Author Archives: Michael Gray

Dear Michael: Thank you for your sharing. I am currently in a situation that if it was a couple of years ago, I would be very scared… and big time stressed out…, but due to the practices and the teachings … Continue reading →

Following up on Jack’s invitation, here’s a statement and a question: we tend to wait for the future, at the expense of living our lives in our own time (Waiting for the Second Coming, Waiting for Godot). The alternative we have … Continue reading →

Reading the sad story of how we helplessly, hopelessly conduct a dreary sameness forward, two lighter thoughts came to the rescue this morning: 1/ the strange statement in an earlier chapter that we contact the dynamic of time from inside … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening there was an ad on TV in which ordinary-seeming people were proclaiming how wrong-headed it would be to tax domestic exploration for gas and oil.  That would hurt ordinary people like us.  I wasn’t really paying much attention, … Continue reading →

I’ve been noticing that (I suspect unlike some of the other participants in this program) I haven’t maintained a strong enough meditation practice to deeply experience what it’s like to inhabit time in a new way: to explore the margins … Continue reading →

I was struck by Jack’s mention of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff (in Sunday’s call), since it was these writers who helped me to become open to Buddhism and TSK.  Gurdjieff promised three series of writing: the first to destroy his reader’s illusions that … Continue reading →

Sometimes the TSK vision seems to ask us to repeal all our existing perspectives and notions of how reality works.  And sometimes it points directly at what we have always believed, but does so in a way that animates these … Continue reading →

There’s a sentence in this week’s reading (middle of Page 87), “The ever unfolding sequences move toward increasing dimensionalization: the multiple pronouncing of what has been recorded.”  This reminds me of another sentence, in the previous unit, where we studied how … Continue reading →

I was taken aback by an image on Page 77 of DTS: the suggestion that our “concern” could allow us to view the present as encompassing entire geologic eras.  My immediate thought was that a longer span of time can … Continue reading →