I’ve been wondering why I keep being drawn to TSK. \u00c2\u00a0This weekend I attended an opening lecture of a weekend workshop celebrating a spiritual path called “MasterPath”. \u00c2\u00a0The core book, “Soul’s Divine Journey” uses words that I don’t personally use and which are not particularly evocative for me: God, Soul, Levels of Heaven. \u00c2\u00a0But I was drawn to read the book and attend this lecture, which only happens twice a year, when the “Living Master”, Sri Gary Olson, comes to Albuquerque, because I am impressed with a woman who is very severely disabled with MS. \u00c2\u00a0She has a presence and glow that I would like to have more of myself. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve also met other individuals on this path and am impressed with them also. \u00c2\u00a0Then at the event, standing in line with at least 1000 other people,I found the woman behind me to be an inspirited, open person, who gladly shared the 20 year dedication that brings her to Albuquerque twice a year for these events. \u00c2\u00a0Even the book is written in a vivid, appreciative way about a world I recognize along with a cogent exposition on why religions, in looking outside of the individual for “salvation”, have all strayed from the inspired understandings of their founding masters.<\/p>\n
And yet, this morning, I return to TSK with gratitude. \u00c2\u00a0Why? \u00c2\u00a0Thinking about this, I came up with the following: even an appealing story (such as MasterPath’s story about how our souls are drops of the great ocean of God to whom our souls yearn to return, but are prevented from undertaking that journey home \u00c2\u00a0because our ordinary minds stand in the way) feels like yet another way to look outside of our current lives for a greater reality to which we would aspire to return if we hadn’t buried our souls under the domination of our minds.<\/p>\n
TSK doesn’t require a journey, a pushing aside of obscuring entanglements, or a deferral of full engagement with and appreciation for what is present right here and now. \u00c2\u00a0 This works for me and I suspect that it offers a vision for which our accelerating, crowded world hungers. \u00c2\u00a0If only we could find a way to express this vision in ways that our neighbors and work-mates might understand. \u00c2\u00a0I scarcely dare to mention TSK to people in my personal world, unless they ask about it. \u00c2\u00a0This difficulty of sharing the TSK vision with others perhaps has two main aspects: 1\/ hardly anyone wants to know about someone else’s spiritual interests, especially if they suspect that they might thereby unleash a proselytizing rant; and the concepts used to express the TSK vision are simultaneously too fundamental and too intellectually demanding to share around the water cooler. \u00c2\u00a0 I’d be interested in knowing: have any of you been asked about TSK by family and friends over Thanksgiving dinner? \u00c2\u00a0Just asking. \u00c2\u00a0–Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been wondering why I keep being drawn to TSK. \u00c2\u00a0This weekend I attended an opening lecture of a weekend workshop celebrating a spiritual path called “MasterPath”. \u00c2\u00a0The core book, “Soul’s Divine Journey” uses words that I don’t personally use … Continue reading