Author Archives: Eliana Kalaf

Shared Time?

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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A Thought of Beauty

“The lower space we live in is not a solid and continuous place. It changes, becoming more or less open, with each single thought.” TSK 244. This quote also raises a separate but deeply important question: is each thought its … Continue reading

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The Continuum of Knowledge

We can do more than criticize ‘lower knowledge’. We can come to see it as ‘lower knowledge’. This simple shift in emphasis to the knowledge side has great importance… it provides a natural continuum of ‘knowing’, linking lower to higher … Continue reading

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The Door to Not Knowing

When a goal orientation prevails, and ‘cognition’ is put to the use of the ‘self’, ‘cognition’ is typically directed toward ‘explanations’ that are put forward to account for the results of observation in terms of the established ‘order’. Explanations indicate … Continue reading

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I Know the Answer

I was wondering about doing a practice that the expected results are already known. We can take the exercise 26 on the book Time Space and Knowledge, for example. The comments and the unfolding of the exercise are known by … Continue reading

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Positions & Read-outs

Does having to transcend meanings, speculations and visions – even those that are timed-out, go against viewing positions as act of positioning? Are the acts of positioning the same as time-out meaning? All of this can be seen as different … Continue reading

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Appearances in Space

Our ordinary focus on the content of experience as it arises in time is something like focusing on the air bubbles that form within a rushing stream of water… DTS 277 However, we can go beyond the fascination the bubbles … Continue reading

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Open Invitation

TSK vision can naturally accommodate  every alternative, because it has no position to defend or point to make. It is an open invitation to investigate, through careful analysis, the mechanism of the arising of appearances and the dynamic of their … Continue reading

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Space as Witness

What keep us from engaging the dynamic of time? The reading points toward the sense of self, but there is other obstacle worthy of note: concentration. If there is not focus it is difficult to pay attention to anything, to … Continue reading

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Think about this

I was reading a Buddhist book written by a westerner and I found some interesting reflections about time that I would like to share with you. The writer points to the subjective nature of time. These are the exact words: … Continue reading

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