eh@houxu.UUCP (E.HOMOLYA) (12/21/83)
I have participated in a few evening sessions with some of the leaders of the Dharmadhatu Center of New York. They are geared towards teaching elementary Buddhism. They are sincere and devoted to their practice. Please excuse my inability to explain with exactness. The Time, Space, and Knowledge (TSK) vision is not traditional Buddhism. Although I have yet to see the contradictions between the truths of the two systems, my knowledge of Buddhism is imperfect. TSK deals with demonstrable truths that the reader is invited to experience for his or herself. For example, memory is experienced as a thought of a thought of a thought ... of an initial awareness. This is the first exercise of the section on knowledge. Interpreta- tions are left to the reader. You can have a field day with this exercise alone! What a person takes for continuity of his or her consciousness or identity is an attribute of the thought process. Given a stream of thoughts, random thoughts will be of previous thoughts. This thought of a thought of a thought ... or memory of a memory of a memory ... sustains the idea that there is continuity. It also says a lot for how conscious the whole process is. I read an explanation about how the continuity of the consciousness depended upon the thought process in a book on Zen many years ago. I never expected I would see that as a result of meditation, let alone experience that in one of the first few experiments with the TSK book. It's like being handed a gold mine and, without the refined abilities of visualization, having virtually to dig with bare hands.
dew@ihlts.UUCP (Donald E. Wilson) (12/21/83)
The Chicago chapter of Dharmadhatu is located a 3340 N. Clark.
A curriculum of educational courses is available, including
introductory programs open to the public. In addition, there is
offered a secular program called Shambhala Training.
Anyone interested can contact me for information.
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Donald Wilson
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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(312) 979-4105