Thanks to Steve, and others, who want to be TSK gym partners. I am not so familiar with extensive practice of Ex. 33; but on playing with its possibilities...
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Steve, I've worked tentatively with exercise 33 this week, but I have found it helpful to go to the exercise prior to it. Perhaps my own expectations have...
Ram--If I may join in here, I wonder about the experience of light as well. In engaging the knowledge practices, I have found that while letting light appear,...
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Hi Everyone, Ram raised a question I was wrestling with regarding conducting the light (or the idea of light) into being, which seems to be an important...
Hello: Depending upon how broadly one identifies or defines "pattern", or by allowing each discrete pattern (or categories of such patterns) to introduce a...
Hi Ram and Jim I intended to do the `Stream of Memories' exercise as a lead in to my daily sitting meditations but after a couple of days I would wake up in...
Continuing with the `Stream of Memories' exercise… Further observation revealed that so much energy was being used to maintain the memory, and also the root...
Hi David, Thanks for sharing your explorations of the exercise. It has been some time since I worked with it and was not keeping a journal at the time so ...
Jim, Thanks for sharing your experience. That `suspicion' which condensed into a picture is a good way to describe that non-progressional knowing, as you say....
Hi David and Jim, Thanks for taking the time to post your observations -- especially in the middle of the holidays! Just a few days ago, I began working with...
Hello, everyone, Following my signature is an email from Tarthang Tulku that was originally sent out to the members of the TSK email study group in 1995. It...
I thought I'd share what's happening in my practice now, and see whether it's interesting or useful for anyone else. A couple of days ago I was drawn to...
Hi Steve, Thanks for relating those elements of your practice. A few days ago I was thinking to send a message inquiring as to how your ... eerrr ... ...
Jim, ... Seems to me that you can use whatever image you're drawn to. By using deities you might get some benefits from doing both practices at once. I have...
Hi Steve and Jim, I have found a reverse effect...having done the Giant Body exercises for many years helped me to do the Deity Yoga visualizations--since I...
Hi Steve and Ron, Thanks for the replies. They are helpful. I'd quite some difficulty in the early going with allowing the deity image to be translucent and ...
Hi Only brief response now... Both in Deity and Giant Body--detail build up seems to be important. But you may try to allow your imagination to do the work for...
Jim wrote: I'd quite some difficulty in the early going with allowing the deity image to be translucent and dimensional, preferring instead a flat, opaque...
New moon meditation-- I focussed visually on a point of a statue a couple of feet in front of me. Gradually during the session the breath slowed down....
Hi, I joined this group a week or so ago. More like 2 or 3 weeks I think. Sorry I haven't been very active, I've been working/sleeping. Please don't take my...
... workshop." What is an inquiry workshop? Good question. I have yet to see a really clear, concise definition or description of inquiry, probably partly...
Hi Steve, Thanks for the response. Sorry for the delay in replying - it is a bit busy around here. ... Yes, you were correct to surmise that I intended...
Awoke with the birds in the pre-dawn greylight. Listening quietly, huddled under the quilt in the cool and damp air. A robin's vigorous call echoes and...
I have the opportunity to view a lake during lunchtime at work, I have looked at it many times while pondering the weeks events past and future. Last friday...
I hope someone can help me to unravel this mystery. I began to seriously study the tsk vision several years ago during a meditation retreat. I had the original...
Hi, Scott, ... Is the following the exercise? Steve From DIMENSIONS OF THOUGHT Opening Time (Vol. I, pp. 37-43) What is five minutes like? How much experience...
Hi Steve and Sensaru, That solves it. I now remember that there was a library at the retreat center I was at that had a copy of Dimensions of Thought. That was...
Hi I sort of missed the context of the recent discussion on the observer, but here are some comments that might be helpful. They are extracted from a paper I...