Author Archives: Eliana Kalaf

Witnessing Reality

While I was walking to the supermarket I used my awareness like a radar to investigate what makes reality real. Walking with strong steps, feeling, remembering the list of things I had to buy. Seeing how important is awareness, and … Continue reading

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No Story Telling – Session 3 Assignment 2 – part 2

A self that is no longer assigned the job of providing continuity. What does this mean actually? I imagined myself being in the world without the references of the self. Waking up in the morning and following a predetermined routine: … Continue reading

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Moments of Knowledge – Session 3 Assignment 2 – part 1

Moments of anger are common in our experience when things doesn´t flow like they should. It is like to surf in a smooth and flowing wave and all of a sudden a rock appears and the flux is interrupted abruptly. … Continue reading

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Opening Awareness – assignment

The practice for this week invites to investigate the movement of time from moment to moment in my experience. When I listen to a continuous sound as it took place in one moment I have to focus my awareness, to … Continue reading

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Why Study TSK?

TSK presents so many challenges that we can sometimes wonder why we study it. For me it is about freedom. I can begin asking if I am really free. I can ask if things in my life are flowing smoothly, … Continue reading

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Melting Concepts

I was, let´s say, instigated by the fundamental challenge described in the Orientation paper for week 6: “No matter what insights you may have, you are still stuck in the position of being the one who knows, and this means … Continue reading

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Tuning in – Assignment of session 2 week 5

See if you can be aware of what is immediately present without automatically locating that present in a “before-after causal nexus.” As a way into this practice, consider the suggestion in the text that in such encounters, both the knowing … Continue reading

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Reversing Temporal Structure – an experience

It is always easy to look back to the past bringing memories, feelings and commentaries. It is familiar and brings all the references I use in my life. The future is more elusive: it is a mixture of expectations and … Continue reading

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A Comment on the Dynamic of Time

Time´s rhythm engages a movement without movement. And it is in our hands to access the momentum of time with intimacy, thawing the frozen structures that the first level time takes as given. As they melt we can allow the … Continue reading

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Assignment Week 4 – Is Meditation a Trap in Lower Time?

The great meditative traditions of Tibet, with which I have more familiarity, have long recognized two major obstacles in this practice. One is the seduction of power and celestial pleasures. In this one the practitioner is still tied to the … Continue reading

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