{"id":9365,"date":"2019-09-09T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2019-12-15T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T19:13:02","slug":"tsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9365","title":{"rendered":"A TSK STORY…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I was in grade school, a devoted choir boy, I wanted to be a priest, among other things. I was raised with 16 years of Catholic education, and perhaps because of that faith-based dogmatic approach to religion, I eventually pushed it away in favor of an approach more experiential in nature, NOT so based on faith. I am not Buddhist per say, but I do love the philosophy, and some of the people I admire most ARE practicing Buddhists. For about 25 years I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve studied a non-religious\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 in fact, a SECULAR approach to spiritual growth that does not involve belief in dogma. [Many Buddhists study it too, a long side their Buddhists studies.] Opinions are necessary, of course, to live productively in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s society, but if they are frozen, fixed, set in stone, stubborn, beyond doubt\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 there is stunted growth, slow maturing, no flowering, little enrichment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What you often get are emotional hot buttons, obsessions, fixations, suffering, self-soothing, myopic pursuits, and so on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

An open approach to spirituality actually involves inquiry and questioning everything without arriving at \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfixed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or final opinions, beliefs, or conclusions. It even means examining ideas and beliefs that feed into or align with a cherished narrative\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 like listening only to news that aligns with one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s predisposed mindset.<\/p>\n

The very nature of this approach is about opening closed and conditioned structures of the mind. The approach I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been studying invites a focus on the SPACE we think with, and the unfolding of everything in it, the constant changing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 as TIME\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 not simply the linear unfolding of one moment and thing after another\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but the more fundamental dynamic of time, THE ALIVENESS WITHIN ALL EXPERIENCE. This aliveness can be touched, opened, and dwelled within as being. Through out my studies, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve written about or attempted to describe many \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchumble moments\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, expanding the experience of a moment\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 opening time and space. And that has been my spiritual approach\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the study and practice of the TIME, SPACE, KNOWLEDGE VISION created by a Tibetan Buddhist master, Tarthang Tulku\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 an approach that is NOT Buddhist, but secular. An approach, in my opinion, I could never master, but can ever study\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the study and practice, which is the journey\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the path that is no path that you become\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or come to realize you are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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