How does the body point at the mind, and how could I beome aware of this pointing? Would awareness then be in the body or the mind? Breathing seems a good place to look, since both body (Involuntary) and mind (voluntary) seem to meet in the act of breathing. As seems so often to be the case with TSK exercises, just relaxing with the breath creates an atmosphere in which the mind calms down (relinquishes its insistence on always being in control) and the problem of who is pointing at who dissolves in a perception that there is no great separation between the various facets of our embodiment.Â
Michael
About Michael Gray
I first started studying TSK in the mid 1980's and have since attended a number of retreats and workshops at the Nyingma Institute, in both TSK and Buddhist themes. I participated in the life-changing Human Development Training Program in 1991, and upon returning to Albuquerque co-founded an organization, Friends in Time (with a friend who has Lou Gehrig's Disease), which continues to serve people with similiar disabilities. I contributed an essay to "A New Way of Being"--the last one in the book--in which I describe how learning to honor who I have been has broadened and deepened my openness to present experience. I live in New Mexico with my wife and two sons.
