Author Archives: Michael Gray

About Michael Gray

I first started studying TSK in the mid 1980's and have since attended a number of retreats and workshops at the Nyingma Institute, in both TSK and Buddhist themes. I participated in the life-changing Human Development Training Program in 1991, and upon returning to Albuquerque co-founded an organization, Friends in Time (with a friend who has Lou Gehrig's Disease), which continues to serve people with similiar disabilities. I contributed an essay to "A New Way of Being"--the last one in the book--in which I describe how learning to honor who I have been has broadened and deepened my openness to present experience. I live in New Mexico with my wife and two sons.

Appearance fills the whole of Space

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

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Removing the Container–Michael

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

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Space Beneath the Canopy

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

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Light Awareness

I find Chapter 20 of DTS evokes for me the times in my life when I have felt most despairing and also how at my lowest point something healing would intervene.  The description of being imprisioned in hopelessness (“As thought stumbles … Continue reading

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A few thoughts about neurological diseases

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been connecting the recently assigned TSK material (about how our sensations involve both inner and outer light) with the situation of people with whom I work and who have the neuromuscular diseases, ALS … Continue reading

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The Meaning of Experience

Among the questions on Page xxxvii of SDTS is: “(can we) Express the meaning of experience?”  I am reminded of a claim made by George Santayana that I read decades ago, in which he says that the beauty of Plato’s … Continue reading

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Darkness doesn’t believe in Light

I’ve always felt that I have very little capacity for visualization of any kind.  So I start a practice that invites me to visualize not just one but an expanding bubble of lights with a dim conviction that this exercise can … Continue reading

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Time feels fuller

One final post, in the five minutes available this morning: I’ve really appreciated this on-line class on time and intend to register for the next class on Light.  This morning I had a satisfying thought about my relationship with time: … Continue reading

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Riding the Wave of the moment

Hi, I really appreciated the experiential vividness of the last three posts (Arthur, David, Marcia).  My own experience of the exercise in the last two paragraphs of DTS 99 is helping me to understand the recent readings.  In particular, the … Continue reading

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The First Moment

“Does each earlier moment already encompass within it the potential for all succeeding moments of time?” (LOK 122)  This invokes for me the more local issue of how a single cell can contain all that is needed for the evolution … Continue reading

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