Author Archives: Michael Gray

About Michael Gray

I first started studying TSK in the mid 1980's and have since attended a number of retreats and workshops at the Nyingma Institute, in both TSK and Buddhist themes. I participated in the life-changing Human Development Training Program in 1991, and upon returning to Albuquerque co-founded an organization, Friends in Time (with a friend who has Lou Gehrig's Disease), which continues to serve people with similiar disabilities. I contributed an essay to "A New Way of Being"--the last one in the book--in which I describe how learning to honor who I have been has broadened and deepened my openness to present experience. I live in New Mexico with my wife and two sons.

Knowing the Ocean

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Michael Gray

Within each point of time and space infinite depths are available. SDTS xix How wonderful to apprehend that there is a vast realm in which Time, Space and Knowledge are at play and that everything I experience is just the … Continue reading →

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The Glow of Thinking

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Michael Gray

          The Object and its Glow practice invites a way of looking that draws an observer into the realm of knowing.  The cactus bloom seems a symbol for anything in which an aura feels less solid than … Continue reading →

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Assignment, Week 4

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Michael Gray

Assignment 2, Session 2.  The assignment for week 4 invites an inquiry into how our understanding of time affects whatever practices we may have.  Does meditation help us to rise above lower time?  Does lower time limit the potential benefits … Continue reading →

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Life is like a dog chew–speaking metaphorically. (Session 2, Assignment 1)

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Michael Gray

  In reflecting on this week’s TSK quote, about how issues on this level can be a useful indication of what is being blocked out from a higher level, I was drawn to two kinds of exploration.  Reflection: I seem … Continue reading →

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Kinds of Space

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Michael Gray

Following up on a statement in Jack’s orientation notes: “It makes sense to say that every ‘thing’ that appears has it own kind of space.” This raises an interesting question. Can the possibility of different kinds of space coexist with … Continue reading →

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Space: the raft of being

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Michael Gray

Dabbling in TSK feels like taking a guided tour through a foreign land.  This morning I read a good part of Jack’s Space essay in A New Way of Being, and at some point I realized with pleasure that I … Continue reading →

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An old tale from Ancient Greece–told from a TSK perspective.

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Michael Gray

                                                   Meeting at the Zero Point (Gray) By mid-morning, the heat of another Mediterranean day beats … Continue reading →

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Rumors of Joy, Seeds of Inquiry

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Michael Gray

Experiencing the Joy of Inquiry.   Two experiences come to mind: in one a sudden realization opened a door to the future; in the other a path of inquiry opened more quietly.  They both continue to influence how I live. … Continue reading →

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The Soul and TSK

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Michael Gray

I’ve been wondering why I keep being drawn to TSK.  This weekend I attended an opening lecture of a weekend workshop celebrating a spiritual path called “MasterPath”.  The core book, “Soul’s Divine Journey” uses words that I don’t personally use … Continue reading →

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My Motivation to study TSK

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Michael Gray

An old friend of mine was recently written up in the Albuquerque Journal because he has been a  pie baking judge at the State Fair for many years.  The journalist asked him why he always took such a large bite … Continue reading →

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