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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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Walkabout Practice Week 5:

Instruction: Look for the dynamic of the field communiqué within appearance. Put differently, envision substance as a message communicated forward by the mind in ongoing acts of naming. In doing this walkabout, give ‘substance’ an expansive definition. It includes anything … Continue reading

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DTS Exercise 20 – Exhibition of Knowledge – DF

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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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Glowing Journey in Time – DF

As each memory ‘appears’, let it expand in intensity or energy, or in the quality of light it bears. ‘Assign’ this glowing energy a positive feeling, even if the feeling tone of the ‘original’ experience was not positive. Let each … 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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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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“The experiencer can be transformed directly into light” DTS p.168

In the TSK vision, a new experiencer is called for, an experiencer transformed directly into light. We hear this call as mystical, but there is no mysticism in sunlight, and the light we are naming now is more accessible than … Continue reading

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Using Painting to Collapse Linearity to Reach Nuclear Time

Rinpoche says, “Eknosis de-dimensionalizes time, collapsing linearity into the unity of the nuclear. The temporal mechanisms that give order to appearance appear ‘alongside’ the things or events they purport to order.” He goes on to say, “It is something like … Continue reading

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