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Week 6 – DTS Ex. 22 – Return to Light
For me, an example of experiencing the quality of darkness within thoughts and feelings is when I’m faced with entering a social situation with numerous people and I feel a shyness, an impulse to hold back or pull back. Looking into … Continue reading
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Week 5 – DTS Ex. 21 – Healing through Light
I sat this morning before the sun rose with no purpose other than to sit without nodding off. In the middle of the silence, a calm slowly dawned, like diminishing shadows in a valley. I came to a perspective where … Continue reading
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Week 3 – Ex. 33 – Self-Transcending Appearance
One way I notice light as a brightening clarity of knowing space is to look not only with my eyes, which can place specific limitations on how and what I see, but to also allow for other sense perceptions to … Continue reading
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TSK Ex. 32 – A Unifying Clarity
I tried to imagine light without any source from a point in front of me, and then added the ‘knowing quality’. This seemed to dissolve a focus on positioning and the feel of ‘now’ expanded to include this light. It … Continue reading
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Phrase From Shakespeare’s Macbeth
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. … Continue reading
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Week 9 – Questions of Language and Pointing
The human language is a means of communicating meaning through symbols. We use an alphabet and word symbols and structure them into coherent sentences to communicate meaning. In the human language a ‘phoneme’ is supposed to designate the smallest structural … Continue reading
Week 8 – DTS Ex. 13 – Commanding Time
This week I’ve been trying to remember to observe ‘the present‘ as the continuous ‘arising‘ of experience. I’ve also tried to be mindful of how page 77 of DTS describes several views of the present: ·  One view of the … Continue reading
Week 7 – DTS p. 100 – The Point of Arising
I often seem to be better at recognizing time, space, and knowing in meditative silence than I am working with them in my daily life, even though there has been improvement over time. Some of this has to do with better … Continue reading
Observing without Owning – LOK Ex. 23 –
I was taking a second look at the jellybean experience (eating consecutive jellybeans). Just naming it like that tends to isolate it from a more encompassing current of what was happening. It isn’t just about the sense of taste in … Continue reading
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Week 5 – Integrating Moments Between Moments with Point of Transition
 Peter, I thought that was a terrific and accurate description. I am that too. Resistance is a good word, to me it describes what the consolidating tendency of the self is doing while engaged in some of its activities at … Continue reading
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