Category Archives: TSK online program 2007-2008

I found myself in practice this morning with a phrase from Milarepa dwelling in my mind: In the beginning, nothing comes; In the middle nothing stays; In the end nothing goes. Having looked it up (The Hundred Thousand Songs of … Continue reading →

DTS chapter 9 goes over some of the same material as the LOK chapters, but seems to me unusually clear on how we are “stuck” in the present, with no access to past or future. I want to focus on … Continue reading →

Hi all, Like Michael, I enjoyed the last few posts (including his!). The image of riding on a wave is good, and somehow that image of “surfing” comes up often: it seems to capture something of the sense of balance … Continue reading →

Hi, I really appreciated the experiential vividness of the last three posts (Arthur, David, Marcia).  My own experience of the exercise in the last two paragraphs of DTS 99 is helping me to understand the recent readings.  In particular, the … Continue reading →

Hi, I started with this”more basic point” of the last paragraph of the introduction for the seventh week. Just with first reading arises joy. As if it is a sudden discovery. Like: spring´s awakening. The more thinking was: here arises … Continue reading →

Before getting asleep or before fully awakening… are those moments between moments? There is less solidity, the known world is not there… there’s a kind of ‘blank’ from which all colors can come. Is this a moment between (or within) … Continue reading →

I love the image (LOK p. 181) of the self as joining the march of objective, linear time like a pedestrian caught up in a parade. But of course, it is not comic. Heidegger said something similar when he wrote … Continue reading →

Michael, I like your image of a house of mirrors that disappears when we find the door that lets us out. At the same time, I think it’s fair to say that there is no ‘outside.’ We are ‘inside’ linear … Continue reading →