Author Archives: Jack

The opening pages of chapter 10 seem to me absolutely clear. The usual idea of ‘objective time’ is here rejected as a construct rather than something real. In a sense this means giving priority to subjective time, though that oversimplifies … Continue reading →

It’s always interesting to come to the end of a TSK program. You realize you have not really arrived anywhere. Instead, you have opened up new questions. Very often, if we are honest, that openness closes down again fairly quickly, … Continue reading →

I found myself in practice this morning with a phrase from Milarepa dwelling in my mind: In the beginning, nothing comes; In the middle nothing stays; In the end nothing goes. Having looked it up (The Hundred Thousand Songs of … Continue reading →

DTS chapter 9 goes over some of the same material as the LOK chapters, but seems to me unusually clear on how we are “stuck” in the present, with no access to past or future. I want to focus on … Continue reading →

Hi all, Like Michael, I enjoyed the last few posts (including his!). The image of riding on a wave is good, and somehow that image of “surfing” comes up often: it seems to capture something of the sense of balance … Continue reading →

I love the image (LOK p. 181) of the self as joining the march of objective, linear time like a pedestrian caught up in a parade. But of course, it is not comic. Heidegger said something similar when he wrote … Continue reading →

Michael, I like your image of a house of mirrors that disappears when we find the door that lets us out. At the same time, I think it’s fair to say that there is no ‘outside.’ We are ‘inside’ linear … Continue reading →

Let’s stay with the complex of exercises from LOK 14, 22, 23. Move around among them as you like. The reading for this week is Chapter 18. There is a sentence at the beginning of the week that I long … Continue reading →

Just some quick comments on previous posts for this past week, which seem to me very fruitful. First, the relation between thinking and time that Arthur mentions. Suppose I say, “I think I know what time is.” I am really … Continue reading →

Just thought I would write a word of encouragement to those of you we haven’t been hearing from. The discussion online has been very good; I love to see what people are doing with the practices and learning from the … Continue reading →