Author Archives: Bruce

Already/Never

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Bruce

How I enjoyed taking a “TSK walk” at work again!  Time was resonant for me on the walk, as I felt my contemplative steps around the building kicked up not only fallen leaves, but memories of many past such walks … Continue reading →

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Worm-holes, Bubbles, and Sky

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Bruce

I explored both of the assigned practices this week.  I enjoyed both, but I’m not quite sure how they relate to each other. With abiding in thought, I found myself, at least initially, approaching it imaginally and “geometrically” — finding … Continue reading →

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Practice Day Notes 2 – Transitions, Distance, and Allowingness

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Bruce

In a separate session today, I started out with the warm up exercise (attending to the ongoing transitioning of experience), and then continued to explore DTS Ex 7, this time trying to be aware of space at several different levels … Continue reading →

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Practice Day Notes – Seeing Objects from Multiple Perspectives at Once

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Bruce

In the past, I have often taken this literally — imagining viewing an object from multiple vantages in space, from front, back, inside, above, close, far, and so on.  In this session, however, I looked at the objects in my … Continue reading →

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Is Change Given In Experience?

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Bruce

For this week’s exercise, I have played with attending to change while sitting at my desk at work.  It is a static place, so I have focused on my shifting experience of the cubicle — either to the roving of … Continue reading →

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Becoming Animal

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Bruce

Serendipitously, I just picked up a book which seems to touch quite poetically and evocatively on some of the themes Jack is helping us to explore in this course.  The book is entitled Becoming Animal, by David Abram.  The following … Continue reading →

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The Space and Subjectivity of the Field

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Bruce

I followed my usual practice of conducting my TSK inquiry while taking a walk on a break at work.  I explored a number of things as I shifted from one sense field to another, but what stood out for me … Continue reading →

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Thinking and Thought

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Bruce

I’ve enjoyed returning to this inquiry into the nature of thought.  Here’s my phenomenological report so far: This morning, watching thinking as it arose, I noticed that “thought” most often shows up for me in two forms:  either as an … Continue reading →

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View from Nowhere

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Bruce

Reflecting on today’s call, and going in to this week’s inquiry, I’m finding myself challenged already.  (Not that that’s a bad thing!).  But in recent years, in other contexts, I’ve reflected a lot on the notion of a “view from … Continue reading →

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Stripping Away the Owner

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Bruce

During the phone call today, we were asked to strip away the sense that experience was “my experience,” if possible.  Perhaps I was more successful at that than I had realized, because when I tried to share my experience, I … Continue reading →

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