Subject: Deadline extended: Reflections of the Moon 🌘

Deadline Extended: submit your artwork, poems or other writings on the theme "Reflections of the Moon"

If the eye sees the moon reflected in the waters of a river, the present experience is the continuously changing flow of water illuminated by the light of the moon. But then we name it, calling it ‘the reflection of the moon.’ We verify the truth of that name in each succeeding moment. Repeatedly confirming the echo of our initial perception, we perceive a static image of the moon, while the ‘present’ play of light on water recedes from view.

Inspired by Love of Knowledge by Tarthang Tulku

Submit your work by November 26th.

Center for Creative Inquiry has launched a new online magazine featuring TSK-inspired content, including essays, poems, photographs, and other artistic reflections related to the Time, Space, Knowledge vision. New Perspectives on Creative Inquiry publishes a diverse array of content to inspire new ideas, new explorations, and new questions, sparking opportunities to tap into the richness and multidimensionality of experience. We will be running contests with a different theme every eight weeks.

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The Self in Question

Online seminar with Jack Petranker
January 6 - 8, 2022

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us
is forced upon them by our conviction that they
are themselves, and not anything else,
and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Our world is shaped by space, time, and knowledge. Events happen in time, the reality we know appears in space, and our ability to experience is shaped by the kinds of knowledge available to us.

Usually, we think of space, time, and knowledge as factors we cannot change—larger and more powerful than we are. But when we look with care and appreciation, we realize that space, time, and knowledge are fluid and alive. The only reason they seem so limiting is that we see them through the eyes of the self—the actor we put at the center of what we do and what we encounter, the unquestionable owner of experience.

In this program, we will call the self into question. Following a path of inquiry laid down in Rinpoche’s Love of Knowledge, we will look at the stories we use to make sense of experience, the positions we adopt that close down alternatives, and the limits we impose when we claim that knowledge is what the self knows.

Dawn Spell

by Ken McKeon

I am the blue air open sky today,

I bear the seed of light,

The living dawn core radiance,

The break up of the night spell,

The unwavering build

Of the forward driving

Mantric day rush,

The loom first known in gull cry,

Sensed by eye lift

And tongue riff,

They all derive with me,

We share the birthstone,

As common

As a calendar,

But a lot better,

I observe the silent pelican

As it cores the breaking wave,

I fly through too

To demonstrate

The certainty

Of my beating heart,

Doing so used to shake me up,

Not any more.

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The Center for Creative Inquiry (CCI) explores alternate forms of knowledge and inquiry and their potential to bring about fundamental change at the individual, cultural, and social level.

CCI headquarters is located at the Mangalam Center in downtown Berkeley, California, USA.