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Add comment November 1st, 2006
Writing as a Discipline
I have always felt that I do my best thinking while I am writing. First comes the initial insight (and perhaps this is the best part of the thought, in one sense, but read on). Then, when it comes time to write that insight down, I discover that the insight is something more like an outsight, in the sense that when I try to frame it in words, I realize that in order to do so, something about my previous set of assumptions, my previous world, has to change. I have to go outside/beyond where I am when I start the writing process. And suddenly I find myself off and running, in an unexpected direction, in fact, a direction that I didn’t even know existed.
Does anyone else experience it like this?
7 comments October 27th, 2006
Reminders and Observations on the Process of Writing Posts
1. Please remember to sign your name to Posts. You don’t need to do that for comments; the software takes care of it automatically.
2. If you are writing a post for a specific category (such as the TSK online class), please be sure to go to the “categories” section of the page on which you are writing a post and uncheck the “general comments” category and place a check in the box next to the specific category in which you want your Post to appear.
3. If your sense is that comments to Posts get lost, you could try writing everything as as a Post, even if it is a comment on someone else’s post. If you do, please make it clear what previous post you are referring to. The advantage is that others are more likely to see it. The disadvantage is that the stream of posts becomes more chaotic. But feel free to experiment.
Jack
Add comment October 26th, 2006
Wonderment of Being
“Wonderment is the presence, the presenting, the appreciation of reality as Being. All appearance is sheer art, beautiful beyond all enduring, appealing beyond all possibility of possession. It cannot be possessed but it is entirely accessible. The treasure which our being preserves for us is like an ever-present nectar; it is like an inexhaustible kingdom which is always open to us.” ~ Tarthang Tulku, Time, Space, and Knowledge.
5 comments October 16th, 2006
Celebrating Time, Space, Knowledge
“The capacity of Great Space is never exhausted or compromised by a commitment to one particular trend or world order. Great Space can let anything appear. Great Space supports infinitely many choices of perspective.” (Tarthang Tulku, Time, Space, and Knowledge)
3 comments October 15th, 2006
Ron Stewart
Like some others in this online program, I have been interested in the TSK vision for quite a number of years. I 
first started reading Time, Space and Knowledge in 1979 and have engaged in periodic “contemplative reading” of most of the TSK books during the years since then. But I have never done much with the exercises, nor had I ever worked with TSK in a group until last May when Jack led a workshop near Portland, Oregon, close to where I live.
So I look forward to being in this program with all of you. Hopefully, we can help each other deepen our experiential understanding of what it means to be “Living the Time-Space-Knowledge Vision” as the subtitle to When it Rains says.
2 comments October 12th, 2006
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“Sound is touch at a distance”
The quote above is from a radio show I heard this evening, driving home, and it’s from a neurologist who points out that sound does in fact arise from air waves touching the small bones of the ear, and eventually being translated into electrical current; according to current research, electrical currents that are rhythmic produce pleasant sensations, while those that are chaotic make us uncomfortable.
More at the level of meaning, the same neurologist noticed that when parents who have been holding their babies put them down, they tend to immediately start talking to them, using verbal melodies that for certain basic messages (”Good baby!” “Watch out!”) are universal across cultures. The implication was that sound can actually be a substitute for touch, or put differently, that sound is a form of touching.
I happen to be working with sound as a sense modality in some teaching I’m doing at the Nyingma Institute, so this was all quite interesting to me. I won’t go into details; let me just say that we do ourselves a disservice if we think we know what it is like to sense something. Our senses seem to be much more malleable than we imagine. And this is something to explore not only in specific exercises (TSK exercises, meditation practices, etc.), but in our walking-around daily activities.
Add comment October 11th, 2006