Category Archives: General TSK Discussions

Juggling a few beads at once

Last night, walking the dogs in a brisk desert wind, old feelings arose from a morning in Canada, standing at the edge of  a field, snow melting, and the pine boughs singing in a springtime breeze.  Then this morning, I … Continue reading

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Ripples of Response

Six days ago I received an email which was a tailor-made ‘eruption’, ideally suited to our homework this week. It took me entirely by surprise and challenged a number of secretly-nurtured mental niches and fantasy future projections (both for myself … Continue reading

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Exercise — Reacting to a Surprise Event

Exercise – An unexpected situation erupts: in your reaction is something being ignored, and in the order that you impose is something being added that has no real bearing? Thinking back over a range of ‘surprise‘ situations, one of the … Continue reading

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Focus – the knowledge aspect of the establishing activity of the senses

From my porch, I’m looking out over a field of very tall grass; windblown uncut that is roiling green. At the edge, the farmer cut a wide path. He will return and cut the rest at some point, but now … Continue reading

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Being Intimate with Intimacy

I find just resting on a phrase such as TSK 4: ‘…it may be possible to discover a kind of space in some intimate connection with each thought, each sensation, each surface and each conceptual category, which constitutes our lived … Continue reading

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Week 9 — The Cycle of Seeing

The Cycle of Seeing exercise demonstrated for me, many of the elements we’ve been learning for the past seventeen or so weeks. Selecting the ten ‘things’ put a focus on how I model experience to ‘short-hand‘ each ‘thing’ from a … Continue reading

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Defining Stories – Unit 2, Week 4

I’ve watched the currents of so many personal stories over time that looking back seems like peering into an aquarium filled with liquid. In the stream of stories, I get the feeling I’m like a fish swimming in them, not … Continue reading

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Phrase From Shakespeare’s Macbeth

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. … Continue reading

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Week 9 – TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings

I used to work with watercolors painting landscapes. The process from beginning to end is the implementation of countless pointings. There is an initial impression, which includes (a kind of whole), much more than will end up on paper. The … Continue reading

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