Common time

Habits and conventions, once formed, tend to sink beneath our notice. We are primed to notice the unusual, the uncommon, the exceptional; we look for the un- or super-natural rather than the natural. What is common to all experience is the deepest component of the phaneron, but the most difficult to attend to. It takes a communal effort to construct a context in which our language (or any symbol system) can refer to it at all. In more ordinary circumstances we have to approach it indirectly, by creating sudden openings in the bubbles whose surfaces furnish the ground of our awareness. Such mindquakes, momentarily at least, reveal the bubbles as impermanent. Indeed impermanence is the very presence of the bubble, the continuity of time.

As a social being, the inhabitation of your time is the interhabitation of our time, communal time.

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