Author Archives: Eliana Kalaf

Approaching Great Time

In Great Time, intimacy simply is, offering knowingness. This intimacy cannot be brought to our experience at will. It is a state of pure “allowingness”. As if the meaning emerged without any barrier, free of judgments and preconceptions. The prevailing … Continue reading

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The Quest for “Zero”

It came to my mind the Big Bang, the great explosion that gave rise to our universe, the zero point of our universe. Nobody could see the explosion, only the echoes of its occurrence. Scientists affirm that there was this … Continue reading

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Potential Fulfilled

We might sense the potential for a moment before this moment is caught up in the ‘logos’ of the ‘order’. This potential is sensed as pure space. In this space, Being can take occupancy. The character of existence not conditioned … Continue reading

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Matisse and TSK

Creation is no longer a unique event that takes place at the beginning of time, or else through the inspiration of a mysterious force. Instead, as the momentum of ‘time’ it is freely accessible in each interaction. KTS 78 TSK … Continue reading

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A Sense of Caring

To guard against  self-deception, it is important to balance the sense of caring and the feeling of immediacy it can bring with insight into the functioning of conventional temporality. One way to cultivate such insight is to review and reflect … Continue reading

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Gravity & Lightness

To cultivate playfulness of mind is to move from this self-imposed gravity toward light, from the grave to the light-hearted. There is nothing mysterious in this movement; on the conventional level, it comes about simply through relaxing the rigid structures … Continue reading

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Whispered Intimacy

Much has been said about mindfulness. Buddhist practitioners have in mindfulness a valuable tool, but not alone. In the wonderful book of Ken McLeod “Wake Up to Your Life – Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention” there is a very … Continue reading

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Forgetting the Name

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.” – Robert Irwin “Only he who simply abandons himself to the object of his perception will experience it aesthetically.” — Erwin Panofsky These phases from the CCI website inspired me … Continue reading

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Full Participation

It seems that “the known world is experienced by the self, which owns its experience. For this basic structure to work, the self must adopt a specific position that puts it outside experience… As an ‘outsider’, the self occupies the … Continue reading

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Time and Intimacy

Do people share their time or are already in their own time? This question reminded me of a situation in which I experienced some days ago. I was walking to the supermarket. It was about noon, it was a sunny … Continue reading

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