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.

Can TSK Inspire Creativity?

“Internally, however, rhythm comes ‘before’ the ‘logos’, whirling the points of measured time and space into being, ‘establishing’ the ‘logos’ and its ‘order.  ‘Points’ express the rhythm through which they arise and which sustains them.  First they emerge from the … Continue reading

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Peas on a Plate, Leaves on a Tree.

Following up on the image of how peas on a plate merge in our perception as one overall phenomenon, not invoking any interest to look further.  Life is full of such summary identifications, including the projection of dismissive labels applied … Continue reading

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Intention, appreciation, inquiry and mindfulness.

Does a connection exist between mindfulness and TSK’s exploration of the underlying dynamic of time? Mindfulness ‘instills’ an awareness of the present.  If our awareness is just of the objects, thoughts and phenomena that are of interest to the self, … Continue reading

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Mandala Gardens

(From Mandala Gardens, pages 47—51) If we are willing to free our intelligence and refine our minds, our actions will become pure and free of mistakes. An intuitive sense of knowledge begins to emerge, a body of knowledge arises. We … Continue reading

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The nose knows.

I have a friend who paints with his mouth because he is a quadraplegic.  I think this jungle artist is in the running for best painter lacking the use of a prehensile thumb:   https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=794637360575239

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Flowing Both Ways

Years ago it was a wonderful discovery to have revealed to me—during a retreat at the Nyingma Institute—that the senses are two way channels.  This deepened my experience, and to this day, walking under a tree whose branches are singing … Continue reading

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Bystander and Outsider

Reflecting on the last paragraph on page 25 of KTS, the following thought arose: in the model of a “Bystander-self experiencing outsider-world” there is no insider; at least in the experience of the self.  The word “bystander” is most commonly … Continue reading

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Memories are seeds that have been planted

Reflecting on the practice presented on SDTS Page 82, about the different feels of remembered past experiences and of imaginings that never happened, the ration of “16” came to mind. Perhaps an imagined image that leads nowhere is like the … Continue reading

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Out of the Ordinary

Picking up on Jack’s point: that “out of the ordinary” indicates point of origin as well as destination, I thought of another familiar phrase:        Departing the familiar. Sitting in a railway carriage as it pulls out from … Continue reading

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Embodying the Logos

Session 6, Assignment for Week 4. Listening twice to Jack’s recording of the KTS chapter, “Knowledge by the Knower of the Logos”, which I had previously read on my own, I found I had to read it yet again.  What … Continue reading

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