Author Archives: Caroline Sherwood

Travelling Light

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Caroline Sherwood
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The Alchemy of TSK

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Caroline Sherwood

It seems that to trap the word in the confines of its etymology is to constrict the vastness and subtleties of its meanings. Wikipedia’s take on it might be of interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy The simple derivation from the Oxford dictionary is this: late … Continue reading →

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Space Conversation

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Caroline Sherwood

            As a walkaround for this week, continue the practice we did during the phone call: appreciation of each moment of experience (including encounters with the surrounding world) as also involving the act of experiencing. Does bringing … Continue reading →

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T S Eliot

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

We mentioned the poetry of T S Eliot in relation to Time in the last class of Session 8. Here is the first stanza of ‘Burnt Norton’ (one of the Four Quartets) Time present and time past Are both perhaps … Continue reading →

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The Story of Your Life

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

Looks like a film of the Ted Chiang story is planned for release in 2016: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life  

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The Edge of Time

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

Hameed Ali (A H Almaas) speaking about Time at the Science and Non-Duality Conference http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/54780188    

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Impossibility

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

Book that some of us might find interesting: http://darrylslibrary.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/impossibility-by-john-d-barrow/  

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Intimacy as the basis for Compassion [TSK Ex 25]

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

‘You are me in another time.’ Barry Long TSK does not directly teach the practice of love or compassion toward others. However, once the narrowness of the positions we hold drops away, we find that we interact more easily with others, … Continue reading →

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How can we ‘restore to words the energy and aliveness of time’?

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

In last week’s orientation Jack asked us the title question and in today’s class he referred to the fact that a temporal order is established every time we speak (or write?) due to the structures inherent in language. What a … Continue reading →

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Silent Church

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Wednesday 24 September 2014 ,, Marriage of Sound and Breath meets a Confluence of Different Timings In this ‘silent’ church there is as rich a soundscape as I could hope for anywhere. Each … Continue reading →

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