Category Archives: Areas of Interest

What are we doing?

What are we trying to accomplish? Are we efforting to understand time, space and knowledge? Or are we reveling in and cultivating a direct opening – an opening available through time, space and knowing? I’ve often thought about how it … Continue reading

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Looking Both Ways before Crossing the Field

Jack suggested we respond to some questions raised in When It Rains regarding whether the guided program we are following is subject to several of the limitations which the TSK vision examines.  Does the WIR ‘structure’ itself limit the potential … Continue reading

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Without Requiring a Body

TSK can be understood as a “methodology” for questioning and challenging conventional understanding. The knowledge we “know” sometimes lacks vigor and vitality because it fails to touch our heart or affect our conduct. TSK invites us to make a transition … Continue reading

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Knowing as an Act of Appreciation

Since the Field Communique gives each entity as communicated, knowledge of what appears is given together with what appears. Knowledge of appearance is inseparable from appearance.”  Dynamics of Time and Space. Page 18 Looking out my window as dawn slips … Continue reading

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The Alchemy of TSK

It seems that to trap the word in the confines of its etymology is to constrict the vastness and subtleties of its meanings. Wikipedia’s take on it might be of interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy The simple derivation from the Oxford dictionary is this: late … Continue reading

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Opening the Focal Setting

Conventional views often accord a special primacy to the “here” or the position of the observing self. But according to TSK vision, such primacy is attached neither to the “here” or observing self, nor to the “there” of an independent … Continue reading

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Space Conversation

            As a walkaround for this week, continue the practice we did during the phone call: appreciation of each moment of experience (including encounters with the surrounding world) as also involving the act of experiencing. Does bringing … Continue reading

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DTS Exercise 20 – Exhibition of Knowledge – DF

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Momentous Moments have Momentum

I have never noticed previously that ‘momentum’ is based on the word “moment”. This must correspond to the idea that ‘momentum’ is a movement in time, only noticeable as a progression over a span of ‘moments’. The word ‘momentous’ denotes … Continue reading

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‘Story of Your Life’ – Short Story by Ted Chiang

Jack recommended a short story by Ted Chiang entitled ‘Story of Your Life’, available for purchase on Amazon… Jack said: “…it offers a very interesting take on time and the structures of language, and it’s also a beautifully crafted story, … Continue reading

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