Category Archives: uncatagorized

I was resting on a bike-tour, sitting in front of the river Rhine, reading our text and startint with the exercise 20. I was focused on seeing, saw the tremendous quantity of water and was very busy with that what … Continue reading →

 It occurred to me that, in this country anyway, we’ve been hearing a lot about “pyramid schemes“. I was thinking of the parallel between such a scheme and ‘single minded knowing‘. The pyramid scheme is based on the impossible promise of … Continue reading →

Following up on Jack’s invitation, here’s a statement and a question: we tend to wait for the future, at the expense of living our lives in our own time (Waiting for the Second Coming, Waiting for Godot). The alternative we have … Continue reading →

Hello Everyone: This afternoon as I red this week’s reading (Conducting Temporal Sameness), I was in awe by the accuracy and the clarity of the language used, describing the way (not knowingly) I have been conducting most of my life. … Continue reading →

I often go back to the question at DTS page 112: Without the usual structures of from and to that accompany linear temporality, we may well not know how to proceed: where to go …Why feel compelled to go anywhere … Continue reading →

Reading the sad story of how we helplessly, hopelessly conduct a dreary sameness forward, two lighter thoughts came to the rescue this morning: 1/ the strange statement in an earlier chapter that we contact the dynamic of time from inside … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening there was an ad on TV in which ordinary-seeming people were proclaiming how wrong-headed it would be to tax domestic exploration for gas and oil.  That would hurt ordinary people like us.  I wasn’t really paying much attention, … Continue reading →

I’ve appreciated the posts this week. They show something of the ways you (we grapple) with our not-knowing and finds ways to penetrate it. Karin is right to point to the “little openings in the background” that we may not … Continue reading →

I meditated paying with an openness to seeing into the phenomenon of ‘attention.’ It was really interesting how unnerving it was to shine a light on this part of mental life that works in the wings, usually. First I was … Continue reading →