Author Archives: Jack

The reading this week goes into the relation between light and darkness that Gaynor, Peter, and others have already been exploring. The suggestion has been made that darkness can allow or embody light, but here Rinpoche is writing about a … Continue reading →

You will see that I placed on the website a “light gallery.” The idea is for people to post images that relate to light. David has already posted several in this course and others; David, it would be nice if … Continue reading →

We are having a few problems with The Labyrinth right now. The place to click for writing a post disappeared. I finally found it by clicking the “CCI Home” tab. So that may work for you too. I appreciate very … Continue reading →

Okay, I took that title from last week’s reading. But at this point, I encourage you to read lightly, to read around, to “activate receptivity” to light. The posts about language have made me sensitive to it in our reading. … Continue reading →

Marcia in her comment on David’s post suggests that the language of the TSK books can itself invoke light. That seems right to me. The Western philosopher Heidegger wrote once (roughly) that the task of philosophy was to go down … Continue reading →

The chapters from DTS that we start to work with this week offer the most sustained discussion of light in the body of TSK books, so we want to take our time. The reading goes only to the top of … Continue reading →

Marcia continues a previous comment, to which I responded in a post. She says (and so does Peter in a post) that these things are hard to put in words. It’s true, but words can also help. Marcia, I think … Continue reading →

I’m responding with a fresh post to Marcia’s comment. She wrote: As I understand after practicing… When we practice meditation, or mindfulness, we feel that our scattered mind are suddenly called back again in it’s wholeness and all our different … Continue reading →