Three Nows
You know about present, right? While there are quite a few perspectives on present, including past present and future present, there are also developmental stages of presencing, simply conceivable as prereflective now, reflective now, and postreflective now. Everyone interested in the power of now, whether traditional Zen or Eckhart Tolle, would do well to distinguish between these three. Here's an example of a prereflective now, and since we all seem to know what reflective now means, postreflective now would be that which goes beyond both of these.
"Pre-trans fallacy" refers to the mistakes by the reflective in an attempt to identify the other two. It may be either elevation of pre- into post/trans or reduction of post/trans to pre-. To keep it simple, it's a mess.
But that ain't all, however. In each of these there is nunc stans, eternal present (i.e. dharmakaya for you buddhist folks) and the nunc fluent, flowing present (i.e. rupakaya, whether gross or subtle). And the relationship of these two, their separation/difference and unity/ identity will have to be addressed from one of those three nows. Gets interesting, right?
"Pre-trans fallacy" refers to the mistakes by the reflective in an attempt to identify the other two. It may be either elevation of pre- into post/trans or reduction of post/trans to pre-. To keep it simple, it's a mess.
But that ain't all, however. In each of these there is nunc stans, eternal present (i.e. dharmakaya for you buddhist folks) and the nunc fluent, flowing present (i.e. rupakaya, whether gross or subtle). And the relationship of these two, their separation/difference and unity/ identity will have to be addressed from one of those three nows. Gets interesting, right?
1 Comments:
Very interesting, brother Hokai -- and excellent observations. Indeed, people may not know what they're asking for, if they ask to live in a perpetual "now" -- particularly if they approach this with a bias against rationality and cognition, as strangely happens in some spiritual communities. I may "riff" on this, from a TSK point of view, and post a companion blog soon.
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