Category Archives: General TSK Discussions

Awareness as a Reflective Surface – TSK Ex 29

Posted on August 21, 2014 by David Filippone

To some friends, I described a night out and showed some pictures of us enjoying wine and cigars. A seemingly harmless, night out, some fun, etc. So later, I was looking back on this evening, a little like savoring certain … Continue reading →

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A Thought of Beauty

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Eliana Kalaf

“The lower space we live in is not a solid and continuous place. It changes, becoming more or less open, with each single thought.” TSK 244. This quote also raises a separate but deeply important question: is each thought its … Continue reading →

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The opening and closing of the self

Posted on August 15, 2014 by John Brossard

TSK Exercise 32 is a beginning of a process that can deepen and expand in unimaginable ways. Unimaginable in the sense of opening new capacity to sense, to know, beyond the logos of ordinary reality. Light as a knowing capacity, … Continue reading →

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HELP! – Logos, read-out, self…….

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Klaus Noldes

Logos, read-out, self and so on….helpful ideas, but I started to forget, that the stories we tell about them are stories and stories are an indication that a lower knowledge is active.   After all there is still the blue … Continue reading →

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Pervading all appearance

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

It’s interesting that what I consider was the key remark in the discussion in the last class about what knowing pervades hasn’t found its way into the ‘chat notes’ (probably because it was spoken, rather than typed into the chat box). The discussion … Continue reading →

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Returning again and again to the Texts themselves

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

Jack mentioned in the last class (week 5, session six) that it was advisable to balance the practice of the exercises with the reading of the texts, and that some people preferred to ‘specialise’ in one or the other, but … Continue reading →

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Becoming a Mirror for a Day

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

TSK Ex 29: Awareness as a Reflective Surface (some glimpses) Gratitude to the Grace which allows the Time to become a mirror for a day. Dissolving into the shininess of reflection itself A silent stream of tears bears witness to … Continue reading →

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Nanu Nanu – a Prayer to Read Aloud

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Caroline Sherwood

Gone to space – the one who gave us Mork and Mindy A golden cockerel atop a village church proclaims his passing A slick of tears bathes my cells all day It feels as though I’ve lost a brother I … Continue reading →

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The Continuum of Knowledge

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Eliana Kalaf

We can do more than criticize ‘lower knowledge’. We can come to see it as ‘lower knowledge’. This simple shift in emphasis to the knowledge side has great importance… it provides a natural continuum of ‘knowing’, linking lower to higher … Continue reading →

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Moving to Higher Knowledge

Posted on August 9, 2014 by John Brossard

Moving to higher knowledge, a knowing not centered in the self, seems to require an awakening and a letting go. As the self initially stretches to allow for ways of knowing that found it, permeate it, and transcend it, it … Continue reading →

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