is the space within which appearance manifests. Space, itself, however, does not appear, and thus remains unknown: Because it does not occupy space, the `body' of space does not make itself available to be measured. (p. 152, VOK) Space projects Space into Space, in an exhibition that ripples outward. In itself, the exhibition is simple; in fact, since it has no identity, nothing could be simpler. . . . Space projects Space into Space. There are no fixed points and no fixed identity, but quality and character remain. (p. 242, KTS) |
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