Knowledge of Inspiration

Following is an excerpt from TTR's essay, Geographies of Knowledge, which was originally published privately to students through an email group.

Knowledge of Inspiration

Through all the centuries of civilization, knowledge has granted us incredible bounty. Yet we continue to filter the vision of knowledge through a subjective lens that cuts out its depth and cuts off our own capacities. Trusting in an artifical knowledge that adds and subtracts assumptions and distinctions, we cannot accurately map the shifting dynamics of being. All too easily, we fall out of balance. Our actions lead to suffering, our solutions create new problems, and the longings of our heart cannot be healed.

The Body of Knowledge offers an alternative: an appearance 'within' appearance that frees knowledge from the claims of substance. From within its within, there is no beyond the beyond, no witness proclaiming transcendence, no experience structured to conform to speculation, no truth limited by the way things 'really' are.

Focused differently, thought can inject the inspiration of the Body of Knowledge into present 'minding'. Instead of labeling content, thought can explore the space that exhibits content. Instead of tracing cause and effect, it can display the innovative time that presents appearance. Instead of proclaiming what is, it can investigate its own proclaiming. The rational and logical knowledge that define the who and where of what we are can be integrated with the intimacy of being. Contradiction can be transformed into the bonding of alternatives.

If we glimpse such new dimensions of knowledge in our own experience, we can honor their availability and cherish their power. Open to the knowledgeability of each presentation and alive to the wholeness of each arising moment, space and time become sacred. When the meaning of space unites the cosmos with our inner world of thought-perception, the meaning of time can inform our every thought and action. Resisting the call to label and to understand from a subjective point of view, we can embody knowledge as the heart of our own being.

Presented as a system of understanding, TSK relies on assigned meanings and puts forward speculations. Yet even if the vision as expressed in words remains subject to the standard limitations on present knowledge, the presentation can resonate with our own inner knowledgeability, dancing a different way of wording. If we cannot say what we mean, we can invite every experience to speak. If we cannot leap into knowledge, we let go of the secret pockets of identity and judgment. Entering the field of knowledgeability, we can face up to what we do not want to confront, accepting the authority of time and space and knowledge.

Knowledge is in the public domain, owned by no one. It is also a part of our thoughts and minds, enacted in each moment of being. TSK merges these two realities – the meanings of thought joining forces with the meaningfulness of being. At both these levels, we are TSK, beyond any possibility of denial, affirmation, or attainment. When knowledge arises, we need not account for it; when experience opens, we need not specify the methodology at work. The closed circle that confines, the rhythms that shape and limit, express the space-time presence of the knowledge that liberates. Today, when the rhythms of time seem hostile to innovative inner vision, TSK can heal our damaged way of being.

Within mind and thought, there is a body beyond the body we know. In any moment, at any 'within', transforming richness is available. Toward the edge, at the edge, within the edge, thoughts melt into the vision of knowledge. Co-emerging, vision, thought, and presence reveal the unique trajectory of the present curve of time and space.