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.

The Future Infinitive

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Michael Gray

In the final paragraph of this week’s reading and of the chapter (on SDTS Page 101), there is a surprising paradox presented in such simple language: “As we move through the present toward the future, doing so from within the … Continue reading →

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A Good Time to Be Alive

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Michael Gray

In 1976, I  fled my old life in Montreal like a man escaping a house on fire.  I abandoned job, apartment, friends, and ran for dear life.  That summer in the farm country of Alberta, it was wonderful to discover … Continue reading →

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The Future that Never Arrives

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Michael Gray

When something never arrives, we might call it a dream.  Yet, paradoxically perhaps, pinning our hopes on a future that is pressed into the service of our wants and fears, is the biggest dream of all.  How wonderful that this … Continue reading →

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David’s comment on Practicing noticing stories

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Michael Gray

(I would have “commented” on David’s comment to my “Telling Stories, Living Stories” post, but the system wouldn’t allow me to).  David, your earlier post from three years ago, sharing your practice of noticing stories, is very relevant to what … Continue reading →

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Stories We Tell, Stories We Live

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Michael Gray

I am working on a new draft of a novel, in which my hope is that my characters will “come alive”.  Anyone who writes fiction will recognize this as a phrase denoting the moment when characters break free of their narrator’s agenda … Continue reading →

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Muses of Time

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Michael Gray

(I wrote this as a comment to csherwood’s post, and it now shows that there is a comment, but when you look there is nothing there.  So I’m hoping that the Post funtion does work). Good Morning, Csherwood across the … Continue reading →

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String me another one

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Michael Gray

In the second complete paragraph on Page 80, in the new chapter for this week, there is a sentence:      “We could say that there are different ‘lineages’ of time, each recorded in accord with its specific nature and qualities, … Continue reading →

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The Constructs of Past and Future

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Michael Gray

Jack ended this morning’s conference call quoting from this week’s reading about how we seem to be sentenced to occupy a vanishingly small present moment, because both Past and Future are constructs, not time which we can step into.  This seems a … Continue reading →

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Mind and throat

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Michael Gray

I appreciate David’s and Hayward’s posts.  I feel I should contribute something, even though inspiration eludes me.  Life David, I rememberdiscovering wonderful insights while practicing Marriage of Sound and Breath.  In my case it was during a week-long retreat at the … Continue reading →

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Practice 2.

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Michael Gray

I’ve been finding Jack’s second practice useful: “Let appearance appear in a way that preserves the insubstantiality of space.  In this way of appearing, substance is the appearance of substance.”  It’s interesting how these two sentences themselves don’t have subjects … Continue reading →

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