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.

Corroboration from the womb of Nature.

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Michael Gray

Is the following excerpt from a TSK book?  If so, which one? “But it is not only the past that is deadened; the present, too, is nearly killed. Why?  In a linear view of time, the present is not an … Continue reading →

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Not Knowing as Source

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Michael Gray

I find that TSK feels most valuable when it connects with concerns of daily life. An interesting instance of this arose in connection with a potential novel I started last year but which—because I did “not know” how to proceed– … Continue reading →

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Noticing Space

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Michael Gray

I appreciated the article by Ajahn Sumedho—from Tricyle, Fall 1995—that Jack posted. Not only is it a wonderful appreciation of spaciousness which is remarkably consonant with the TSK vision, but it tells its own story independently of the TSK vision.  … Continue reading →

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Meaning without substantiality?

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Michael Gray

Jack asked if giving up our commitment to the proclamations of ordinary viewpoints means we will also give up what we view as meaningful—since meaningfulness is itself a kind of proclamation. This seems to be a paradox.  How can we … Continue reading →

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Where am I, what am I doing?

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Michael Gray

“We might say that zero can allow for sixteen directions, points that we could mark out on its circumference and note as potential directions for movement.  It is as though we had found sixteen different “here’s” with the “here”.  SDTS … Continue reading →

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Inside Knowledge.

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Michael Gray

Over the past week, I’ve been venturing inside the new TSK book, “Inside Knowledge”, and would like to share a passage that struck me this morning.  I would also like to say that I feel this new book provides a … Continue reading →

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I am Space

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Michael Gray

Jack asked, in passing, in this week’s orientation notes, which, if any, of the three spaces in the phrase “Space projecting space into space” “I am here” might be. The “16 points” seem to be a projection, since the “I” … Continue reading →

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Universal Unique

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Michael Gray

“Light encompassing makes light, until appearance arrives at the luminous round of the universal unique.”   DTS 230 Jack suggested we look up references to the phrase “universal unique” in Dynamics of Time and Space.  I found about ten places where … Continue reading →

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Zeroless Calling

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Michael Gray

“Space in its zeroless appearing allows substance to dissolve.”   DTS 45 I wonder if zero is like our entrance into the human world and the zeroless like our departure.  Birth, as seen by the family that welcomes a new arrival, … Continue reading →

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Space as a Focus of Concern

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Michael Gray

If appearance is an echo of itself, which should I focus on: the appearance or its echo?  In pondering this conundrum, it occurred to me that the notion of something being an echo of itself has a similar feel to … Continue reading →

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