Author Archives: Michael Gray

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 →

On page 33 of DTS, in italics, there’s a phrase that I don’t understand:  “Since appearance never takes form, each appearance–inseparable from space–fills the whole of space.”  It’s filling all of space that I don’t understand.  Is this pointing to the … Continue reading →

Watching a splash of light dancing around my livingroom wall, as I was reading the image from DTS of a containing box being folded up, I wondered where the light on my wall came from.  Without getting up, I worked out … Continue reading →

As David expresses in his post, I also found myself feeling that the practice for this week (together with attention to Jack’s four non-content layers of experience) allows experience to feel more spacious.  When I asked why this might be … Continue reading →