Category Archives: TSK Online Fall/Winter 2008/2009

Reading the sad story of how we helplessly, hopelessly conduct a dreary sameness forward, two lighter thoughts came to the rescue this morning: 1/ the strange statement in an earlier chapter that we contact the dynamic of time from inside … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening there was an ad on TV in which ordinary-seeming people were proclaiming how wrong-headed it would be to tax domestic exploration for gas and oil.  That would hurt ordinary people like us.  I wasn’t really paying much attention, … Continue reading →

I’ve appreciated the posts this week. They show something of the ways you (we grapple) with our not-knowing and finds ways to penetrate it. Karin is right to point to the “little openings in the background” that we may not … Continue reading →

I meditated paying with an openness to seeing into the phenomenon of ‘attention.’ It was really interesting how unnerving it was to shine a light on this part of mental life that works in the wings, usually. First I was … Continue reading →

Hi Friends, I’ve been on retreat for the last week and a half and have to catch up with what been going on. I’d like to share some insights that I had in the context of TSK while away, though. … Continue reading →

When I listened to the recording of the last call and read the comments of Jack, I felt  encouraged, that by remembering the questions of the Chapter and noticing that there are more possibilities  we are entering a gateway to … Continue reading →

My usual practice is to infuse the current experience with aliveness by attributing to breath an open enlivening quality and then infusing my experience with these qualities as I breath in. So as to be more open myself, I exhale … Continue reading →

I’ve been noticing that (I suspect unlike some of the other participants in this program) I haven’t maintained a strong enough meditation practice to deeply experience what it’s like to inhabit time in a new way: to explore the margins … Continue reading →

When I listened to the record of the last call I agreed to Jacks comment, that it is very difficult to stay with a practise for more than a few moments. In my experience I only could concentrate for a … Continue reading →