Category Archives: TSK Online Fall/Winter 2008/2009

TSK Online Fall 2008 and winter 2009

Week 8 — Trace the tendency of mind to move toward solidity…

I noticed when my brother challenged me on a political opinion I immediately began to separate from him.  I felt there was a position I needed to defend, the position was part of my conceptual identity. There was a sense ‘I’ … Continue reading

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Multiplicity and Wholeness

Sometimes the TSK texts seem to be asking us to shrink our world: flattening three-dimensional space; the suggestion that separation and distance are not real attributes of appearance; the suggestion that a single appearance can fill all of Space.  At … Continue reading

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thoughts without substance

I am finding the recognition that “thoughts have no substance” helpful in freeing me from the reactivity I experience around thoughts and their contents. It has been useful to consider “thoughts” as a space in which  content appears. This helps … Continue reading

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Appearance fills the whole of Space

On page 33 of DTS, in italics, there’s a phrase that I don’t understand:  “Since appearance never takes form, each appearance–inseparable from space–fills the whole of space.”  It’s filling all of space that I don’t understand.  Is this pointing to the … Continue reading

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In-exhaustible Space

Hi, I did Ex. 9 as described – but not “sitting quietly” but while biking and shopping in Supermarket. I´m aware of the space inside in different directions and sensing and outside (seeing the blue sky widen my perceiving of … Continue reading

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Erin, I like your examples from music and art. They help make the point. But it is still important to try to instantiate the point. For instance, what would it be like to interact with someone in a ‘relaxed vibrato’ … Continue reading

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Appreciation 2

David’s description of the exercise we did during the phone call (2 calls back) is not quite how I had meant to present it, but you can listen to the phone call yourself and decide. But his description of his … Continue reading

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With appreciation

It’s nice to see a very active week of posts. I especially encourage everyone to respond to posts by others. And also to post something about yourself in the “Meet the Participants” section, as Erin did this past week. I’m … Continue reading

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Right Brain – Left Brain

I recently watched an interesting lecture by Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor; she suffered a stroke and describes the experience in detail.  I found it helpful with my practice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU I’d been approaching TSK with a lot of main stream reasoning and was feeling a bit lost. Her story … Continue reading

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Condensing beyond stress

During meditation a few days ago, as I was watching the fire-reddened tip of the incense stick and filling my olfactory senses with that familiar smell, I noticed that my mind immediately began to go to all the things that … Continue reading

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