Reflections on what people have been writing

Karin writes about the thoughts that get us going in the morning, “warming up for the day life.” This seems right to me, though people will react differently. Sometimes it seems to me we wake and we are already in the middle of a thought. Perhaps it is the dream we just left behind, but once there is one thought, the transition to the next comes almost automatically. In this sense, the shift from dream to waking is not that great. But this varies a lot. This sense of “thinking the world into being” can be especially strong if we wake up from a nap in the afternoon and don’t know where we are or even who we are, at least for a moment.

I have nothing to add to the exchange between Louise and Michael, except that I always find it admirable when people are willing to do what is “well and truly scary.” Louise also writes about what in the TSK books would be called the space within thoughts. It’s true that thoughts are just ‘space-stuff’. But what we’re exploring is the way in which thoughts claim to be more than that, or rather, claim to be ‘about’ something more real than the thought itself. David’s post highlights nicely this distinction, and the possibility, which Louise also discovers, of finding more space by relating to thoughts differently.

Bruce writes about the gravity of thinking, and nicely describes the pull of thoughts, which suck us into their world. As he says, this is not something you notice which you are in their grip–unless, of course, you have found a way to be more attuned to the space of thoughts. Bruce’s description of the layers of thought should give everyone a lot to investigate.

One thing that shows up repeatedly in people’s experience is the sense that when we touch space, something loosens, or opens, or loosens its grip. That is very much the TSK space-experience, not the whole of it, but a clue toward where we are headed. And the posts are very evocative in the qualities of pleasure, beauty, and wonder that such moments can evoke.

On the other hand, don’t be concerned if that’s not your experience. To experience stuckness or lostness (to take two examples) is also a part of TSK inquiry. It’s important not to tell yourself that you don’t understand, or that you are doing ‘it’ wrong. That thought has so much gravity it will just pin us flat to the ground.

Jack