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About Christopher

I first read TSK in 1978, and have enjoyed exploring Rinpoche's (printed) work ever since. I'm an insight meditation teacher in Sydney, Australia, and I live in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. I'm also a psychotherapist and a Focusing trainer (Gendlin).

“Homework”

It isn’t unknown for me to give ‘homework’ to my therapy clients, but it’s usually in response to particular needs. However, I have a few volunteers who have lined up to explore what a TSK Therapy might feel like (over … Continue reading

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First Moment

Jack picks up the matter of ‘first moments’ – I often renew and enjoy the wonder of not being able to find a beginning to my in-breath or a moment of ending. Does it make sense, if there is no … Continue reading

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Moments

Dear Friends, I’m continuing to enjoy studying TSK and sharing it with my meditation groups, too. This week I’ve been mostly enjoying noting the regular stream of linear-time imagining that flows in the background to my daily activities. The ‘moments’ … Continue reading

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Post from Chris

I was feeling gratitude today, for the community doing this inquiry; for our teachers, and for true nature. I was doing an inquiry into some painful, angry feelings. Staying in open (and even playful) curiosity, I allowed the feelings to … Continue reading

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The blessings of Suchness

Dear Friends, I’ve been a bit busy, too, over the last weeks, but I’d like you to know that I’ve been contemplating the subject-object dance, nevertheless. In response to a recent post by Jack, I went through the books and … Continue reading

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Self, Subject, Desire & Intimacy

Dear Peter, and All, Jack wrote: “The self is always busy constructing its world: assigning meanings and telling stories. But none of this works if the self is not somehow in charge of reality.” And the text very nicely says, … Continue reading

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Experiment

I think I’ve worked out how to get my posts to turn up in the online program now. Let’s see. I’ll repost my contribution that recently turned up in general comments: Posts filed under ‘general comments’ Further discoveries with the … Continue reading

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Further discoveries with the Glow

I’ve been practicing in conversation it with people every day, and it has produced many interesting experiences and insights. I’d like to share just one of them: I was practicing the glow while talking with my wife the other night, … Continue reading

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I wondered what all the talk of ‘glow’ was about, until I realised that I had done the LOK ex.17 and not the TSK ex.17. Oh, well… I’m glad that I made the mistake because the process, and the discovery … Continue reading

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Exercise 17 – Background feeling

I sat paying attention to the background feeling for a whole meditation session. The result was that the “foreground” feelings could not only change in a free-flowing way – free of any resisting evaluations or biased assessments – but the … Continue reading

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