Author Archives: Marcia

‘Darkness that reduces light to substance’ makes sense for me, in my daily experience, when I think of moments when, in the act of living them I tend to ‘close’ their potential openness in ready, particular and personal ‘meanings’ and … Continue reading →

I chose an ordinary situation of ‘not-knowing’ and confusion to work with the practices 32- and 32-B. I went for a blood test in a lab of clinical analysis. As I was waiting I could feel some fear- very subtle … Continue reading →

After doing exercise 32 for three or four times, I had a sense that, before the practice, the feeling of space ‘outside’ was kind of cloudy and mysterious and ‘inside’ I was feeling a bit fearful. After exercise 32 – … Continue reading →

I looked for a translation into portuguese and found it in Ezra Pound’s ABC of reading:   amanhã, amanhã e amanhã caminha em passo parco de dia a dia até a última sílaba do tempo e todo nosso passado nada … Continue reading →

As I was reading Chapter 9 of DTS, there was a feeling that “I” was separate from the contents of the chapter, “I” was trying to make sense of what was “real-ly” being said about being in the present… until … Continue reading →

Before getting asleep or before fully awakening… are those moments between moments? There is less solidity, the known world is not there… there’s a kind of ‘blank’ from which all colors can come. Is this a moment between (or within) … Continue reading →

  Hi, Jack, I´m back again. I would like to comment on your initial letter introducing this second course.   “If you set out to experience time, do you only experience the events that happen in time?” The zen tradition … Continue reading →

Before getting asleep or before fully awakening… are those moments between moments? There is less solidity, the known world is not there… there’s a kind of ‘blank’ from which all colors can come. Is this a moment between (or within) … Continue reading →

Peter says, “Actually, I only live in the past.” Do others agree? Kum Nye exercises connected with Time are powerful, at least in my experience, to make us taste more fully the present (or presence) of each moment, especially the … Continue reading →

I have practiced this exercise a few times during the past years and I feel it is a powerful way to have our usual sense of ‘me’ and ‘myself’ challenged. Boundaries seem to dissolve between ‘me here’ and ‘the world … Continue reading →