Time Space and Knowledge (Part 5)

Since the Age of Enlightenment, modernity has inculcated a worldview based on distance and separation -- a disenchanted world -- one in which space and time are considered nothing more than convenient maps and background mediums for human affairs. We have become alienated on both a personal and global level,  culminating in a climate crisis with its destabilizing effects on economies and the potential for civilizational collapse.  It’s almost as if space, time and even our own knowledge, have turned against us. On some level, we often feel that we “..a basic insufficiency of space to live in, of time to use it, and of knowledge to enjoy it.”  

While mindfulness techniques have helped people to reduce their stress and anxiety in a world out of balance, we need more than palliatives and coping skills. To heal our divisions, we need a new vision of reality that transforms our human embodiment in space and time, a vision which promotes our intrinsic freedom and nourishes our deepest values.    

In this course, we will engage in a new kind of inquiry, using Tarthang Tulku’s seminal book, Time, Space and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality (TSK).  We will explore Space, Time and Knowledge as offering visionary pathways for transforming the way we perceive and embody these fundamental facets of human experience. 

Week 1: Why Should We Care About Space? 
Week 2: Space and Human Embodiment 
Week 3: Transparentizing the Body
Week 4: Beyond Mindfulness: Opening up the Mind-Body-Thought Interplay
Week 5: The Self as a Consolidating Tendency
Week 6: Discovering an Active, Open Space
Week 7: Participation as Observer