One aspect that doesn't get enough attention is the concept of time.
In the Eastern tradition, the past is viewed as in front of the observer, while the future is behind. Colloquially because the past and what is in front are known, while the future and what is behind are unknown. This does accord with the fact we see events after they occur, then the situation mutates.
While the Western view is of the future in front and the past behind, because we see ourselves as individuals moving through our context. Which is very object oriented and also linear.
The point I would make about time is that as these mobile organisms, we have this sequential process of perception as a function of navigation, so we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future. Further solidified by culture being largely narrative based.
The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, not a dimensionless point between past and future.
This dynamic creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.
Consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past. Though it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the forms/information precipitating out.
Which pretty much makes reality these endless feedback loops, between energy and the forms defining and directing it.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. Cosmic convection cycles.
Seeing reality as linear is like seeing the world as flat.
