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Just a quick appetizer for Week 4

A lovely line for inquiry and practice (SDTS p. xxxviii): The quality of illumination is the point of being, and the point of being is the time-space-knowledge trinity. Jack

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Light everywhere: week 3

I am very glad to see people working with these exercises in ordinary situations and in sitting practice both. These are in one way very advance practices: as you can see, they come at the end of the book and … Continue reading

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Lights, candles, action

It’s nice to see people working with this practice and sharing what you find. Michael, your experience with lightening your expectations is just right, and even though it would not work in other languages, I think the connection between ‘light’ … Continue reading

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Revised readings and exercises

Week One TSK 271-274, Ex. 32A Week Two TSK 281-286, Ex. 32B Week Three KTS Ch. 110 (490-493), TSK Ex. 33 Week Four SDTS xxxvii-xxxix TSK Ex. 4 (as modified) TSK Ex. 34 Week Five DTS pp. 199-203 DTS Ex. … Continue reading

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Week Two: TSK 281-6 and Ex. 32 B

Hi all, I intend to get off to a more timely start this week. You will see that the discussion at the beginning of ch. 15 (p. 281) is related to my last couple of posts: within “the obstructing presence … Continue reading

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A little more on seeing, light, and the other senses

Yesterday I mentioned that I had found it natural to extend the practice of relating to appearance as ‘light-manifestation’ to the other senses. I had the sense that this was a bit extreme. But this morning I read something interesting … Continue reading

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A little nudge

Since no one is participating yet, I don’t want to push you too far in a particular direction. But I am curious whether you have been working with the exercise I suggested: to see appearance as (essentially) light manifestion. In … Continue reading

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Orientation to Course 3 and Week one reading

The topic of light is potentially deeply interesting and (excuse me for saying it) illuminating. We have been taught to think of light as a purely physical phenomenon. But light necessarily involves both what is seen and the one that … Continue reading

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Welcome to course 3

Dear Participants, My apologies for not getting started earlier. I had it firmly fixed in my mind that the course did not start until April 24. But today I received a kind nudge from Kathleen. So here I am. I … Continue reading

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VOK Question 50

The questions in Visions of Knowledge are not given as much attention as they deserve (by me or by others studying the TSK vision). But let’s at least look at the briefly. In the post I just filed on DTS … Continue reading

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