Category Archives: uncatagorized

Jack, I really like your suggestion this week that appreciation can be a key means of turning our focus to light, and also the suggestion from last week’s reading that we can “invite light as source by sinking ‘beneath’ the … Continue reading →

First, I want to say “thank you”, to all in this TSK-Group, to you, Jack, and to Tarthang Tulku Rimpoche. Its a big gift to give Not-Buddhist-People a signpost to “light”. The TSK vision seems to me a deep and vast … Continue reading →

Marcia asks whether we can understand inquiry as melting substance back into light. This is very well put. The same holds for darkeness. What it suggests is that we find light by turning toward darkness and substance and then asking … Continue reading →

We have come to the last week of this short course on the theme of light. I am grateful to all of you for your participation. I have found for myself great appreciation for the light and delightful dimension of experience. … Continue reading →

I find Chapter 20 of DTS evokes for me the times in my life when I have felt most despairing and also how at my lowest point something healing would intervene.  The description of being imprisioned in hopelessness (“As thought stumbles … Continue reading →

In the last post I told about my black heart, a heart with a black wall , made out of rocks of a volcano. In a meditation-workshop (Heart-Prayer of the Greec Orthodox Christians, in German: “Herzensgebet”) there was an exercise … Continue reading →

‘Darkness that reduces light to substance’ makes sense for me, in my daily experience, when I think of moments when, in the act of living them I tend to ‘close’ their potential openness in ready, particular and personal ‘meanings’ and … Continue reading →

For a few weeks now, we’ve been looking at the theme of light and darkness: light in dark, or not. The short reading for this week suggests that the difference is one of intention or aspiration. You may find that … Continue reading →