We are having a few problems with The Labyrinth right now. The place to click for writing a post disappeared. I finally found it by clicking the “CCI Home” tab. So that may work for you too.
I appreciate very much the posts people have been writing this week. Regarding the discussion of light and dark, Gaynor, I agree that Rinpoche writes about darkness in two ways. As the opposite of light, it has all the qualities we usually assign to it. But if we bring light ‘into’ it while allowing the darkness to remain something very different happens. We normally think of darkness as the opposite of light. But this is a different approach, a different way of ‘making sense’ of experience.
Michael, you have answered your own question about how to let the insights from practice stay fresh and alive. You need to ‘reinvent’ them. In a way, this is the same situation as with light and dark. If you think of ordinary experience as dark and the experience that may come in exercises as light, darkness will take over. But if you can bring the light of the exercises into the darkness of the everyday, then the everyday stays the everyday, but it is still infused with light.
You should all be receiving a TSK newsletter that Kathleen has put together. You will see that it refers to a “TSK Light Gallery.” I will write more about this next week.
This weekend I am teaching a workshop called “Mind in Nature.” It is not a TSK workshop, but I am sure there will be connections. I will post again on Monday.
Jack