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.

A Stroke of Insight

I mentioned this video in the class this morning.  Jack’s remark–that it isn’t all that helpful to reduce TSK to some other and particular perspective–is well taken.  And it’s true that I have my own particular interest in the subject of … Continue reading

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Tip of the Field Communique

Since appearance never takes form, each appearance—inseparable from space—fills the whole of space.  DTS 33 Every time I hear that appearance fills the whole of space I think: I don’t understand but I guess it has something to do with … Continue reading

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Echoes of Silence.

Water Fish, Wind Bird, and Gaia are ancient beings who have inhabited Planet Earth from very early times.  Gaia (who watches over the land and all that grows upon it), Wind Bird (who fills the sky and bringing breath to … Continue reading

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Looking Both Ways before Crossing the Field

Jack suggested we respond to some questions raised in When It Rains regarding whether the guided program we are following is subject to several of the limitations which the TSK vision examines.  Does the WIR ‘structure’ itself limit the potential … Continue reading

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Knowing as an Act of Appreciation

Since the Field Communique gives each entity as communicated, knowledge of what appears is given together with what appears. Knowledge of appearance is inseparable from appearance.”  Dynamics of Time and Space. Page 18 Looking out my window as dawn slips … Continue reading

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Be Here Now

Following up on Jack’s suggestion to look at the list of conventional views (listed on TSK 83-85) and reflect on how they differ from the TSK vision—what stands out most for me is how the meditative phrase, “Be Here Now” … Continue reading

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TSK, “Be Here Now”

Following up on Jack’s suggestion to look at the list of conventional views (listed on TSK 83-85) and reflect on how they differ from the TSK vision—what stands out most for me is how the meditative phrase, “Be Here Now” … Continue reading

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Momentous Moments have Momentum

I have never noticed previously that ‘momentum’ is based on the word “moment”. This must correspond to the idea that ‘momentum’ is a movement in time, only noticeable as a progression over a span of ‘moments’. The word ‘momentous’ denotes … Continue reading

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“Story of Your Life and Others”—by Ted Chiang

Ted Chiang’s story, which Jack recommended, is an exploration of a TSK-kind of experience in which an alien language expresses a non-linear and non-sequential relationship to time.  Utterance is a kind of calligraphy in which the first brush stroke already … Continue reading

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Glowing Journey in Time.

I have felt the pull of sequential time strongly in the past two days, worrying about my kids in a framework (logos) that assumes dire consequences for current behaviour. Working with LoK exercise 32 & 33 revealed in a surprising … Continue reading

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