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.

Returning to where I started

T S Elliot observed something like: At the end of all our journeying, we return to where we started and know the place for the first time.” I’ve experienced something similar after spending time with the most recent books in … Continue reading

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A few thoughts . . .

“We have framed a reality that has no heart.” —Dynamics of Time and Space, Page 24 These nine words invoke the human realm, how it operates, and how suffering continues. Associations: –Reality has been framed, like an innocent suspect being … Continue reading

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If You’re like me . . .

If you’re like me, you missed not getting Jack’s notes in time to read them before today’s class.  (Although they’re there now, after the site was down for the previous two days). One of the themes in Jack’s notes for … Continue reading

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A Walk on the Wild Side

It’s very windy in Albuquerque today.  Probably gusts of 40-50 mph, but under an unbroken blue sky.  It was a good day to take a walk and attend to sound.   The sound of the wind in the trees was … Continue reading

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Given together,

The field comes alive in: Bruce’s awareness of how space is permeated by energy and feeling, like a hologram that can’t be grasped . . . David’s winding path where getting older provides a season box seat on the playing field … Continue reading

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Knowing, Being Known

“The whole can become knowledgeable.”  DTS 41 Perhaps because the invitation of eknosis–to know inwardly and outwardly in a single moment–seems “beyond” me, I find it very helpful to feel that “I” might have an ally in this endeavor. The … Continue reading

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“Thank you, thank you, thank you

Ken’s poem really captures for me the stream of life which each of us keeps trying to make sense of: Afternoon turns up once more, A mirror of the morning,     credit cards spilled from a wallet, documents I failed … Continue reading

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Nourishing Breath–guided meditation with Hayward

I think that Hayward has discovered a way to incorporate the  TSK vision within a mindfulness-of-breath practice that expresses appreciation for our embodiment in space.  He has developed a fresh use of language that combines the TSK vision with a wide field of the concerns and … Continue reading

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Knowing Not-Knowing.

“Both ordinary knowing and its correlate ‘not-knowing’ can be thawed or cultivated to yield this luminescent quality.”  TSK, 281. Does this imply that just as there are an ordinary and a higher knowing, there are also an ordinary and a … Continue reading

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Questions/Comments—while reading Inside Knowledge

In the light of the aspiration to share the TSK vision with a wider body of readers and students, I found myself wondering why other visions can attract a wider group of adherents. Last Thursday I sat in on a … Continue reading

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