Category Archives: TSK Online Fall/Winter 2008/2009

TSK Online Fall 2008 and winter 2009

the time that allows past-present-future

When practicing time exercises a recognition occurs. Just as space allows objects and gives them form, time enables the past, present and future. Objects are forms of space and present, past and future are expressions of time. We saw something … Continue reading

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Transitional constructions

I’m borrowing this phrase from Michael’s post. It relates to my previous post, about the difficulty of finding movement in time. Let me connect that to our Sunday phone calls. When most of the phone calls go by with me … Continue reading

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Winds of Freedom, Winds of Time

This post is really in response to Diana’s post and Michael’s comment on it, but I am posting it separately in accord with requests I’ve had in the past to put my comments more in the foreground. Like Michael, I … Continue reading

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Time Blossoms – Week 4

Lately, I feel time hidden within the evident. The seed of spring has been emerging from the roan and russet contours of the winter soil. Each day has been like waking up to time-lapse photography; changes in the field out back … Continue reading

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An Incomplete Thought

There’s a sentence in this week’s reading (middle of Page 87), “The ever unfolding sequences move toward increasing dimensionalization: the multiple pronouncing of what has been recorded.”  This reminds me of another sentence, in the previous unit, where we studied how … Continue reading

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The Stiff Winds of the Future

In doing the exercise today and the one from page 99, I found that butting 2 quotes of Rinpoche’s together actually described my experience very well.  The first half is from the middle of page 83 and the last half … Continue reading

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The Edge of the Future – Class 3, Unit 2

There are times, while walking in nature for instance, a new moment emerges untouched, where the haze of thoughts and self concerns are blown away like dark smoke, and the seed of a new moment is born, freshly germinating by … Continue reading

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Tapestry of Presence

I was taken aback by an image on Page 77 of DTS: the suggestion that our “concern” could allow us to view the present as encompassing entire geologic eras.  My immediate thought was that a longer span of time can … Continue reading

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Desire & Intentionality

Hi All! Nice to be  back. It wasn’t hard to get a general understanding of Rinpoche’s concept “intentional knowledge,” however yesterday I saw it more directly in a moment of desire; a seeing which challenged my patterns some (thankfully). A … Continue reading

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Three times, three personalities

Three responses arose in me to three different parts of the LOK chapter for this week: 1/ The retreat into feelings is all too familiar, fortunately from an earlier time in my life; 2/ The dedication to controlling how my … Continue reading

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