Category Archives: TSK Online Program 2009-2010

Jack’s post on the Arrogance of SETI has me pondering my own way of limiting what I am willing to know.  Looking at our Technological Model of knowledge, as we have been doing, we can see how we tailor our … Continue reading →

I’ve been travelling here and there, going to various places in the city of Sydney, loaded up with a general-purpose shoulder-bag, an iPhone, an Eee; and my backpack with clothes and sundries. It’s been days since I’ve been home, in … Continue reading →

I wonder if there are others who, like me, look on this website quite often, see that it’s kind of quiet, wonder if they could say something, but the threshold of insight isn’t reached enough to feel that they have anything … Continue reading →

“By being ready to take each question to a deeper level, it dissolves or transforms each structure in turn, so that in the end there are no obstacles to the recognition of knowledge at work.” – Tarthang Tulku LOK, 273 … Continue reading →

We are trapped by thoughts, when we know through them. We “pop out” when we recognize thoughts as forms or ways of knowing. Hayward

Last saturday night I was having diner and while enjoying the meal suddenly I was overflown with gratitude for the food which was ‘available for me on the table’: I could kind of ‘connect/see/appreciate’ how the vegetables I was eating had … Continue reading →

Here is a second point arising for me from the phone discussion – this one is on another way to use words: Words can be thought of as ‘labels, that’s true. In that sense they might be thought of as … Continue reading →

Dear Jack, It’s a shame I can’t be on the phone link, because I would have certainly ‘challenged’ Rinpoche’s statement regarding trusting intuition, when you invited it in the phone link-up. I can’t get up at 2:00 a.m, for the … Continue reading →

Wow, have I been in the dark lately. So much tension, stress and resentment to what is happening in my life and to continue these classes, so many I want this and I want that. The “I” in the first … Continue reading →

In this morning’s conference call, discussing how the self’s reliance on models still shows up when we search for knowledge through tradition, feeling, or deference to the transcendent, I kept thinking of the phrase “pang of conscience”.  When we are stopped … Continue reading →