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.

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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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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