Category Archives: Fall 2012 TSK Online Course

The Fall 2012 online course in the Time Space Knowledge vision (TSK).

Time’s variable tempo

A recent NPR radio broadcast spoke of how rapid is the tiny humming bird and how the bird might perceive our movement as very slow. In contrast we might seem to move fast in the eyes of a whale, which … Continue reading

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Optical Illusions Show How We See

In the article, “Optical Illusions Show How We See”, regarding how information can differ depending on perception, the author asks — why is the sky blue? (emphasis mine) “The sky isn’t actually colored at all (not blue or yellow or … Continue reading

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Hearing music

I heard music in a gothic church, chorus composed from SCHUETZ and SCHEIN, it was sung from four directions in the church. Sometimes I heard it with my throat, combined with the bereath. It seemed to me there was fallen … Continue reading

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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

If we could see the future of what we are thinking, saying and doing today, would we change what we are thinking, saying and doing? Mindful of Aryadeva pointing out that what results from a given moment is determined by … Continue reading

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Please can someone clarify

Existence is responsible for its own appearance is the last sentence of the Commentary for our set exercise of ‘Lineage of Appearances’ (KTS page 240). Nothing happens inside me when I read this sentence: I don’t get it. It seems … Continue reading

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traditional/new…same/different

On page 239 of Knowledge of Time and Space, Rinpoche writes: Without the object, there is no going to the ‘beyond’ of space; without space there is no coming to the ‘here’ of appearance. Is this the same as the … Continue reading

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Time’s Present Presence

Hello Group At Jack’s suggestion, I have been attending to “Times Present Presence” to see what this would feel like.  At first, it  felt like a “core companion” of experience. Then  it faded as experience became more solid. Regards, Hayward

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Magic Meal, or the Temporal Lineages of a Simple Supper

Years ago I wrote a meditation book for children in which one of the exercises, Magic Meal, invited its readers to consider (among other things) that in eating a meal, they were actually and in fact, eating starlight. Considering temporal … Continue reading

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Phone Call & Chats – Fall 2012 TSK Online

This is where you can listen to recordings of the Sunday phone calls and read transcriptions of the online chats. Click on the forward arrow to play the streaming audio file. To download the file; (win) right-click the download link … Continue reading

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Some comments from down south

Hi Jack and group members, I am following your discussions with great interest via the podcasts – unfortunately I’m not sufficiently keen to come online at 4am on Monday mornings, Australian time. Jack has asked us to contribute our own … Continue reading

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