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Soundscapes

Yesterday I was at a Music Discovery meeting, to introduce people to the programme for the forthcoming 70th Cheltenham Music Festival in the UK. One of the performances is entitled ‘The Planets and the Great Animal Orchestra’. Gustav Holst lived … 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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Layers of Awareness

How far can awareness go? How many layers, levels or “moments” can be accessed at the same time? I saw the picture bellow from the NASA´s site the  Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140227.html It is a picture of planet … Continue reading

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Listen and see at the same time – LOK Ex. 22 – (Variation)

If we focus on a particular interval between points A and Al, we find that there is a moment of transition—’X’—that cannot ordinarily be directly observed and thus remains unknown. Listen and see at the same time: in the ‘same’ … Continue reading

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Witnessing Reality

While I was walking to the supermarket I used my awareness like a radar to investigate what makes reality real. Walking with strong steps, feeling, remembering the list of things I had to buy. Seeing how important is awareness, and … Continue reading

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Assignment Week 4: Mindfulness in Waterstones and the Myth of the Present Moment

ASSIGNMENT – Session Two, Week 4, November 2013 TSK 139 says that we may try to break out of our sense of being trapped in ‘lower time’ by practicing meditation or other spiritual disciplines. You might have other ways of … 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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“You must note the way … (writing assign. week 5)

“Now is the time to open to a new level of knowledge,one where inclusion is more natural than exclusion and synthesis is more creative than separation.” Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space (xvi)  Writing assignment: In daily activities, experience with … Continue reading

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Exapanding to Include the Experiencer

(The background to this report – which I fear is too long – is that I have a chronic illness, and my body is almost always in pain. Only in some meditative states do I get relief from the pain. … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 24 – A Marriage of Sound and Breath

This is part of what I posted before from some years ago… I used a sound machine set for the sound of a babbling brook, which repeated like a tape loop. Both ‘babbling’ and the repetition of the sounds had … Continue reading

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