Author Archives: Michael Gray

I wonder if there are others who, like me, look on this website quite often, see that it’s kind of quiet, wonder if they could say something, but the threshold of insight isn’t reached enough to feel that they have anything … Continue reading →

In this morning’s conference call, discussing how the self’s reliance on models still shows up when we search for knowledge through tradition, feeling, or deference to the transcendent, I kept thinking of the phrase “pang of conscience”.  When we are stopped … Continue reading →

Then I’m sure I would identify with the river banks through which I flowed, would feel more powerful when swollen with the spring run-off , and I would narrate many stories about the droughts and floods I had witnessed.  I … Continue reading →

An interesting side-effect of studying TSK is that writers who were once important to me come to mind in the course of contemplating TSK insights.  One writer is George Gurdjieff.  However, our study of the role models play, in interpreting experience, … Continue reading →

Jack’s notes for this week included a very paradoxical claim: “the self itself is a story told by the self.”  My own self protests: surely everything has a cause outside of itself.”  And the example given, a few sentences later, … Continue reading →

Doing the brief practice in yesterday’s conference call, I enjoyed the feeling of allowing the body to breathe in its own time and space, without undue interference from the controlling self.  So I thought: this is a taste of awareness, … Continue reading →

It’s so easy to agree with TSK statements, since they’ve so often proved true in the past, and then not really test them out in life.  On the first page of chapter 16 I had an uncharacteristic reaction.  Two words … Continue reading →

I’ve been keeping a hand in TSK over the break by reading Love of Knowledge from the beginning.  A sentence in the Introduction (page xli) (on the subject of how direct confrontation with the self really doesn’t get us very … Continue reading →

When TSK exercises invite me to look for something, I often find that I can’t find it–and this then seems like the realization that the exercise was aimed at showing me.   Doing this LOK exercise nudged me toward the following … Continue reading →

A Third Way December 12th, 2009 <!–michaelg–>Edit (I posted this in General by mistake) The poetic exploration of feelings (perhaps started this week by Eric) seems like a step in the direction of a third kind of knowing: one that … Continue reading →