Time Conducting Time...TSK Exercise...wk 8...

We were asked to pose a question this week...so here is mine...

Even if, we become apt in conducting Time in more potentially alternatively positive ways, is it not still the quality of how we experience this Time, or how we interpret that experience that is most important, and not the content of what is being conducted?  One person might conduct a sailboat excursion, another a walk on the beach...whose to say which had the most fruitful and joyful experience?  One might go to college, become a great scientist, and in the eyes of the world be very successful; still another might become a fisherman, only catching enough to feed and support his family, happy none-the-less...who would be considered more successful or to have reached their potential?  

I have a book marker that states “Blossom where you have been planted.”  Seems to me that we waste an awful lot of time trying to figure out where we should be and what we should be doing, instead of truly Being where we are and loving what we are doing now...this is not to mean that where we are and what we are doing cannot change, or maybe even should change, nor does it mean that we have little or nothing to do with whether it does change, or how it changes...change is very constant, most of us are well aware of that, but what does not have to change is our perspective of the presence of joy within our very Being...no matter what.  I dunno...seems like I have once again gone around the block, or ridden the train to nowhere, just to be reminded that I am very content right where I am...

Sometimes when I work with others, and my energy gets depleted (which occasionally it still does b/c I am still in the process of learning how to make healthier choices and also take ‘correct action’ where others are concerned, not based on my own sense of ‘knowing’ but upon the ‘knowing’ and ‘wisdom’ and ‘truth’  within the Joy of Being), I begin to question what I am doing...it can be quiet overwhelming and periodically I do long to just NOT be around sick people for a while...of course I am always ever-aware of where I came from, and that tends to put things ‘back’ into perspective, but I also have to take sabaticals from time to time to replenish my own energies.  But I always end up being happiest when I just do what is in front of me to do...whether that be going to check on or just spend time with my mom, encouraging my sister, talking to my daughter or son, or working with another alcoholic/addict, or supporting someone that is just having a rough time of it, or staying to myself and taking care of my own physical/emotional/spiritual needs.  I can remember something that Adyashanti said once, that Awareness would teach you how to live life, and I find that to be true.  It is like everything is already planned out to a great degree, and if we do not ‘blossom where we have been planted’ we will just continue to go around in circles getting dizzy, but we seem to always eventually experience being drawn back to the garden and soil of our roots...one way or the other, and until we learn how to blossom where we have been planted, we will not be completely...happy, joyous, and free...

I learned a long time ago, that the way to control anything, is to give up the idea of control...but with TSK, it seems that this can be opened up further, and this is what is done when the aliveness of Time is allowed to conduct itself.  Sometimes the ‘feeling’ of joy and freedom are so wonderful, that awareness is lost in bliss.  However, to open that bliss up, or maybe out through awareness even further, is the goal of TSK.  There are so many ways that awareness is opened up, but since it is not use to this new way of ‘knowing’, and there are so many ways that this potential for knowing can express itself, endless really, that it becomes an awesome journey of experiencing the Joy of Being...and also the knowing of awareness, in this aliveness of Time and openness of Space.

Something else I wanted to address which was in last weeks instructions, was how this aliveness of Time and openness of Space are different.   What I have experienced, is that the aliveness of Time has more to do with Joy of Being or the freedom of the Spirit or energies, whereas the openness of Space has to do with opening Awareness or Knowing through Compassion of heart...One seems to be inward and the other outward...when the two are one fluid, flowing experience, there is no separation.   There is a marriage of Knowing through compassion within the Joy of Being...

 I have been reading another book by Tarthang Tulku called The Joy of Being, and it has amazingly gone hand and hand with the last two weeks of reading and instructions.  I have been experimenting with opening awareness through the senses, and also using various Kum Nye poses which allow energy to flow freely without obstructions.  

Everything that I am learning and experiencing through this wondrous TSK vision is also deepening my clarity of the scriptures I grew up with as a child and continued to study as an adult, and have always loved.   Those deep spiritual truths that have always and continue to resonate within my heart, are finding more and more clarity within awareness.  The threads of truth within all spiritual teachings are connecting at a richer level, and I have been drawn ‘back to my roots’, physical as well as spiritual, to gleam the meaningful wisdom and purpose of my own story, in all humility...which has enabled me to ‘Blossom where I have been planted.’

much joy and love, always, star...

Fall 2008 - Unit One: Inquiry, Space

October 6 - December 5, 2008
Davidu
1.  Layers of Mind with TSK
2.  Exploring Layers of Mind with TSK 
3.  Space of Memories of Layers and Contexts
4.  Expanding with TSK
5.  Expanding - Revealing the Field
6.  Condensing Experience with TSK
7.  Week 7, Generating Space
8.  Tracing the Tendency toward Solidity

Balder
1.  Layers of Mind (TSK Practice Notes)
2.  Deepening Layers of Mind
3.  Week Three: Exploring Space and Form
4.  Week Four: Expanding Layers of Mind
5.  Subject-Object Reversal (TSK Class 9)

Debyemm
1.  Layers of Mind (TSK Practice Notes)

Winter 2009 - Unit Two: Thoughts, Stories, Self

January 12 - March 13, 2009

Davidu
1.  TSK Course Two - Time (Thoughts, Stories, Self)
2.  Week Two - Thoughts that Establish
3.  I'm Telling (TSK Unit 2, Week 3)
4.  Unit 2, Week 4 - Defining Stories
5.  Models, Stories and Self - Week 6
6.  The Founding Story of the Self (week 7)
7.  Imposing Reality & the Cycle of Seeing, Week 9

Balder

1.  TSK Online Course (Unit 2)
2.  Watching Thoughts (TSK Class 2, Unit 2)
3.  Telling Stories (TSK Unit 2, Week 3)
4.  Telling Stories 2 (TSK Unit 2, Week 3)
5.  Personifying Thoughts, Embodying Space (TSK Unit 2, Week 5)

Starlight
1.  Adventures with Time, Space, Knowledge
2.  Noticing Thoughts - TSK Exercise
3.  once upon a time...tsk exercise
4.  restoring multidimensionality...tsk exercise week 4
5.  Memories, Models, Stories, Immediate Experience...TSK Exercise...
6.  self interpretation...models...tsk exercise...
7.  core self...tsk exercise...wk 7
8.  self and world given...tsk exercise...wk. 8
9.  Creating My Reality...TSK Exercise...wk 9...

Spring 2009 - Unit Three: Conducting Time and Knowledge

March 30 - May 29, 2009

Davidu

1.  Objects of Desire - TSK Class 3, Unit 1
2.  The Edge of the Future - Class 3, Unit 2
3.  How Time Recreates - Class 3, Week 4 
4.  Time is Our Life - Unit 3, Week 6
5.  My Summary of the TSK Class

Starlight

1.  Objects of Desire...TSK class 3...unit 1...
2.  on the edge of time...tsk exercise class 3...wk 2...
3.  Time...Past...Present...Future...wk 3...
4.  Opening up to Time...TSK exercise...class 3...wk 4...
5.  Unending Flow of Time...class 3; wk 6...
6.  Footprints in the Sands of Time...TSK exercise, wk 7...
7.  Time Conducting Time...TSK Exercise...wk 8...