My deepening appreciation for “Keys of Knowledge” prompted me to write something in my weekly blog post (with a Kafka Fable thrown in):
Freedom of Mind, Mind of Freedom
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.
Eliana, thanks for sharing some more quotes from “Keys of Knowledge”, a book I am appreciating more and more as I move through it.
Perhaps Knowledge won’t object if I share another longer one:
“Awareness alone is not enough. Awareness by itself drags its object along, like a can tied to a dog’s tail. To open awareness, we’ll have to become aware of how we become aware.
Sometimes this process is effortless; sometimes it requires staying awake. We remain friendly toward the present moment, toward objects and objections; we let them be our partners. Gradually, the awareness operating at the instant of presented being opens up, elaborates.
And time’s character… changes.” K of K, pg 96
Michael
You wrote very inspiring quotes from the book Keys of Knowledge.
I would like to add another one.
“Since the regime of mind does not have power over us, we do not need to escape out from under it. Instead, our realization manifests within the activity of mind. ” pg 86
We are already free.
“The more we simply let be, the more the observer, the meditator, can open. At that time, being itself can shine. ” pg 86