Category Archives: TSK online program 2007-2008

Moving forward

Gaynor asked about whether I plan to continue with Part Two of this Study Program (Units 19-36). I had not been planning to. The thing is that not many people have stuck it out. As you know, there are only about … Continue reading

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The last week: Unit 18

We are only allowing one week for this unit. That is fairly arbitrary: it was so we could finish in the amount of time originally planned for the program, more or less. Everything in this unit can be understood in … Continue reading

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Transcendence of Being Cross

So there’s at least two of you who had resistance come up in doing this exercise, and who felt cross (‘troetzig’, in German?) with the exercise. It may come from not being sure what to do. It may also have … Continue reading

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Unit 17 Pointings and confusions

I had difficulty understanding what is going on in TSK 26 – Transcendence of Pointings. All I could derive is that it is suggesting that all matter, including our concepts of mind and body, are actually uncertain/subjective. I can go … Continue reading

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Each ‘thing’ is related . . . Is that the point?

I take the title of this post from Arthur’s message: “there is not one thing related to another”. Why? Because each thing is related with every thing.  No need to worry about simplifying the exercise. Just keep in mind that … Continue reading

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Ex. Ballooning

I don’t know in which Ex. (48 or 47) this picture has been emerging.The crucial point is, I must hold on a distant view. In LOK Ex. 47 (reflecting on my life) I can’t say “this is more importent than … Continue reading

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Transcendence of Pointings

Starting with the exercise I noticed: these interactions tilting ( kippen) “indiscriminate” from mind-thought perception to emotion-body perception (or from mind-thought perception to another mind-thought perception. But sooner or later there is an interaction.         I felt my back against the chair … Continue reading

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Transcendence of Pointings at an Everyday Level

We are in the middle of Unit 17, and are allowing ourselves only one week for Unit 18. So we are just about at the end! Thank you everyone for staying with this. My own sense is that it has … Continue reading

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Unit 17 – TSK Ex. 25 & TSK Ex. 26; ‘Intimacy’, and ‘Transcendence of Pointings’

I was toying with TSK Exercise 25 – Intimacy, while watching young birds dancing between green leaves in tree branches, thinking “That too is ‘I’,” and in doing so, the focus that I was holding seemed to expand, encompassing much … Continue reading

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About read-outs

Arthur says there is no good German translation for read-out, leaving him uncertain what is meant. I thought this might be of general interest for people. The German translation of TSK uses the term “Anzeige” as a translation for “read-out,” … Continue reading

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