Descriptions of time, level 2[Attention reveals] 'timing'--as being an embodying process which leads to our restrictive conventional reality in which subject and object, things and `space' are seen as different. (p. xi, TSK)
Initially, second-stage experience of 'time' may show it to be like a 'flow' or a flashing, dynamic factor....If we cling to 'self' and 'thing' presuppositions in the face of a glimpse of 'time' as flowing or flashing, it may seem like an autonomous force 'doing' us or pushing us around. (p. 142, TSK) `Manifesting' is the first way of appreciating a `time' dynamic which presents the situations comprising us and our lives. . . . 'Timing' shows all features of a given presentation to be interrelated, but not in a sense that reinforces the idea of separate items interacting (as for ordinary time). (p. 145, TSK) 'Time' at this second stage can be seen to be the essential force that lets moment give way to moment, and the factor which permits items within a situation or moment to have their own identities....An actual appreciation of 'time' shows that the way in which it presents identities, differences, and interrelations is a direct evocation of 'space', of 'no-things', of non-plurality. (p. 146, TSK) We may see all serial `timing' to be occurring in the same place, rather than establishing an extended `world out there'. That is, all going from place to place, experience to experience, which validates the picture of a spread out world, actually occurs as a succession of 'timed out' experiences in the same 'spot'. (p. 151, TSK) Solid things, places, and directed processes seen on the first level become appreciated--in their second-level 'time' aspect--as being very fluid. This fluid quality is a central feature of 'time', which has been rendered more dry and friction-filled in order for us to play in a first-level way. (p. 161, TSK)
The conventional content of the situation (the 'meanings' given by 'time' as forming a certain observed and existentially charged situation) does not in any essential way relate to that of any other situation or condition. (p. 194, TSK) A focus on momentum lets us consider subject and object alike as projections of the underlying energy of second-level time. 'Time' in this second-level sense distributes experience through past and present and future, presenting the 'logos' that informs the first-level temporal order. Its dynamic allows knowing to 'build up' and interpret a world. As active vitality, 'time' is the essence of our being and our becoming, on which we feed and draw our sustenance. (p. 77, KTS) |
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