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The Constructs of Past and Future
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
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
Practice 2.
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
Upside Down
The final paragraph of chapter 6 refers to the self in a way that seems like a mirror image of how we looked earlier in the chapter at substance. Â The self is too collapsed and it’s world is too parsed … Continue reading
Less is More
Trying to make sense of the concept of “zeroless”, two phrases come to mind: “Less is More,” and “Being Nobody Going Nowhere” (the title of a Buddhist book.) Â Distance, separation, and substance, viewed as intrinsic to space, continue to operate … Continue reading
The arrow goes and the arrow comes
In the final paragraph of this week’s reading is the statement: “In each moment, we can know with the records of the past and the possibilities of the future.” Â And on the top of Page 9 of Knowledge of Time … Continue reading
Unable to join today’s TSK conference
I have not received an e-mail with the information I need to either phone in 0r login. Â The info I have from October does not allow me to connect in either way. Â If anyone sees this and has the information, … Continue reading
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Several Perspectives at once
This is a practice that has captured my attention for several months where I work: a large non-profit which adopted a small 20-year-old non-profit I cofounded with a friend who has ALS. Â Going about my business trying to help … Continue reading
Practice Day notes: Interior as Surface
Challenging the claim that a substantial interior lies behind surface appearances, DTS seems to assign something else to play the role of an agency that operates invisibly in the background. Â Sometimes it’s the Field Communique and sometimes it’s Space, but … Continue reading
New semester of TSK
Just putting my foot into the new waters of another TSK class. Â Two thoughts have been stimulated by the readings: 1/Existence is not guaranteed by appearance: what a radical insight. Â Yet familiar from daily life. Â How often have I “known” … Continue reading