Non-Relational Cognition, a beginning

The only way that a truly satisfactory form of knowing can instantiate itself in us is by practice. That which is, the manifesting of all phenomena and their being made sentient, i.e., their being rendered experiential, is an ephemeral manifesting that creates and destroys simultaneously. I often resort to the example of a candle-flame. The flame becomes and to become means to be in a ceaseless unfolding from manifest to unmanifest to manifest to unmanifest. This is what Buddhists designate as anitya or impermanence and Samkhyakas and Yogis call guna-parinama, pratiprasava, and assorted other terms. Impermanence is a movement not a thing. It is that ceaseless movement I just described. Without the continual dissolution of the manifest all experience would cease, as would the candle-flame. Watch the flame someday. See how it is eating itself alive to survive. It moves like an ouroboros, a snake that eats its own tail. This movement may also be termed time. Living time, as this movement, is experience. Space manifests in accord with the predispositions (karma, samskaras) that inhere in time resulting from past actions. Almost all acts leave a deposit of sorts that will in turn become situated in new experience. Space will expand and shrink accordingly. Time and space are intimately bound together in this living movement of experience.