Author Archives: Michael Gray

This morning, reading the new chapter and looking at the practice on page 388, I was struck with how I still think of knowledge as what I extract from the input of the senses, then process and incorporate into some … Continue reading →

There’s something strange about this new chapter, the start of our new theme, “Knowledge Ability”.  It reminds me of Euclidean Geometry in its systematic analysis of perception, but instead of imposing axioms from outside (e.g. “the shortest distance between two … Continue reading →

This morning’s conference call left me with two images: 1/ about the field mechanism that reaches forward in time, my first thought was forward into the future (a presumption of “linear time”?), but then I realized that this forward transmission … Continue reading →

On the eighth day Adam and Eve invented Post- It’s (3″ x 3″ yellow pieces of paper with a sticky edge) and they called them “good”.  From thenceforth if anything quacked like a duck and walked like a duck, they … Continue reading →

Jack emphasized, in going over the second full paragraph on Page 247, how it  urges us to remain within direct experience.  It  is also interesting that these few sentences invoke the Past, the Present, and the Future.  Specifically: A way … Continue reading →

For the past several months I’ve been rereading the Skillful Means series alongside our TSK studies.  I appreciate how these two different approaches reinforce a shared concern with living with awareness and purpose.  This morning, on Page 42 of Mastering … Continue reading →

A shark needs to keep moving in order to remain alive.  Otherwise it would die for lack of oxygen.  I wonder if the human mind needs to keep thinking in order not to sink to the bottom of its ocean. … Continue reading →

In our final call for the year last Sunday, Jack asked how working with the original TSK book has compared to our earlier experiences with TSK books published later.  Thinking about this since, it came to me that I have … Continue reading →

Trying to connect the concept of “read-outs” with the third level promise that “Intimacy is” has caused me to see how I equate such admirable qualities as compassion, empathy, communication and intimacy with acts of reaching out.  Loneliness, isolation, depression … Continue reading →