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.

The gravity of the past

We have focused so far on the idea that the past is a story we tell, or a description we give, and that when we do this, we are denying our own freedom to bedifferently. Here I want to make … Continue reading

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Reply to Viviane

I’m going to answer a question Viviane posted a couple of days ago. She wrote: I just did my first trial of exercise #15, revising my memories, and instead of reaching any connection between past and present that could make … Continue reading

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Appreciation of memory

My first reaction to the readings is to appreciate memory. Does learning without memory be possible? To use a tool requires memory, requires, to tell/remember an adequate story. The very young child and old people with Alzheimer´s disease (they are … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays

I’ve been keeping a hand in TSK over the break by reading Love of Knowledge from the beginning.  A sentence in the Introduction (page xli) (on the subject of how direct confrontation with the self really doesn’t get us very … Continue reading

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Moments between Moments

When TSK exercises invite me to look for something, I often find that I can’t find it–and this then seems like the realization that the exercise was aimed at showing me.   Doing this LOK exercise nudged me toward the following … Continue reading

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Look through descriptive knowledge for evidence of polar knowledge

I wanted to mention that during the phone exercise the other day, I also experienced that ‘flickering energetic‘ event that both Hayward and Bruce mentioned. I  began as instructed with the intent to observe, as immediately as possible, prior to … Continue reading

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A Third Way

A Third Way December 12th, 2009 <!–michaelg–>Edit (I posted this in General by mistake) The poetic exploration of feelings (perhaps started this week by Eric) seems like a step in the direction of a third kind of knowing: one that … Continue reading

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Polar Knowledge Inquiry

I wanted to write a brief note about our practice during the phone call today.  I found it difficult to ‘identify’ any moment that I could describe as an example of ‘polar knowledge,’ and wondered if the notion is more … Continue reading

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Shift between descriptive and polar knowledge?

Hi all, after the inspiring phone call 1.5 hour ago I thought it would be nice to share the following with other participants: Last week I was having a short holiday with my wife at one of the islands in … Continue reading

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