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Practice LOK 50 – Inquiry – A Doorway to the Zeroless

Try listening to this song while reading this… Take the [TSK] vision into your daily activity, observing lightly and free from judgment the effect it has in your life. Lately music, though not the only opening, has been easy access … Continue reading

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Teacher Training – Session 9 – Allowing Space a Focus of Concern

We’ve recently been exploring Space, and how we can experience it without making it disappear into becoming a thing, and thus losing it’s ‘open Spaceness’? How can we not take the experience of open space and enclose it, objectify or … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 28 – A Cycle of Seeing – revisited

Early on in my TSK studies one of the important exercises for understanding space, the knowing process, and loosening assumptions about the ‘weighty’ and fixed ideas of self & identity was The Giant Body exercises. Later, I found The Cycle … 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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Becoming a Mirror for a Day

TSK Ex 29: Awareness as a Reflective Surface (some glimpses) Gratitude to the Grace which allows the Time to become a mirror for a day. Dissolving into the shininess of reflection itself A silent stream of tears bears witness to … 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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SPACE ARISING – DTS Ex. 10 & 9

I’ve long had a fascination with internal space, it progressed from youthful wonder to a gradual fixation or goal as I grew older, a search for spiritual depth. Reminds me of when I was a boy looking over the side … Continue reading

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From ice, to water, to space

This morning, reading/practising DTS 10, then reading commentary (page 283): As you investigate the arising of experience, you may glimpse a similar interplay in your own consciousness. You may also find hints of it in different philosophies or disciplines. It … Continue reading

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Subject-Object Reversal (TSK Ex. 30)

The instructions operate by osmosis, bypassing intellect and discursive thinking. Like drinking a benignly potent medicine which is instantly absorbed by tongue, digestive system and bloodstream, whose essence immediately merges with the cells. I set out to attempt the exercises … Continue reading

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Raven Knows

Raven Knows. A trunk by itself is nothing Concentric circles locked in place Big zeros and little zeros Marking time, polarizing space   But add branches, add a few twigs Limbs reaching out, gathering in And the trunk packs for … Continue reading

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