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 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

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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

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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.  The self is too collapsed and it’s world is too parsed … Continue reading

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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.)  Distance, separation, and substance, viewed as intrinsic to space, continue to operate … Continue reading

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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.”  And on the top of Page 9 of Knowledge of Time … Continue reading

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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.  The info I have from October does not allow me to connect in either way.  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.   Going about my business trying to help … Continue reading

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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.  Sometimes it’s the Field Communique and sometimes it’s Space, but … Continue reading

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New semester of TSK

Just putting my foot into the new waters of another TSK class.  Two thoughts have been stimulated by the readings: 1/Existence is not guaranteed by appearance: what a radical insight.  Yet familiar from daily life.  How often have I “known” … Continue reading

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