bold concepts re practical unity awareness: Fw: [tsk] What's TSK inquiry,
and what 'new core values' might TSK promote? Steve Randall: Rich Murray
2010.08.14
[ re "Time, Space, and Knowledge", Tarthang Tulku, Rinpoche, 1977 ]
http://tska.info/prsnt.html
http://stevrandal.wordpress.com/about/
http://stevrandal.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/whats-the-zone-of-peak-performance/ ]
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Subject: [tsk] What's TSK inquiry, and what 'new core values' might TSK
promote?
In a paper titled "Human Values in a Changing World," compiled by Gaynor
Austen from handwritten notes by Maaida Palmer, late director of the Turiya
Yoga Centres in Australia, Maaida wrote:
* Why are values so important to mankind?
* Have new values come to be recognised, or are the old values constantly
being presented?
. . .
In this changing world, has anyone discovered a new human value that he
wants to disclose? It appears that our task is rather the stocktaking of
values we already have.
. . .
The optimists say the flux in the current lifestyle is but the passing out
of old outmoded values that have not worked and the introduction of new
values yet to be born.
. . .
Is it possible to introduce a system of values based on knowledge of the
nature of the human person - one that each individual can understand to be
true and not just a system that is believed, or seems to be true?
To me it seems that with TSK, Tarthang Tulku promotes the previously
underrated value of the process or method of inquiry, of clear seeing,
sensing, and exploring, going into all apparently fixed, or `real', or
'true' reference points, structures, beliefs, and assumptions, in an open,
nonskeptical, yet challenging dis-covery process that eventually, directly,
and effectively transparentizes or dissolves all structures, limitations,
and fixed dynamics. Inquiry is a valued means of discovery, or dis-covery.
Apparently 'simply' clearing the clouds is sufficient, and simultaneously
shows the sunlight.
Within the TSK texts, paradoxical, shared, naturally inherent, core
'values' or quality-facets are described. Those following were derived
from (yet may not faithfully represent) statements in the texts:
1: flow
. tension and resistance without effort by a self.
. coordination and order with complete spontaneity, and without
control by a self.
. dancing without a sense of a dancer, or doer of the dancing.
. a particular person doing something while there is complete
spontaneity, with no doer.
. attribution of causation without experiencing a causative entity
or event separate from an effect.
2: creativity
. Appearance and events can have identifiable causes and sources within the
world, and yet things can feel as though they come out of nowhere, with no
source or cause.
. The same objects, people, and world can be recognized repeatedly over
time,
and yet be seen as fresh, original appearances each time.
. People and things can be assigned a historical identity while felt to be
discontinuous
or to be recreated moment by moment.
3: accomplishment
. While we can attribute production and service to a particular individual,
that person can experience the work as an activity that flowed by itself,
with
no effort.
4: objective space
. Familiar things, while separate and distributed over ordinary space, are
nevertheless
unseparated and even intimately connected within and as a higher order,
dimensionless space.
. While the physical world may be a referent for any activity, no world
order
seems fixed outside and around us.
. Objects may have an inside and outside, yet they need not have any
perceived
depth.
. While there may be measurable lengths, there is no felt distance.
. Although objects have volume, they aren't experienced as extending in
space,
or exclusively occupying space.
. Geographical coordinates and points, and "here" and "there" can mark
positions;
however, there are no felt spatial divisions or extension-everything
is the same space, "here."
5: mental space
. I can have a mind without needing to feel that it's separate from others'
minds.
. I can have a mind without feeling that it's stable, continuously existing,
or
independent of "the outside."
. I can have a personal space or position without having to feel separate
from
anything/anyone else.
6: identity
. There can be people with names and histories who nevertheless have no
sense of substantiality or continuous existence.
. There can be recognizable personality without an experience of
personality-owner
and without a feeling of repeated patterns.
7: locus of knowing
. While an individual can know and perceive, knowing need not feel like it
belongs to a person, takes time, or radiates or occurs from a center.
. When a particular person knows an object, there may be no felt distinction
between knower and known.
. When a particular person knows a locatable object, knowing can be
experienced
as a nonlocated encompassing field.
8: content of knowing
. While particular objects, events, or thoughts are known, still there can
be a
sense of comprehensive, unbounded knowing.
. The perception of a particular object need not involve a sense of a
perceiver
nor any feeling of separate context for the object.
. Thoughts can express distinctions without referring to experientially
separate
objects, people, or events.
. Memories need not refer to a separate past position, and hopes,
anticipations,
and expectations need not refer to separate future positions.
. Pain, suffering, and emotion can appear without a relatively positioned
victim
or owner.
9: well-being
. There can be a person with a personality, reasoning, emotion, sensation,
intuition,
and different body parts without any sense of fragmentation or feeling
of separate "parts."
10: need and fulfillment
. A person can have desire and preference, or can pursue this or that course
of action, without any sense of need or deficiency.
. Whether a situation is labeled positive or negative, ugly or imperfect,
fulfillment
and complete appreciation are immediately available.
. Within a finite duration of clock time infinite fulfillment is available.
. Although most of the world is outside the individual, a person need not
feel
cut off from or lacking anything.
11: feeling of time
. There can be distinguishable past, present, and future times without any
felt
separation between the times.
. Events can "occur" without any experienced movement or transition from
one to another.
. Clock time may be finite and limited, but the experienced duration of a
period
of clock time is not at all fixed.
12: feeling of reality
. While objects and people exist and interact, they can seem ethereal and
insubstantial.
. When events occur, it can seem dreamlike, as though nothing at all is
really
happening.
. The clearer our perception, the less we see reality as a compounded
object.
. Although knowledge may refer to physical and mental realities, certainty
is diminished in proportion to how experientially separate entities seem.
. Experiential fragmentation of objective reality destroys certainty.
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