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.

Raven Knows

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Michael Gray

Raven Knows. A trunk by itself is nothing Concentric circles locked in place Big zeros and little zeros Marking time, polarizing space   But add branches, add a few twigs Limbs reaching out, gathering in And the trunk packs for … Continue reading →

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Eknosis/two-way-sensing

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Michael Gray

“”Inward knowledge of time is also the ‘inward knowing outward’ of eknosis.” (Dynamics of Time and Space”, page 159)  But which is it? To look inward at time, don’t we have to be outside looking in?  If we’re inside looking … Continue reading →

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Surviving the school years

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Michael Gray

This week’s reading brings to mind the difficulties I experienced and that a lot of kids who “learn differently” have with the rote-leaning emphasized in school and called for in the process of learning how to fit in.  Perhaps creativity … Continue reading →

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Not, Not. Who’s There?

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Michael Gray

On Page 149 o f Dynamics of Time and Space” there appears one of those mind-bending TSK expressions : “Operating before each measured-out move, prior to directionality,   it is the not-not-not.” Is it possible to understand, is it possible … Continue reading →

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What Draws us?

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Michael Gray

Q: What Draws me to TSK? A: Initially and to this day it is the vision’s ability to penetrate the life I am living  (time), recognize my familiar body and world (space), and acknowledge my animating desire to survive, understand … Continue reading →

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Be the Story

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Michael Gray

In the film “Groundhog Day”, that modern-day masterpiece about the force of Karma, Reincarnation, and TSK in daily life, Weatherman Phil is stuck reliving the same day over and over and over.  His “story” becomes his daily attempt to attract … Continue reading →

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Conducting the pitch

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Michael Gray

This morning, planning my day as I have done since spending time with “Skillful Means” and “Mastering Successful Work” years ago, it occurred to me that I rarely get through my List for the day.  Energy runs out.  Or as … Continue reading →

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Juggling a few beads at once

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Michael Gray

Last night, walking the dogs in a brisk desert wind, old feelings arose from a morning in Canada, standing at the edge of  a field, snow melting, and the pine boughs singing in a springtime breeze.  Then this morning, I … Continue reading →

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Responses to Caroline’s TSK Questionaire

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Michael Gray

TSK Questionnaire   Briefly outline previous spiritual/philosophical study & practice. In the 1970’s, I read all I could by George Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky.  In the early 1980’s I was introduced to meditation and Eastern spiritual traditions by an Albuquerque … Continue reading →

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Practice Day–“Telling Stories”

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Michael Gray

The practice on page 289 of KTS suggests that we: “Look for those (stories) that consistently repeat themselves.  Can you touch the energy bound up in those stories?  Can you release it?’ I’m sure I have a lot of stories. … Continue reading →

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