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Assignment Week 4 – Is Meditation a Trap in Lower Time?

The great meditative traditions of Tibet, with which I have more familiarity, have long recognized two major obstacles in this practice. One is the seduction of power and celestial pleasures. In this one the practitioner is still tied to the … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 18 & 19 Past Present Future Projections…

TSK Ex. 18 and 19, you will become more aware of how references to the past and future locate your present experience… will help to develop an increased awareness of the structure of ordinary time. With sufficient practice, this awareness … Continue reading

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TSK Ex 20: Reversing Temporal Structure

It is 22 November 1963. I am 12. I am in our West London bathroom, preparing a bath. “Oh, my God!” my mother exclaims from the sitting room where she is watching the early evening TV news. “What’s the matter?” … Continue reading

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Assignment Week 4: Mindfulness in Waterstones and the Myth of the Present Moment

ASSIGNMENT – Session Two, Week 4, November 2013 TSK 139 says that we may try to break out of our sense of being trapped in ‘lower time’ by practicing meditation or other spiritual disciplines. You might have other ways of … Continue reading

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assighnment week 4: Time and Meditation

Time and Meditation

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King Kong S2-AFW4 (session 2 assignment for week 4)

“Assignment for Week 4 TSK 139 says that we may try to break out of our sense of being trapped in ‘lower time’ by practicing meditation or other spiritual disciplines. You might have other ways of doing this as well: … Continue reading

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Assignment – Symbols of Higher Space

I worked with an emotional and mental frustration about double-booking myself and missing out on something I really wanted to do. In the lower space of the content of my experience, I was telling a story about myself and increasing … Continue reading

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Stages of Time

To Jacks consideration: “By the way, notice that whereas the TSK book speaks of three levels of space, it speaks of three stages in the appreciation of Great Time. What do you think is the significance of this different formulation? … Continue reading

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Connecting Some Dots…. (Session 2, Assignment 1)

  “This non-experiential relationship with lower-level time is what structures the kinds of experiences we have. Not connected to time’s flow, we find ourselves in a world of ‘things and identities’ that are completely consistent with the static past-present-future structure … Continue reading

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Adding dimension to space and thought

In considering the commentary at the end of TSK ex. 6 “2. Although linear connections within a world may always suffice (for ordinary perspectives) to locate and explain any occurrence, nevertheless, this world and its uninterrupted linear sequences represent an … Continue reading

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