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P3:
The new way of seeing he found himself exploring had as its object, the old way of seeing!

P5:
“… Rinpoche describes the arc of his inquiry, a sequence both powerful and inspiring, at once strangely plausible and deeply surprising. Here is how he puts it: with greater capacity for knowing and exercising the mind comes “a deep and nourishing enjoyment”. From enjoyment comes clarity; and from clarity comes appreciation. Clarity and appreciation in turn manifest as a special awareness, an awareness inseparable from the love of knowledge that underlies the Time Space Knowledge Vision. Exploring these connections allows Rinpoche to discover a “no-distance” intimacy of knowing and so he arrives at his conclusion: “knowledge inseparable from love.”

P7:
The TSK vision invites us to replace our usual focus on individual identities, objects, and situations- on this present moment, that specific thing, or some particular claim to significance and meaning- with an appreciation for the whole. We might call this ‘the view from every where’!
Such a view vibrates with new possibilities. When we stop framing our concerns in terms of the specific position we occupy and open instead to the space of the whole, we expand the range of possible relationships.

P8:
We fail to live the TSK vision, because “our usual understanding regularly mistakes one specific manifestation of space or time or knowledge for the whole.

P10:
In TSK vision (way of living) nothing is asserted, every thing is open for investigation. We are left with ‘excited wonderment’ and ‘creative unknowing’.

P12:
“Knowing in advance, can be the enemy of knowing more deeply.”

P17:
What is Rinpoche suggesting, when he speaks of seeing ‘on more than one level’?
“The different ‘level’ that interests him is the level at which the mind looks more directly at its own operations. The ‘minding’ of the mind can be observed directly in action.
Following this course of inquiry, he finds that “Conventional patterns and structures and the models or ‘programs’ that generate them began to seem more transparent”.
Rinpoche singles out as the special fruit of this inquiry a new openness. As the usual patterns lose their power, we are set free to consider new possibilities: New ways of seeing, acting, and being.