Category Archives: uncatagorized

Thanks, Arthur for your description of your experiences with the various parts of Ex. 9. This seems to me very much in keeping with the kinds of insights the exercise aims to invite. And your decision to do the practice of … Continue reading →

Gaynor aks quite reasonably about whether the discussion in Unit 16 confuses feeling and emotion. If you look at the feeling-related exercises in LOK (especially Ex. 36), you will see that ‘feelings’ are presented very much in the Buddhist sense: … Continue reading →

I apologize for not having logged in for several days, and especially for not answering your specific question, Gaynor. I’ve been traveling, but head back tomorrow. Once I am back in my burrow, I’ll be able to focus in more.  Jack

Generating Space – Like David, I have been practising these exercises while gazing out into the trees in my garden. At a distance borders can seem strong. Yet as I approach I can see, or sometimes simply sense, the permeability … Continue reading →

Jack, your remark about “wide-awake” relieves me, it´s true, I mustn´t be wide-awake always and every time. In the moment I feel (in my perception) a little reduced, like through a filter. After reading the “post” I decided: I do … Continue reading →

Practice with the five senses indeed gives space more depth – it seems to me a natural process, as if it can´t be in reverse. And with “thinking” in C it was confusing: when I tried to dress a thought … Continue reading →

Hi, panic is past, but not forgotten. Medicine has its expected effect. Yes, I still planning to attend the retreat, and I´m now optimistically. Beforehand a repeated experience: either I come into the exercise very quick or not – and … Continue reading →

Jack, Could you please clarify a point for me about the practice LOK 41 – Field of Feeling?  The words in LOK outlining the practice talk about ‘Feeling’ and ‘Feelings’. In your comments about the practice on p.84 of When … Continue reading →

Gaynor and David both seem to explore in an effective way how the conventional temporal structure unfolds. Emotions and stories make linear temporality possible, and linear temporality in turn is what supports emotions and stories. The two go together. And underneath that … Continue reading →

LOK 13 – Inventing the past – my memories of the past are incredibly charged with connections, ramifications, emotions. It seems to be because of such a ‘feeling’ element that memories get stored in my memory bank. As a result, … Continue reading →