Author Archives: Caroline Sherwood

Layers of story

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Caroline Sherwood

Practising DTS 11: ‘Telling Stories this morning’ – I notice the layers of story under the surface stories, less well-defined, more fluid. They remind me of the stories of dreams when sleeping. Releasing the energy in both remains a mystery … Continue reading →

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Future Inspiration at the Edge of Time

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Caroline Sherwood

Walking to the shops and during shopping, I attempted to rest awareness at the arising of the future. The first thing I noticed was that ‘I’ was not there (at least not in the usual/habitual sense that I feel myself … Continue reading →

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Homework: A time of being truly alive

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Caroline Sherwood

It is July 2009 in a village hall in Somerset, SW England: my Ballroom Dancing Bronze medal exam: Time concertina-ed; no more time – this is it. One chance only. Everything focused, second to second, in precision and flow. Wholehearted … Continue reading →

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Diving into time

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Caroline Sherwood

I notice that my experience of this exercise is spatial (not temporal). When I go into the future of a moment, I move to the right, and to the left when entering the past. Into the present dimension I experience … Continue reading →

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Time within time

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Caroline Sherwood

Inspired by Jack’s reference to thoughts and daydreams, I found myself within a past-centred thought sequence, followed by a future-oriented one and began to pay attention to the ppf stucture of each moment within the stream of memories and future … Continue reading →

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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Caroline Sherwood

If we could see the future of what we are thinking, saying and doing today, would we change what we are thinking, saying and doing? Mindful of Aryadeva pointing out that what results from a given moment is determined by … Continue reading →

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Please can someone clarify

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Caroline Sherwood

Existence is responsible for its own appearance is the last sentence of the Commentary for our set exercise of ‘Lineage of Appearances’ (KTS page 240). Nothing happens inside me when I read this sentence: I don’t get it. It seems … Continue reading →

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traditional/new…same/different

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Caroline Sherwood

On page 239 of Knowledge of Time and Space, Rinpoche writes: Without the object, there is no going to the ‘beyond’ of space; without space there is no coming to the ‘here’ of appearance. Is this the same as the … Continue reading →

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Magic Meal, or the Temporal Lineages of a Simple Supper

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Caroline Sherwood

Years ago I wrote a meditation book for children in which one of the exercises, Magic Meal, invited its readers to consider (among other things) that in eating a meal, they were actually and in fact, eating starlight. Considering temporal … Continue reading →

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Aryadeva: Refuting Truly Existent Time

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Caroline Sherwood

I was really interested that Jack suddenly told us those two stories about Aryadeva in Class 3 today. They spoke very strongly to me in communicating how this exploration of time has such deep bearing on how we live our … Continue reading →

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