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All general discussion for Creative Inquiry and TSK.

Response Readiness

Tarthang Tulku writes about an “alert poised quality, a kind of expectancy or readiness” before the self responds. In last Sundays  phone conference, Jack calls this a “readiness to respond”. Since the TSK vision is not limited to a linear … Continue reading

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I love the self

Through last week’s practices and yesterday’s phone discussion, I experienced a great appreciation for the self: Within our species, the self is universal; we all operate the same way and that gives us connection, understanding and empathy. We can consciously … Continue reading

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Sometimes Yes is the right answer

Part of my reason for posting this morning is to see if I can do it.  My last post required Kathleen’s intervention. I was interested to see the comment from “Lois S”, expressing the euphoria that can come from saying … Continue reading

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The Self Takes Us Over

I’ve been challenging myself, that is, saying ‘no’ to different things I want — to see how that feels.  The obvious thing I noticed was that giving in to the desire, or saying ‘yes’ to it happened only once, but … Continue reading

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The self in Question first week reading

This is where the experience is entered

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This week’s exercises (asking who is doing, and saying “No” to the doing) evoke a question: as Karin and Roger also describe, a lot of daily activities seem to proceed automatically, without either the need for or the apparent presence of … Continue reading

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Comment from Soudabeh(that went astray)

Dear Michael: Thank you for your sharing. I am currently in a situation that if it was a couple of years ago, I would be very scared… and big time stressed out…, but due to the practices and the teachings … Continue reading

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a ‘no stories’ story

When I read this on pg 116 of the conducting temporal sameness chapter, I thought of Rinpoche during Vajra temple construction, stepping between two pillars of the unfinished temple, and loudly saying:  “this is my drama”.  Telling a story that … Continue reading

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Jury Duty

DTS pg 117 from one single thought almost from one single word we can conduct the whole. The above line was my favorite from all the readings so far.  I would like to cut the word “can” from it and … Continue reading

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A Question…

I think it’s clear in the readings that the term ‘not-knowing’ is at least in one sense being used to refer to the unknown that surrounds the known, but what I sometimes get fuzzy in my understanding is, is ‘not-knowing’ … Continue reading

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