Hi, Steve, That was a very fine phenomenological analysis of the relationship between temporal experience, emotional or affective experience, and involvement...
To meditate is to rest naturally without seeking anything where there is no particular method for establishing yourself or letting go Künjed Gyälpo - The...
Dear Govinda, There is, unfortunately, not much that I have to offer. But I do admire the honesty and openness in your mail very much and what you describe,...
Hi Frans - Strangely, despite my current anger with myself for not being able to ³hold it together¹, I have faith that this frustration is positive....
Hi Govinda, I don’t and didn’t think the way you brought your crisis to the forum was selfish; on the contrary, it made me feel connected myself (or would...
Hi Frans - You ask if I believe that life is fundamentally positive, and also if it should be... Wow! Big question(s)... If I try to visualise life as an...
Hi Bruce - I¹m interested in the correlation between being able to use our imaginations to quite literally see things from another¹s perspective and the act...
Hello, everyone, I would like to start a new inquiry. In VOK, p. 115, we find: In all ages, knowledge has conducted its own inquiry. The special value of...
Hi, Govinda, You wrote: I can see ways in which the ability to map the physical world from someone else's visual & sensory perspective differs from the ability...
Hi, Govinda, I've been quite busy lately, but have been meaning to write more on this subject. There is indeed very compelling evidence that cognitive...
Just a couple questions I wanted to add to my last letter: Is it possible that the "movement" in TSK to disidentify with the bystander -- to dis-embed ourself...
Hi, everyone, I felt an urge to deepen things and take an exercise (subject-object reversal, ex. 30 from the first TSK book) and really embody it, at least to ...
Hi, Bruce, You wrote: TSK challenges the self-other constructions of the first level. But it seems to me that the self-other constructions serve a role which ...
From the couple I've talked to, yes, I do. I do not intend to close the door on the possibility of there being wholly different ways of developing or being,...
I mean a couple things by relative-level. But most basically, I'm referring to the common Buddhist distinction between relative and absolute truth. ... ...
Hi, everyone, I've been practicing the s-o reversal exercise regularly for a couple of weeks now, and this focus seems to be leading to fruitful results. ...
Here's an exercise that can be used to explore emotion in relationship. [In the following exercise directions, " . . . " signifies a pause, time taken to do...
This email contains a lengthy TSK exercise comprised of an abstraction and amplification of TSK exercises 1-17 instructions that can be done while engaged in...
Elissa, Ken, and everyone else, I recorded a .wma format sound file of a tsk class held at Nyingma Institute 6/28/07. There's a rather constant hum from the...
Enjoyed this exercise and will do again. I definitely watch from inside my head: there¹s an observer inside my head who watches all the rest. Pity, really,...
The following simple, yet powerful practice was very useful twenty-five years ago when I was a psychotherapist. I used it to help clarify my own issues by...
Hi, everyone, I forgot a couple of things. If you are a counselor doing this exercise with another person-which can help the person stay focused on the...
Hello, tsk aficionados! We talk about three levels of time, space, and knowledge in our TSK studies and dialogs, yet through the years it's become clear that...
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I have a question about Rinpoche's use of the word, knowledge. I recall a passage in one of his writings or interviews in which he discusses why he chose to...
Hello there, Does anybody know whatever happened to that beautiful tsk.designwest.com? I miss the direct access to the exercises for when I'm not at home. ...