Author Archives: Jack

Michael (our new addition for this unit; Michael, perhaps you can post to the “meet the participants” section) brings up the connection between the openness of the field and an openness that makes it possible to transform anxiety. I just … Continue reading →

Arthur, if you haven’t done so already, look at the discussion in the first TSK about the “coming out tendency.” Jack

Arthur points out that it is no easy matter to find moments between moments (LOK Ex. 14), because (my words) this seems to suggest that you can hold on to the first moment while moving toward the second. I have … Continue reading →

Arthur points out that it is no easy matter to find moments between moments (LOK Ex. 14), because (my words) this seems to suggest that you can hold on to the first moment while moving toward the second. I have … Continue reading →

We are ready to jump back into TSK. I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Time during the holiday season seems to work differently from time in the rest of the year: more loose and open in some ways, … Continue reading →

David has written a very thoughtful and precise description of how aware spaciousness transitions into a blank, and then back out into aware spaciousness and from there to sensations and then to thoughts. There are some aspects of the Buddhist … Continue reading →

Gaynor is troubled by a sentence in TSK: “It becomes equally appropriate to maintain that this fact (that no source is found) is conclusive evidence that such a source does not exist, rather than being simply a corollary of the … Continue reading →

Arthur has two posts about the current unit. He starts with his strong experience in looking at the “chain” or “train” of thoughts that we are usually so caught in, but is pleased that he can “rest” there, without getting … Continue reading →

Hi Ron — Quite a dream. Did the liquid itself glow? It’s interesting how you take this practice toward time; in a way you are combining the practice with “past-present-future of each moment. Bruce, thanks for the blossom. Your sense … Continue reading →

Arthur writes of often feeling confused in the exercises and readings, in part because of language issues. (You might try working some of these out ‘nebenbei’ with some of the other German participants.) He has the sense the reading is … Continue reading →