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Adding a reduction

“Simply allowing sound to hear or seeing to watch (there is) an intelligence of intimacy”. Does this phrasing add anything to the practice of TSK 24″Marriage of sound and breath?” When form sees and sound hears the knower disappears into … Continue reading

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Look Into Something Close at Hand

My friend, poet, and fellow TSK student, Ken McKeon sent me a poem in response to a brief exercise we did in class. We’ve actually done many variations on this practice, but in this case Ken was simply having a … Continue reading

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Approaching Great Time

In Great Time, intimacy simply is, offering knowingness. This intimacy cannot be brought to our experience at will. It is a state of pure “allowingness”. As if the meaning emerged without any barrier, free of judgments and preconceptions. The prevailing … Continue reading

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Glowing Journey in Time.

I have felt the pull of sequential time strongly in the past two days, worrying about my kids in a framework (logos) that assumes dire consequences for current behaviour. Working with LoK exercise 32 & 33 revealed in a surprising … Continue reading

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Tripping Over Zero – A Walkabout Practice

I’ve had fun this week with our walk about practice, the one where we ‘look for openness in time’s hidden occupancy, feel it as a “luminous energy…like the glow of a living being at rest”. We are told to “Look … Continue reading

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The Quest for “Zero”

It came to my mind the Big Bang, the great explosion that gave rise to our universe, the zero point of our universe. Nobody could see the explosion, only the echoes of its occurrence. Scientists affirm that there was this … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 28 – A Cycle of Seeing – revisited

Early on in my TSK studies one of the important exercises for understanding space, the knowing process, and loosening assumptions about the ‘weighty’ and fixed ideas of self & identity was The Giant Body exercises. Later, I found The Cycle … Continue reading

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Glowing Journey in Time – KN

Doing this, in the transition suggested exercise it seemed that it smoothly moves awareness from the heavy structure of the content of the memory to a light(ful) quality that can be present too. This light appears a little bit like … Continue reading

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Potential Fulfilled

We might sense the potential for a moment before this moment is caught up in the ‘logos’ of the ‘order’. This potential is sensed as pure space. In this space, Being can take occupancy. The character of existence not conditioned … Continue reading

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Glowing Journey in Time – DF

As each memory ‘appears’, let it expand in intensity or energy, or in the quality of light it bears. ‘Assign’ this glowing energy a positive feeling, even if the feeling tone of the ‘original’ experience was not positive. Let each … Continue reading

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