Author Archives: Michael Gray

Three responses arose in me to three different parts of the LOK chapter for this week: 1/ The retreat into feelings is all too familiar, fortunately from an earlier time in my life; 2/ The dedication to controlling how my … Continue reading →

Rereading the 3rd paragraph of LOK 150 for the third time, I realized something: I am living out the process being described in what I’m reading.  Just as the self turns toward a future in which it hopes to find satisfaction … Continue reading →

Have you ever noticed that sometimes, reading TSK’s incisive critiques of ordinary knowledge, a protest stirs within and you say, “but I do feel something beyond this ordinariness”?  And can this actually be a recognition of a way out of the ordinariness being critiqued?  … Continue reading →

I don’t know how related this is to TSK insights about stories and self, but the recent material reminds me of my personal past.  I had an addiction to day dreaming which threatened my actual life.  I gave up writing fiction for twenty … Continue reading →

I missed last week’s call (will listen to it later), but since no one has posted on the substitution exercise suggested by Jack (story for model) I just wanted to say that I found it useful.  It helped me to see that … Continue reading →

“Stranger than Fiction” shows a writer with writer’s block.  The way she smokes her cigarettes makes me think of an addict who is in dispair but can’t stop.  The spirit of change that enters her life is like that of … Continue reading →

Perhaps I’ve been experiencing a lightening of the power of stories to define my world of the moment.  I’ve been noticing how hard it is to include another person when they don’t seem to include me.  Yet their contribution may be indispensible to … Continue reading →

I’ve been remembering my first visit to the Nyingma Institute in the mid-eighties, when Bob Pasternak had me do a TSK exercise (The Marriage of Sound and Breath) every day for a week.  The experience of listening to sounds without … Continue reading →

I had an image yesterday morning that gives me a picture of what flattening space might achieve.  You know those pop-up children’s books that open up to a three-dimensional scene in cardboard cut-outs, lifting up to create a little world when … Continue reading →

Sometimes the TSK texts seem to be asking us to shrink our world: flattening three-dimensional space; the suggestion that separation and distance are not real attributes of appearance; the suggestion that a single appearance can fill all of Space.  At … Continue reading →