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About Lesley

TSK arrived in my consciousness through classes and retreats taken at the Nyingma Institute. The path leading me to Nyingma Institute was skillfull means, the path keeping me there is devotion, the path I'm intrigued with is knowledge in its pure form. The particular type of knowledge I am interested in is MindBody or BodyMind (without the hyphen)--the depths of our being.

The moment when…

Interesting, awareness and moment(s). Just yesterday, I ran across an exercise suggested in a book on centering and awareness. Simply, give your 3 minutes, the exercise is to stand up and see if you can become aware of what is … Continue reading

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Exercises 18-19, 20-21

OK. chronosynclastic infundibulum from Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan. Wish TSK was as easy…(but then I cheated by looking up the phrase on the internet. of course, Johnny Depp in Pirates in one of his famous one-worders, “pirate,” disclaims all … Continue reading

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Day to Day

Dear friends, As I scan the posts and comments, I am soaking up the thoughtfully posed intellectual curiosity. Yet, this morning, I am finding a disconnect (my disconnect, not that of the writers) to the here and now. Day to … Continue reading

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Trust (and a little of Giant Body)

Hello, A few weeks back, I wrote a post wondering whether or how trust was investigated in the TSK vision. Jack commented on relevancy but that perhaps TSK did not directly address trust , and that trust could be a … Continue reading

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Unit 4, words as symbols, disappearance of mental physical distinctions

Hi, On p 34 of “Rains”, Jack notes TSK Guide 21 Symbols. This got me thinking about words as symbols and how the reading that we are doing is about taking in multitudes of symbols (words), and digesting, absorbing, metabolizing, … Continue reading

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LOK Exercise 5 – Disowning Tension

Shifting focus from “owning” a situation to being a “given part” of a situation. Knocked my socks off–a work situation (my main playground) that has been tense for me for years relaxed into “team.” Team is a big deal for … Continue reading

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Unit 2: LOK Ex 5 — Elusive

LOK was the first DP book I bought–the title, organization, diagrams, poems, short segments all intrigued me–the multidimensional ways of presenting the inquiries. In reading Ex 5 this morning, I’m mystified about the difference between being “owner” of a situation and … Continue reading

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Exercise A: Expanding Condensing in Movement

Hi all, I’m exploring posts and trust that Jack will let me know if what I’m writing is best placed in a journal rather than on the forum. I’m playing with Exercise A: Expanding Condensing.  This exercise tends to stump … Continue reading

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Lesley Tinker

TSK arrived in my consciousness through classes and retreats taken at the Nyingma Institute. The path leading me to Nyingma Institute was skillfull means, the path keeping me there is devotion, the path I’m intrigued with is knowledge in its … Continue reading

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