I wonder if there are others who, like me, look on this website quite often, see that it’s kind of quiet, wonder if they could say something, but the threshold of insight isn’t reached enough to feel that they have anything worth sharing. That’s been happening with me. I continue to feel a lot of appreciation for the TSK teachings, feel that they definitely help me in my daily life, even write in my journal most days, but: here I am, out at sea, in a boat whose destination I haven’t quite yet fathomed. In my home life, I’m surrronded by unhappy people. Death, depression, the whole catastrophe. I wish I could be so clear that I could share the wonderful opportunites that have rained down on me.  “Inquiry” has become a central word in our readings, and I wonder if I am any closer to understanding what it might mean in my lived life. I’m not a scientist, where scientific investigations clearly entail inquiring into the ways thing are. I’m not a pyschologist, where inquiry into the antecedents of behavior can be central. I am being asked to ask questions; and that feels different than being aware, relaxing, practicing the Noble Eightfold Path, trying to be a little kinder). Perhaps I’ve never asked a real question in my life. Yes I have. Many years ago, in fear and trembling, I questioned my whole life, set out on a journey, and was thereby saved. But now? I don’t know. The question I would like to ask is: how can I help the people close to me who seem to be in pain? Happy Enlightenment Day.  I’m grateful for the Noble Eightfold Path and it’s insight into how we can nourish the mind, and body, and the being we have been granted. And I’m grateful to the TSK vision, and how it can bring all that alive in the life I have stumbled into yet again. –Michael
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I think sometimes we think, or at least I think that what I have to say doesn’t matter much to anyone except my ‘self’ that is, but the commonality is that all our experiences are human experiences. I am grateful for TSK and Jack and Kathleen who work so hard to make this available for us. I am also grateful for all of us, b/c we do share a common space in time and this TSK Vision. The magic of real is available for us to experience. I suppose the way that we can help others is by traveling our own path and going through the journey. Knocking down our own walls of conditioning, clearing a path for life to be. What we overcome or learn or discover can be a witness of hope for others. There is nothing like being able to tap into joy, or open up space for life to flow…even in the midst of pain and suffering. That is a very strong testimony to the power of Being, and speaks to the authenticiy of the TSK Vision in the actual living of our lives. While there is no known knower to own knowledge, knowing is available in the aliveness of time, in this space we inhabit. May we discover worlds within worlds and magic in every moment as we continue this TSK journey…
Much love, Tina…
Michael
Thanks each time for reminding Jack to turn on the recorder :@)
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Dear Michael:
Hello. I can relate to many things you wrote in your post.
It seems to me that in the feild of inner experience, the way Rinpoche is guiding us to become aware of things, the self at work behind all the scens … I am just understanding and getting the ideas expressed in the book and expounded by Jack in the phone transmissions… I am starting to connect the material with the experience in a delayed manner… an hour later as I am uneasy about something that just happened, I realize how I have rationalized my way out and how triamphant I appeare, yet there is a new commitment to knowledge that is growing with in me, that makes me uneasy very quickly, an hour later or so, that it did not exist in the near past…. let say two weeks ago… This is very hopeful although not quiet in sinch with action/experience as it is happening. But I have an intuition it will get there!! The thickness of the walls of the fragile ego is thinning and there is a more honest secure being showing up more frequently at the hind side of things that sheds light into what just happened… When the walls of fragile ego desolves enen thinner, and the being that is behind it all ( the intrinsic awareness?) and has no particular position (egotistical postion) is more and more present, then real service present by just being alive and acting from that secure, not thretened position which has a sincere commitment to knowledge or what is true, where/when all positions are equall and no prticular one need to be protected or favored through bias…
Thank you for your note, my heart felt a connection to it and it encouraged me to be couragous to write and reveal where I am with the learnings and inquiries.
Hi Michael,
very recognizable what you describe: quite often I also feel like I wanna share something with the other on-line TSKers and start to write a post. However halfway through I get stuck and feel like … ‘okay but what am I actually saying here … what’s the point I’m trying to make … is this usefull for other people’. In those situations I notice that I can’t fine-tune the words to describe the experience I had in mind …. or … other questions/experiences/words start to intermingle with the experience I wanted to write about in the first place (and the draft of the post becomes a mess). In a way an interesting process in itself for sure … but too bad that in the end ‘the new post’ does not always get finished …
Best-Eric.