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All general discussion for Creative Inquiry and TSK.

Post-It Man Strikes Again

On the eighth day Adam and Eve invented Post- It’s (3″ x 3″ yellow pieces of paper with a sticky edge) and they called them “good”.  From thenceforth if anything quacked like a duck and walked like a duck, they … Continue reading

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Why Not Explain

Explanations tend to be given within the prevailing (conventional) paradigm. Continue reading

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Direct experience and the three times

Jack emphasized, in going over the second full paragraph on Page 247, how it  urges us to remain within direct experience.  It  is also interesting that these few sentences invoke the Past, the Present, and the Future.  Specifically: A way … Continue reading

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The primacy of awareness

In doing the exercise suggested in last weeks class, it appeared that there was a  primacy of awareness, a space “in which” content existed…..Upon further reflection it seems that experience is a “form of” awareness, as though awareness is both … Continue reading

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The Way That Awareness Transfers

Be sensitive to the way that awareness transfers from one experience to the next, as it is recommended in Exercise 1,  seems to have the quality of light. The experience is somehow connected to the heart and the breath. How … Continue reading

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Thinking and Awareness

For the past several months I’ve been rereading the Skillful Means series alongside our TSK studies.  I appreciate how these two different approaches reinforce a shared concern with living with awareness and purpose.  This morning, on Page 42 of Mastering … Continue reading

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journal entery

  Journling entry…after meditation sitting practice…            2-12-2011 Reading sentence by sentence and following the recipe as it is prescribed…using  The Joy of Being, page 44: Awakening Feelings…starting the sitting meditation practice… Following the instruction and lingering after each sentence, to … Continue reading

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  Journling entry…after meditation sitting practice…            2-12-2011  Reading sentence by sentence and following the recipe as it is prescribed…using  The Joy of Being, page 44: Awakening Feelings…starting the sitting meditation practice…  Following the instruction and lingering after each sentence, to … Continue reading

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Thinking and Thought

I’ve enjoyed returning to this inquiry into the nature of thought.  Here’s my phenomenological report so far: This morning, watching thinking as it arose, I noticed that “thought” most often shows up for me in two forms:  either as an … Continue reading

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Think of an orange ball…

Assume a thought can be an image, for this exercise. Think of an orange ball. Work with an image of an orange ball or sphere. Bring to mind this image, at different times during the day. Approach the orange ball … Continue reading

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