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All general discussion for Creative Inquiry and TSK.

The Unnameable

In the brochure for the upcoming TSK Intensive Retreat it says, among other things (see link): http://www.creativeinquiry.org/develop/programs-and-events/classes-workshops-and-events/tsk-intensive-retreat/ “At present, we live in a world where our options have been set out in advance. We rely on fixed identities, solid objects, … Continue reading

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Your TSK questions answered here.

Q and A with Jack Petranker, Ken McKeon, and Tom Morse

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Picture an Orange Ball

Some of you may recall an exercise Jack gave us in a previous course in which students were asked to picture an orange ball. During the process of visualizing an orange ball we got to see directly, in our own … Continue reading

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The Prevailing Paradigm

We are born into a realm of thought with its prevailing paradigm. The conventional dualistic paradigm informs and forms us and we in turn perpetuate its way of knowing. So it seems we are the consequence of thoughts lineage and … Continue reading

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The prevailing paradigm

We are born into a realm of thought that has a prevailing order or paradigm. We are both informed by and perpetuate this way of knowing.  In this manner we transmit a way of knowing that appears to be our … Continue reading

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Thought forms space

In working with this chapter, it appears that thought makes space disappear and that thoughts reappear as space. Love it

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TSK Ex. 12, …when one thought fades and another arises

TSK Ex. 12, asks that we observe our thoughts for the moment when one thought fades and another arises, in order to discern that subtle transition, which involves the momentary availability of space that has the quality of openness free … Continue reading

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Practice 2.

I’ve been finding Jack’s second practice useful: “Let appearance appear in a way that preserves the insubstantiality of space.  In this way of appearing, substance is the appearance of substance.”  It’s interesting how these two sentences themselves don’t have subjects … Continue reading

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Zeroless space

Question: In (PP 44-45, DTS), we read: “In zeroless space, dimensions open up as though unzipped.  All is equally available everywhere, for every ‘where’, and each edge opens into the whole.  Even the edge of the edge opens.  We are … Continue reading

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A Poem that captures the current teachings…

Only Luminous Awareness I See …   In the market, in the Mosque—only Luminous Awareness I see. In the valley and on the mountain–only Luminous Awareness I see.   I have seen the Beloved beside me oft in tribulation; In … Continue reading

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