Category Archives: TSK Online Fall/Winter 2008/2009

TSK Online Fall 2008 and winter 2009

Objects of Desire – TSK Class 3, Unit 1

I wanted to observe my internal processes during different desires, and also during incidents of avoidance. Among other things, I observed the desire for an iPod, the hunger for lunch, the avoidance of anger and not wanting to display it, desire … Continue reading

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Noticing in the Noise

I live [comparatively to most people] a fairly solitary life.  I live by myself in a cottage near Golden Gate Park in SF.  I am a video editor and usually work mostly alone – until it’s time for the client … 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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Waiting for Knowledge

Rereading the 3rd paragraph of LOK 150 for the third time, I realized something: I am living out the process being described in what I’m reading.  Just as the self turns toward a future in which it hopes to find satisfaction … Continue reading

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A reflection on “positive think”

Unlike many pop psychology approaches telling us to think positive thoughts, TSK invites us to investigate the construction of thought and thereby be liberated from thought’s  compelling perceptual patterns. Not positive thoughts….liberation from thoughts :@) Hayward.

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Beyond Allegiances

Have you ever noticed that sometimes, reading TSK’s incisive critiques of ordinary knowledge, a protest stirs within and you say, “but I do feel something beyond this ordinariness”?  And can this actually be a recognition of a way out of the ordinariness being critiqued?  … Continue reading

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Random comments

Diana writes about the little cracks of space that open around labeling. And that is how it is for people, mostly. Something that you have never noticed, or never stopped to question, or accepted at face value, becomes open to … Continue reading

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Naked Objects ?

My first reaction after doing Ex. 21 was, such narratives are serving my needs, for example to give me a significance. That I find confirmation; I´m in the world and my self can create further 1000s of themes and narratives, … Continue reading

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The Founding Story of the Self (week 7)

I thought of I want as a feeling coming from something felt to be lacking; a desire for what I thought would fulfill the lack. Some answers to this question were: a job, financial independence, and continued good health.  There were moments … Continue reading

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Living out stories

I don’t know how related this is to TSK insights about stories and self, but the recent material reminds me of my personal past.  I had an addiction to day dreaming which threatened my actual life.  I gave up writing fiction for twenty … Continue reading

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