Category Archives: General TSK Discussions

Knowledge by the Knower of the Logos

I wrote quite a long piece in response to listening twice to Jack reading KTS Chap.94 (414-417), but I see that somehow it didn’t get posted. (Must have pressed the wrong button). Unfortunately I didn’t save handwritten or typed version. … Continue reading

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Are ‘acts of positioning’ the same as ‘timed-out meanings’?

It seems to me that at one level taking a position, perhaps a perspective, is our ordinary way of dealing with the intent to fulfill any desire, even the desire for meaning… Any ordinary intention, any concern or desire—even the … Continue reading

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Embodying the Logos

Session 6, Assignment for Week 4. Listening twice to Jack’s recording of the KTS chapter, “Knowledge by the Knower of the Logos”, which I had previously read on my own, I found I had to read it yet again.  What … Continue reading

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Acts of Positioning

Session 6, Assignment for Week 3. Jack asked “Are acts of positioning the same as Timed-out Meanings?” A distinction seems indicated between attention to what is happening in the present (looked at as gestures witnessed from within) and a focus … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings

A while ago I wrote about my experience with TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings, an exercise I’ve worked with numerous times over the years. …while watching young birds dancing between green leaves in tree branches, thinking “That too … Continue reading

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Cornel West: Examined Life

Thank you, Jack, for the link to the delicious, vibrant, intelligent, humorous, ‘funky’ Cornel West interview-in-transit. What a delight! Contemplating what he says about the ‘romantic’ quest for ‘wholeness’ and your comment about that in the orientation: He seems to be … Continue reading

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I Know the Answer

I was wondering about doing a practice that the expected results are already known. We can take the exercise 26 on the book Time Space and Knowledge, for example. The comments and the unfolding of the exercise are known by … Continue reading

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Positions & Read-outs

Does having to transcend meanings, speculations and visions – even those that are timed-out, go against viewing positions as act of positioning? Are the acts of positioning the same as time-out meaning? All of this can be seen as different … Continue reading

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SPACE ARISING – DTS Ex. 10 & 9

I’ve long had a fascination with internal space, it progressed from youthful wonder to a gradual fixation or goal as I grew older, a search for spiritual depth. Reminds me of when I was a boy looking over the side … Continue reading

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Do you know the difference?

Hallo everyone, I have a question connected to the assignment, Jack gave for this week. What is the difference between a “meaning” and a “timed-out meaning”?

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