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Week 1, LOK Ex 2 — Layers of Mind
In an effort to keep my entries here short, I can say that the exercise fostered a focus that seemed to shift from ‘things’ to space, and that experience opened ultimately allowing me to see, in a more direct way, … Continue reading
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Week 6 – DTS Ex. 22 – Return to Light
For me, an example of experiencing the quality of darkness within thoughts and feelings is when I’m faced with entering a social situation with numerous people and I feel a shyness, an impulse to hold back or pull back. Looking into … Continue reading
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DARKNESS AND LIGHT
I have just returned from a holiday in Vanuatu, a beautiful little nation of islands in the south Pacific. Being there gave me the opportunity to experience the luxurious light of the tropics – so dazzlingly bright, with sunsets of … Continue reading
The quality of illumination is the point of being
This is one of the two lines I posted yesterday, from the reading, and I am still busy with them. I will say a little more, and in doing so, perhaps bring in some of what you have been writing … Continue reading
Week 3 – Ex. 33 – Self-Transcending Appearance
One way I notice light as a brightening clarity of knowing space is to look not only with my eyes, which can place specific limitations on how and what I see, but to also allow for other sense perceptions to … Continue reading
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TSK Ex. 32 – A Unifying Clarity
I tried to imagine light without any source from a point in front of me, and then added the ‘knowing quality’. This seemed to dissolve a focus on positioning and the feel of ‘now’ expanded to include this light. It … Continue reading
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Phrase From Shakespeare’s Macbeth
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. … Continue reading
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Observing without Owning – LOK Ex. 23 –
I was taking a second look at the jellybean experience (eating consecutive jellybeans). Just naming it like that tends to isolate it from a more encompassing current of what was happening. It isn’t just about the sense of taste in … Continue reading
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Week 9 – TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings
I used to work with watercolors painting landscapes. The process from beginning to end is the implementation of countless pointings. There is an initial impression, which includes (a kind of whole), much more than will end up on paper. The … Continue reading
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Week 8, Ex.TSK 25: Intimacy
….’the objects and outside-standers that make appearance meaningful.’ (P.189).There are difficults with doing this exercise. I can see my thoughts about things – but seeing the things themselves? Do I know, how things themselves are? Do I know, when i’m … Continue reading
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