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Hi Tina, It’s nice to hear a voice from time and space during this vacation from TSK. I’ve been reading Knowledge of Time and Space on my own for the past month or two. This morning I read a passage that presents second-level Space as “projecting” the ordinary space/appearance pair. This use of the image of “projecting” reminded me of how the self is also presented as “projecting”–projecting attributes like substance and linear time onto a realm that doesn’t really possess them. I had the thought that perhaps the self, busy in its self-serving projections of what it thinks it wants, might be reassured by the thought that another, more allowing kind of projection is going on. And that a more open kind of freedom–even for the self as it is–might be available by acknowledging that we don’t have to work so hard at inventing our imagined reality, because another reality is already being imagined for us.

I like the way you relate our dreams to our attempts to realize them. I’ve been thinking that either can be a starting point, just as the third component of the Eightfold path can be a starting point: i.e., we can integrate both our dreams and our actions through meditation, no matter how disturbed both may be. Hope you’re enjoying your summer. — Michael

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