I wonder if there are others who, like me, look on this website quite often, see that it’s kind of quiet, wonder if they could say something, but the threshold of insight isn’t reached enough to feel that they have\u00c2\u00a0anything worth sharing.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s been happening with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I continue to feel a lot of appreciation for the TSK teachings, feel that they definitely help me in my daily life, even write in my journal most days, but: here I am, out at sea, in a boat whose destination I haven’t quite yet fathomed.\u00c2\u00a0 In my home life, I’m surrronded by unhappy people.\u00c2\u00a0 Death, depression, the whole catastrophe.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish I could be so clear that I could share the wonderful opportunites that have rained down on me.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0“Inquiry” has become a central word in our readings, and I wonder if I am any closer to understanding what it might mean in my lived life.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not a scientist, where scientific investigations clearly entail inquiring into the ways thing are.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not a pyschologist, where inquiry into the antecedents of behavior can be central.\u00c2\u00a0 I am being asked to ask questions; and that feels different than being aware, relaxing, practicing the Noble\u00c2\u00a0Eightfold Path, trying to be a little kinder).\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps I’ve never asked a real question in my life.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes I have.\u00c2\u00a0 Many years ago, in fear and trembling, I questioned my whole life, set out on a journey, and was thereby saved.\u00c2\u00a0 But now?\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 The question I would like to ask is: how can I help the people close to me who seem to be in pain?\u00c2\u00a0 Happy Enlightenment Day.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I’m grateful for the Noble Eightfold Path and it’s insight into how we can nourish the mind, and body, and the being we have been granted.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’m grateful to the TSK vision, and how it can bring all that alive in the life I have stumbled into yet again.\u00c2\u00a0 –Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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