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Greetings!
It's time to start planning for
the online program for this year. We have a theme, some new technological
developments, and a few calendar changes that will affect the start of the
program. The program is open to everyone, whether you have previous experience
with the TSK vision or not.
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Theme: The Self in Question
One of the key insights of the TSK
vision is that there are ways of knowing that are not the property of the self.
As that insight awakens within us, we come to learn that there are ways of being that also do not center on the
self. Then the way opens for the new vision of reality-and our role within
it-that stands at the heart of TSK.
Explorations of the self played an
important role in last year's program. This year I want this to be the central focus. We will work mostly with material from Love of Knowledge, which offers
remarkable ways of questioning the self, the structures of knowing and being
that the self sets up and relies on. As always, readings will be short, and practices will
mostly be the kind that you can do in the middle of daily activities. There
will be three sessions in all, starting in September and continuing into June. CCI
will offer a retreat in the summer, with the possibility of another retreat in Europe if there is enough interest. You can take the
first session independently (September-December independent of the others).
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Calendar
I will be traveling Europe in late
October, and will be offering TSK-related programs in both Holland
and Germany.
With that in mind I want to structure the fall session differently. We will
start with a three-week introduction, running from September 27 - October 11,
in which the readings will be from Knowledge
of Freedom, also by Tarthang Tulku (See below for complete readings for the
first session.) Then we will take a three-week break (during which online
discussions will continue). On November 8 we will start up again and run for
six weeks, through December 13. This helps me handle my calendar. It will also
give people who take part in the programs in Europe the chance to join the first session in a way that will work for them
Those of you who have taken the
online program before know how it works: we have a 30-minute phone conference
each Sunday at 9 AM Pacific Time; that call is also recorded and available to
listen to online. During the week, you can log on to discussions on the CCI
website, and I post an introductory essay each week to help frame our
explorations.
This year we will start off the
same way. But when we start up again in November, after the 3-week break, we
will try switching to a different system. For people without high-speed
internet, there will be no change, except a new phone number to call. But for
people with high-speed internet and a webcam, you can join the Sunday live
session online, with the ability to see video of everyone participating. This
is an experiment. If it doesn't work, we'll switch back.
Registration
First Session Week 1 through week 9
Cost is $90 (USD) / 163(BRL) / 62 (EUR)
"TSK Online Course Registration - Self in Question"
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