As a facilitator, I recently shared this post with the Monday-TSK Study Group, because we have just finished a two-year deep-reading of ‘Knowledge of Time and Space‘ (KTS), and now we’re studying, ‘Visions of Knowledge‘ (VOK), both books by Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche. I am p…Read more

Recognizing Knowingness

I wanted to share these passages, [sent to me from Eric Lichtman and Oda Lindner [two advanced TSK students]. They are ‘pointing-out’ passages that may be helpful to others who are interested, particularly our Monday—TSK Study Group, that has been practicing Ex, 23…Read more

“Though we encounter limits wherever ‘something’ has been established, we are free to look instead toward ‘nothing’—toward the ‘nowhere’ of nonpositioned Space, the ‘nothing happening’ of invariant Time, and the ‘nothing to kn…

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Image – Into The Wild

Video – Into The Wild by Garry Saunders: https://www.facebook.com/reel/25065421819816851

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Hoping you will be able to view the short video clip. Love how… if you focus on the tiny instants ‘just BEFORE’ the swan becomes visually defined, and you begin to realize wh…Read more

Giving Thanks ~ Image by Joshua_seajw92 – Pixabay  https://pixabay.com/…/autumn-fall-leaf-leaves-tree…/

APPRECIATION GROWS…

In light of the season… Thanksgiving… I’ve been considering the following passages, within an overall feeling of gratefulness… in spite of a year of devastating pain and suffering for many near and far. Despite…Read more

TSK Exercise 28 – A Cycle of Seeing…

“Select ten ‘things’, including objects, qualities, and other common contents of experience, such as a car, an orange, a piece of music, a tactile quality, etc. Once you have formulated a specific and ordered list of such items, contemplate the first one until you ‘see’ it quite concretely. Then go on to t…

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TSK Ex. 28 – Cycle of Seeing [practice notes] from 2009…

The Cycle of Seeing exercise demonstrated for me, many of the elements we’ve been learning for the past seventeen or so weeks. Selecting the ten ‘things’ put a focus on ‘how’ I model experience to ‘short-hand‘’ each ‘thing’  from a countless selection of choices, in order to refine and…Read more

Image – ‘Spacious Sound’ by Wounds and Cracks – Pixabay  https://tinyurl.com/yca2klj7

DIVING INTO TIME…

In class… a student was having some difficulty with the invitation to… ‘Dive Into Time’, to question the status and identity of our emerging (various) ‘selves’, as we observe moments passing… The student asked, “How do I look into a memo…Read more

“Author Michael Gray has written a new Blog on the Center for Creative Inquiry Forum, entitled: ‘Moonlight At The Center’.  It’s a brief and lovely story from his past. He begins by saying…Read more

Excerpt From ‘Knowledge of Freedom‘: Chapter 9, Breaking Through the Known:

In moments of wonder and great humility, human b…

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So at what point does knowing occur? If I point to a point called ‘the point…

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“Once we develop more…

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“We live in a world that we consider to be real. That may seem self-evident, but… our conviction is mostly based on certain kinds of evidence. For instance… the working of cause and effect: if the cause produces an effect it must be real… More generally, we c…

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Author Michael Gray has penned a new Blog that seems to fit with an ending year, and tracking back in time asking, “How Did I Get Here?’ What a sobering question! How beautifully written is his Blog… it seems like a dream to the character speaking… life… time slipped…Read more

Author Michael Gray has written a new Blog at the link below. He is considering fundamentally, quite important questions:

–What do I actually imagine will happen when I die?
–Do I experience an inner life that I feel can continue after I die?
–Am I failing to hear…

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Author Michael Gray has written a Blog entitled “Into the Light’, in which he reveals: “When I was two years old, I drowned in Lake Ontario, and I sometimes wonder if I had something like the experience that adults the world round have reported… I wonde…Read more

Author Michael Gray has written a new Blog, or might I say, an ‘allegory’ for our time. He begins: “If I was a river, and I’m not saying I’m not, I would thread my way through all obstacles. Without them, I could not continue my journey.” Later, he relates:

“…

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Author Michael Gray has written another Blog, which in this case is a bit different. He writes as if from a deaf perspective. And when he first shared it I couldn’t help but think of the silence between all the ‘things’ that music i…

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“[One’s] entire personal history is present within each moment of time. By opening to the space, time, and knowledge available within the moment you can… instantly transform all of the ‘past’ moments preserved ‘there’. The psychotherapeutic approac…

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Ah
by Ken McKeon

Walked the field of stars,
Walked through the mind…Read more

My friend Eric Lichtman shared this poem with me, it seemed to go right to the heart of the matter…

TREES
by Howard Nemerov

To be a giant and keep quiet about it,
To stay in one’s own place;
To stand for the constant presenc…Read more

THE WALL AND ME…

“We do know that on some level and in some way time passes; that present will pass into past; that mem…

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Image:  Lady Bug bejeweled by the morning dew

 
“Each of us has the potential to create peace and beauty in the universe.”
…….‘Skillful Means’  by Tarthang Tulku

Our TSK Study Group has been meeting once a week for almost a year and a half.  We’ve gone through the several of the TSK books: ‘Time, Space, and Knowledge,’ ‘Dynamics…Read more

You might imagine bricks are like thoughts, putting together stories, building a structured reality… the way we think we know how things are, shaped by our opinions, and presumptions. Rinpoche often writes about ‘how’ we ha…Read more

Image: ‘Round My Hometown’ by Chris Padgett – Flickr

ZERO SPEAKS

“We might think of zero as a remark by space, a saying that expresses an allowing. Space shows itself in zero. As the symbol of form, the place-holder, zero speaks in all language and in each connection. As the voice of space, it is knowledge communicating with time and space,…

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WHERE’S THE OPENNESS?

As TSK students, at some point we’re faced with a perplexity, a pickle, a Catch-22… we want to discover open mind… the blank availability out of which all our thoughts, and feelings arise. So we think about that primordial space……

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Image: ‘Blue’ by Angeleses – Pixabay  https://tinyurl.com/y58gokcs

THE MORNING ME POEM

by Ken Mckeon

Golden flowers, morning light, and the sky,

For the first time in weeks, bluer than blue,

As I am, a baseless true blue blue,

A doubled up blue, a three scoop blue

Balanced on a flimsy ice cream cone,

Bound by a round design…Read more

I love your inquiry, perhaps inspired by the quoted questions that Rinpoche posed:

“What is beyond the cosmos? What does light reveal when there are no objects to reflect it? Where can we go if ‘from’ is fused with ‘to’? What properties do we discover when noth­ing appears? What meaning does our life assume when there are no more st…

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A Primary Moment – Cape May Sunset by Werner Tedesco, Sep 2020

THE PRIMARY MOMENT

I’ve recently completed my repeat ‘Searcher Reaches Land’s Limits’ course. The first and repeat courses have taken almost two years; that’s about 60+ classes, reading the books volumes I and II multiple times, and working with the practices at all hours of…Read more

Image: From Infinite Folds and Wild Knots by Bruce Alderman – Liminal Art Prints

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The following posts from quite a while ago, were my practice notes resulting from calmly inquiring into some specific acts of perception.  I was curious ‘how’ sometimes I saw what I di…Read more

..this week we practiced a modified version of, ‘Dynamics of Time and Space’, Exercise 18 – Pastness Knowledge, that I call “Swimming in a Memory” or “Tracing a Memory”. The instruction is to [at least initially] recall a PLEASANT memory, such as sitting on the beach on a sunny day, or havin…

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Image:  Dawning by Laura Thistle, Cape may NJ  Aug 2018  https://www.capemay.com/photos/2018/08/14/dawning-beauty/

Nuclear Time and the Not-Not-Not

At a recent online TSK Study Group, Erick conducted a modified Kum Nye practice to begin the meeting.  His guided instruction included inviting us to sit comfortably and relax breathing.  We t…Read more

Image:  ‘Witness’ by Foundry Co – Pixabay  https://pixabay.com/photos/field-grass-sky-nature-earth-834375/

During a recent TSK Study Group meeting, we discussed,  ‘Dynamics of Time and Space,’ Chapter 12, about ‘the witness’.  “The witness makes it possible for us to take a stand in time, and this positioning is fundamental for mak­ing sense…Read more

Love the title of your post, posed as a question.  I found this quote from ‘Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space‘:

Space Teaches Knowledge
In the warm openness of space, learned meanings and imposed purposes give way to spontaneous nourishment. Time’s rigid rhythms melt toward fluidity and flexibility, choices abound, and knowledge ha…

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Photo:  ‘Reflection’ by Andzia – Pixabay  https://pixabay.com/photos/reflection-joint-landscape-nature-3550907/

WHAT IS A PROBLEM

I’ve been reviewing the book, ‘Searcher Reaches Land’s Limits,’ volume II, by Richard Dixey, preparing for the upcoming course.  And I’ve been also thinking about how the way I ordinarily think about things invol…Read more

Photo: ‘Dawn’ by Mirekis – Pixabay   http://tinyurl.com/y6dsxp45

EDGE OF THE FUTURE

I love to write, and when I do, I am fascinated by the ‘dawn’.  Of course, the captivating and compelling beauty of the just rising sun… but in particular, the dawning of form… when at the edge of the darkened mind, where the ‘unseen’ fades, inner sha…Read more

Your last paragraph is telling… perhaps an example of projecting the ‘known’ past into the present, or a projected future… using the word ‘absence’ in your familiar way.  The moment between thoughts that Rinpoche is talking about is ‘open’, absent of your thoughts and continual conceptualizing.  At least for an instant. That…Read more

https://discussions.creativeinquiry.org/forums/topic/imagining-time-and-appearance/

Photo:  ‘The Ripening of the Dawn’ by ELG21 – Pixabayhttps://pixabay.com/photos/mountains-sunrise-sky-clouds-6877017/

In class we were considering ‘field dynamics’, which from a TSK perspective suggests, as science tells us, ‘everything is made of fields’. Keeping that in mind as we employ our normal way of knowing, (subject engages an object)…Read more

“Liberation lies in allowing thoughts to…Read more

Photo: Edge of The Future – Pixabay

FIRST IMPRESSION EXPERIENCE

TSK and Full Presence Mindfulness students are invited to take a first-person look within their own experience and inquire into its ‘unfolding’, as Time, Space and Knowing. Glimpses, or momentary flashes, seem often to come from observing the ‘first impression’. Living and breathi…Read more

Photo: ‘Spaces within Spaces’ by Myriams-Fotos – Pixabay  https://tinyurl.com/y4evrrzw

Here’s another post related to the one above…

SPACE WITHIN SPACE WITHIN…

“To look at the emergent future, the one that actually takes place as distinct from future imaginations, we could start with simple sensory experience of the present, focusing…

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Here are a couple of things I posted a while back in which I quoted Rinpoche, and also from the book ‘Unformulated Experience,’ by Donnel B. Stern. I mentioned in a recent TSK Study Group, as we tried to get our heads around the ‘gap’ between thoughts, that it’s really only a gap [or openness], depending on the perspective we have adopted…Read more