cynicus

Didactic Chronology.

An interesting phrase, really.

You can look at it two ways . . . . meaningful time or boring time. I really don't know why the words popped into my head, but they did, and now I have to deal with them.

I see it as 'instructive time'. Time teaches us many things as long as we have the patience to learn them. Time moves at a pace that is all its own, never ours, and seldomly perceptible. However, it can be noted, though. Dream journals, blogs, conversations with friends, especially over emails, etc.

One can learn all there is to learn simply by allowing time to teach you. But you have to act during that time. just sitting around waiting for it will yield nothing. Go through the regular motions of life - wake, work, sleep, repeat - and time will show you the way, often in means that never occur to you or that you might ever notice you took.

But learning to perceive it can bring spectacular epiphany, and perhaps even a pedagogy that you can leave as legacy for posterity. And once harnessed, can elevate you far above and beyond the rough and tumble, transcend and edify, and all without effort or thought.

It is, I believe, at the heart of Toaism, but I cannot explain it t you, for that would defy the very first quatrain of the Tao. All I can do is illuminate a pathway. Only you can walk down it, and what you find will not be what I find, even if it is the very same truth.

Time is a friend, a companion, and a teacher. Interesting, no?