Category Archives: General TSK Discussions

The nose knows.

I have a friend who paints with his mouth because he is a quadraplegic.  I think this jungle artist is in the running for best painter lacking the use of a prehensile thumb:   https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=794637360575239

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How can we ‘restore to words the energy and aliveness of time’?

In last week’s orientation Jack asked us the title question and in today’s class he referred to the fact that a temporal order is established every time we speak (or write?) due to the structures inherent in language. What a … Continue reading

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Flowing Both Ways

Years ago it was a wonderful discovery to have revealed to me—during a retreat at the Nyingma Institute—that the senses are two way channels.  This deepened my experience, and to this day, walking under a tree whose branches are singing … Continue reading

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Forgetting the Name

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.” – Robert Irwin “Only he who simply abandons himself to the object of his perception will experience it aesthetically.” — Erwin Panofsky These phases from the CCI website inspired me … Continue reading

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Bystander and Outsider

Reflecting on the last paragraph on page 25 of KTS, the following thought arose: in the model of a “Bystander-self experiencing outsider-world” there is no insider; at least in the experience of the self.  The word “bystander” is most commonly … Continue reading

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Silent Church

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Wednesday 24 September 2014 ,, Marriage of Sound and Breath meets a Confluence of Different Timings In this ‘silent’ church there is as rich a soundscape as I could hope for anywhere. Each … Continue reading

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Timebathing

[DTS Ex 13: Commanding Time] Each cell is shimmering with the shimmer of life Power releasing – the power that allows a leaf to uncurl; an acorn to become an oak; the mewling cub to grow into a splendid lion … Continue reading

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Full Participation

It seems that “the known world is experienced by the self, which owns its experience. For this basic structure to work, the self must adopt a specific position that puts it outside experience… As an ‘outsider’, the self occupies the … Continue reading

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Write about the last paragraph of KTS Ex. 25

It’s interesting how looking backwards on memory can clarify how time unfolds in the present. I found it wonderfully fascinating how a little 5 minute exercise of looking at a memory (and hours of reading and inquiry) opened the door … Continue reading

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Quantum Medicine and other matters

This conference is in Hawaii, but I thought some of you might like to know about it. It seems to me that this is the sort of thing at which TSK should be represented. Is this the right location for … Continue reading

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