Category Archives: TSK Online Program 2009-2010

Online course collectively investigating the Time, Space, and Knowledge material authored by Tarthang Tulku. Online class is led by Jack Petranker.

What is Rinpoche’s idea of ‘self’?

Dear Jack, Since much of the conversation/dialogue in this forum centres on the word ‘self,’ please tell me what Rinpoche means by ‘self.’ To me, wherever I pick the thread of his thinking, he’s seems to be talking about a … Continue reading

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If I were a River:

Then I’m sure I would identify with the river banks through which I flowed, would feel more powerful when swollen with the spring run-off , and I would narrate many stories about the droughts and floods I had witnessed.  I … Continue reading

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reg. text page 223 … in moments of surprise or unusual intensity…

Moments of deep experience I new through the death of my friend Suneth. Suddenly the linear time stopped to be and I found myself in a space that was new and unexplored for me. There was no old pattern, that the Self … Continue reading

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Signs of resistance

Observing the moments between moments I noticed increasing and releasing tension in my throat and my stomach. Was it the narrator or the owner or the witness who insisted to describe and label what is happening between the moments. There … Continue reading

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Models and Provisional Observations

An interesting side-effect of studying TSK is that writers who were once important to me come to mind in the course of contemplating TSK insights.  One writer is George Gurdjieff.  However, our study of the role models play, in interpreting experience, … Continue reading

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How do we move from point to point in awareness?

I used to think X (in the Point of Transition exercise) was something like being a passenger in a car or train, looking out the side window as the scenery close-in blurs by.  To take a fix, you focus your … Continue reading

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Moving from moment to moment

Dear all. encouraged by Jack’s orientation this week, yesterday evening I tried to notice the moment in between the “moments” like described by Jack. In my case it turned down to tracing ‘the movement’ from a current memory/story to a next … Continue reading

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The Self composing itself in time

Jack’s notes for this week included a very paradoxical claim: “the self itself is a story told by the self.”  My own self protests: surely everything has a cause outside of itself.”  And the example given, a few sentences later, … Continue reading

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A nice Story

I try to translate a few chapters of LOK into German. It is difficult for me to do this, and I need very often to use the dictionary. But it helps to understand each word. Each word, but when I … Continue reading

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“intentional knowledge” auf Deutsch

Peter suggests that the translation of “intentional knowledge” as “absichtiges Wissen” seems wrong, and I agree. Of the alternatives he proposes, “zielgerichtet” seems best; that would translate back into English as “goal-oriented.” Absichtig is more like “on purpose,” and can … Continue reading

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