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Time-skimming…

In class, we’ve been investigating how the mind actively constructs in each moment, and noticing that no construct is ever completely finished. When we are aware of the activity of minding that builds each structure, our perceptions do not have … Continue reading

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Beyond Language

Came across this article having read it several years ago. It’s written by a Zen Buddhist, and it’s quite good, in my ‘view’… I see parallels with my interests in language, poetry, and other studies. I often say I am … Continue reading

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The Humble Moment

Imagine this… Not at the END of the rainbow, gold is the light of experiencing it… As the starburst is in the taste, not the memory… Experience is not about achieving special states, it’s about expanding focus, it’s not the … Continue reading

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Space that Births

It isn’t often we speak of joy. Something so personal, so deeply experienced in the moment, a sound that resounds in a felt silence, the brightness that illuminates a darkened bulb, and beyond…that connects with all there is, and the … Continue reading

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When Space & Time Open

(Click on the photograph to expand…) This photo is from the Facebook page of a Friend-of-a-Friend, taken by James Smith. You could call it ‘Apples in Winter’, or maybe ‘Candy for the Soul’, dessert for the eyes… What particularly struck … Continue reading

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Light Reflections

I was watching the leaves flutter in the breeze when a flash seemed to sparkle from, I don’t know, a less defined shadow, and like the sun reflecting on glass, I considered this: — self and its myopic concerns is … Continue reading

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Light and Buoyancy

For many, many months I’ve been working with memories, and for many weeks Ken, my fellow students and I have also been working with light in numerous ways…light that illuminates, reflects, warms, and guides, and a correlative feeling of buoyancy, … Continue reading

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Inviting Light

Working With Memories – (DTS Exercise 18 – Pastness Knowledge), can be quite similar to inviting “light as source by sinking ‘beneath’ the contents of mind, turning to inward illumination.” DTS 212 That is what Ken and I were doing … Continue reading

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No Going Back?

This is an interesting poem. It can be read a number of ways, for instance, at a normal discursive level, which is a kind of linear reading. It can also be read through the benefit of the TSK vision… No … Continue reading

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Self as Construct

Self as Construct Being in the moment with just the senses Limitations of that, however rich Knowing where you’re going or what you’re doing Requires a self Self plots actions and constructs story on map of time and space Self … Continue reading

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