Category Archives: TSK online program 2007-2008

Hi, althought I run after our readings, I want to write something I experienced. I was nearly a week off, walking at whitsun. And after, when I was back and read “Week 5- Light Transmission of Knowledge ( especially paragraph … Continue reading →

Okay, I took that title from last week’s reading. But at this point, I encourage you to read lightly, to read around, to “activate receptivity” to light. The posts about language have made me sensitive to it in our reading. … Continue reading →

Marcia in her comment on David’s post suggests that the language of the TSK books can itself invoke light. That seems right to me. The Western philosopher Heidegger wrote once (roughly) that the task of philosophy was to go down … Continue reading →

I sat this morning before the sun rose with no purpose other than to sit without nodding off. In the middle of the silence, a calm slowly dawned, like diminishing shadows in a valley. I came to a perspective where … Continue reading →

The chapters from DTS that we start to work with this week offer the most sustained discussion of light in the body of TSK books, so we want to take our time. The reading goes only to the top of … Continue reading →

Marcia continues a previous comment, to which I responded in a post. She says (and so does Peter in a post) that these things are hard to put in words. It’s true, but words can also help. Marcia, I think … Continue reading →

I want to write, but I don´t know what to write. The experiences don´t fit to language. In usual words I should say: there is too much in a mess. In Germany we have spring, very unusual: many days with … Continue reading →

Among the questions on Page xxxvii of SDTS is: “(can we) Express the meaning of experience?”  I am reminded of a claim made by George Santayana that I read decades ago, in which he says that the beauty of Plato’s … Continue reading →

I’m responding with a fresh post to Marcia’s comment. She wrote: As I understand after practicing… When we practice meditation, or mindfulness, we feel that our scattered mind are suddenly called back again in it’s wholeness and all our different … Continue reading →