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Matisse and TSK

Creation is no longer a unique event that takes place at the beginning of time, or else through the inspiration of a mysterious force. Instead, as the momentum of ‘time’ it is freely accessible in each interaction. KTS 78 TSK … Continue reading

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Gravity & Lightness

To cultivate playfulness of mind is to move from this self-imposed gravity toward light, from the grave to the light-hearted. There is nothing mysterious in this movement; on the conventional level, it comes about simply through relaxing the rigid structures … Continue reading

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Intimacy as the basis for Compassion [TSK Ex 25]

‘You are me in another time.’ Barry Long TSK does not directly teach the practice of love or compassion toward others. However, once the narrowness of the positions we hold drops away, we find that we interact more easily with others, … Continue reading

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Whispered Intimacy

Much has been said about mindfulness. Buddhist practitioners have in mindfulness a valuable tool, but not alone. In the wonderful book of Ken McLeod “Wake Up to Your Life – Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention” there is a very … Continue reading

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Forgetting the Name

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.” – Robert Irwin “Only he who simply abandons himself to the object of his perception will experience it aesthetically.” — Erwin Panofsky These phases from the CCI website inspired me … Continue reading

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Full Participation

It seems that “the known world is experienced by the self, which owns its experience. For this basic structure to work, the self must adopt a specific position that puts it outside experience… As an ‘outsider’, the self occupies the … Continue reading

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Write about the last paragraph of KTS Ex. 25

It’s interesting how looking backwards on memory can clarify how time unfolds in the present. I found it wonderfully fascinating how a little 5 minute exercise of looking at a memory (and hours of reading and inquiry) opened the door … Continue reading

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Time and Intimacy

Do people share their time or are already in their own time? This question reminded me of a situation in which I experienced some days ago. I was walking to the supermarket. It was about noon, it was a sunny … Continue reading

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Shared Time?

Do people share their time or are already in their own time? This question reminded me of a situation in which I experienced some days ago. I was walking to the supermarket. It was about noon, it was a sunny … Continue reading

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Explore a Memory, How Does It Feel?

During last week’s conference call we took about five minutes of silence to explore a memory – what it felt like, how we distinguished between past, present, and future, and how it felt around the memory? Over the ensuing week … Continue reading

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