Hello All
This is a quick post. I am still lingering on Exercise 16 in TSK. A particular instruction in the text says to let Time be all “units, quantities, meanings, delineations, action, etc.” (not exact quote) In a conversation with Joel Agee (he is here visiting me), we saw that this has to include all thinking, or the movement of thought–since thought discriminates, labels, makes sense of, etc….Yet, what is remarkable is that this Exercise points to another way of allowing thoughts to flow without the normal fixation on a doer/thinker/self/bystander. If so, if ALL thoughts can be seen as Time, and if knowingness is inherent in the interplay of Space and Time (with no need for inserting a self-as-agent into the picture), then it seems that “your” thoughts are not separate from “my” thoughts. And if that is so, one could conceivably have access to anyone’s thoughts, anywhere, in anytime.
Ron
About ronaldp
I took the TSK 10 month program at the Nyingma Institute in 1982 and been a student of this vision ever since. TSK has definitely been a pivotal force in my life–both on a personal/spiritual level, and in my professional and intellectual endeavors. I am also a “Dharma student,†and see a rich interplay between TSK and Buddhist teachings/practice. I’ve done Kum Nye too. Lately, I have been learning and practicing various forms of Qigong and now Chen style Tai Chi.
I am a professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Management/College of Business. I teach MBA students mostly, a course in the Management of Change. I am really not a mainstream business professor. I have contributed chapters to the Dimensions series in TSK, which are edited books by people in various fields that have worked with TSK in different ways.
I am excited about this online program and Jack’s new book that accompanies it, “When It Rains Does Space Get Wet?â€
I look forward to sharing with everyone.
Ron Purser
