A nice Story

February 25, 2010

I try to translate a few chapters of LOK into German. It is difficult for me to do this, and I need very often to use the dictionary. But it helps to understand each word. Each word, but when I try to remember the whole text – I don´t remember. And I don´t understand. And [...]

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Memory

January 23, 2010

Where I´m looking, there I´m finding memories, very much memories, like a soup with many vegetables. My thinking is full of memories, the same with my body (going, swimming, cycling, eating…). Even my gene seem full of ancient memories. But my memories are creative, they change, they adapt to my moods and vantage points (near [...]

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Appreciation of memory

January 19, 2010

My first reaction to the readings is to appreciate memory.
Does learning without memory be possible? To use a tool requires memory, requires, to tell/remember an adequate story. The very young child and old people with Alzheimer´s disease (they are loosing their memory) cannot survive without the help of other people.
When I think about “love”, I [...]

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Tapestry Unwind…

December 4, 2009

Oh memories of days gone by…
That won’t let you be free…
Hovering like a dark storm cloud…
Refusing life to breathe…
Ironically they may not be…
Just what they pretend…
Retracing them a different way…
Allows for them to bend…
Memories so frozen…
Now melting into free…
Allowing for such freedom…
Opens myriad possibility…
One memory can shut you down…
Or open up your mind…
To endless views [...]

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Space: Powers of 10

February 4, 2007

The following flash animation is a helpful visual aid for several of the space practices, such as “Containment” or “The Qualities of Space” or perhaps several others:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
You can make it run in reverse order as well…
Best wishes,
Bruce

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A Poem from the Online Program

January 21, 2007

This ‘poem’ emerged out of comments by three different participants in the online TSK program, I put them together. The context was reflections on some TSK exercises that ask about moments between moments, and about stepping ‘outside’ the flow of moments:
“What shall I call the transition
from breathing out to breathing in?
Death?”
Giving each moment back to [...]

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Patterns of T-S-K

December 9, 2006

I’m posting this here because it is a little outside the scope of the current week’s topic. I read the remainder of the “Orientation” in SDTS that is assigned for this week’s unit and came across a passage that has fascinated me.
“Could this analysis into levels help us understand some of the obstacles we encounter [...]

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Showing Time in Space

November 21, 2006

I recently came across an interesting discussion of the painting at the right, in a book by H. Peter Steeves, call The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday (SUNY 2006). Here is what Steeves has to say:
The front of the table does not match up on both sides of the rumpled tablecloth. [...]

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Away at Home

November 18, 2006

This post is based on a report by one of the participants in the TSK online program. She reported on an experience most of us have had: feeling more alive and more present while traveling.
It is easy enough to theorize about why this is, but in general, “why” questions, in the sense of questions that [...]

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Wonderment of Being

October 16, 2006

“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 [...]

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