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Look Into Something Close at Hand

My friend, poet, and fellow TSK student, Ken McKeon sent me a poem in response to a brief exercise we did in class. We’ve actually done many variations on this practice, but in this case Ken was simply having a … Continue reading

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Tripping Over Zero – A Walkabout Practice

I’ve had fun this week with our walk about practice, the one where we ‘look for openness in time’s hidden occupancy, feel it as a “luminous energy…like the glow of a living being at rest”. We are told to “Look … 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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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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Awareness as a Reflective Surface – TSK Ex 29

To some friends, I described a night out and showed some pictures of us enjoying wine and cigars. A seemingly harmless, night out, some fun, etc. So later, I was looking back on this evening, a little like savoring certain … Continue reading

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Are ‘acts of positioning’ the same as ‘timed-out meanings’?

It seems to me that at one level taking a position, perhaps a perspective, is our ordinary way of dealing with the intent to fulfill any desire, even the desire for meaning… Any ordinary intention, any concern or desire—even the … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings

A while ago I wrote about my experience with TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings, an exercise I’ve worked with numerous times over the years. …while watching young birds dancing between green leaves in tree branches, thinking “That too … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 14 — A New Focus on Space (Variation)

Savor the freedom from ‘narrow-minded’ preconceptions, taking this freedom to be the result of a new focus on Great Space. Experience the insight that the mind is not a rigid and continuous thing, but only an arbitrary setting. See if … Continue reading

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Gravity and Freedom

Spring is a great time to be thinking about gravity. Everything seems to be expanding and loosening up the gravity of the field. Even in thinking, most people are lighter in their patterns. In these terms, the seasons are fields … Continue reading

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Assignment – Symbols of Higher Space

I worked with an emotional and mental frustration about double-booking myself and missing out on something I really wanted to do. In the lower space of the content of my experience, I was telling a story about myself and increasing … Continue reading

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