Subject: Online Programs: Opening Time & Space and Love of Music 🎶

Dear Friends,

Our summer season this year rests between the bookends of two retreats: we recently gathered at Ratna Ling Retreat Center for "Being Fully Present," our annual retreat in California, and we will end the season in Neu Plaue, Germany to explore what it means to be free.

Between these bookends, we are pleased to announce two program options this summer. The first is a weekly workshop led by Ignacio Ercole titled Love of Music, which will explore sound and listening as a gateway into the TSK teachings. This program is a drop-in course, which means each class stands by itself and you can drop-in to a single session instead of participating in the continuous series.

In addition, CCI's founder, Jack Petranker, will be offering a special 4-week TSK course titled Opening Time & Space. It has been several years since Jack has offered an online TSK course, so you don't want to miss it!

Our Creative Inquiry into the Law series will be pausing for a couple months, as I wish to take a bit longer to explore for myself the remaining topics in the series. However, if you were unable to attend the earlier events, the event recording from The Gravity of the Past is now available.

Finally, I wanted to share a film screening and conversation hosted by Beyt Tikkun and Science and Nonduality (SAND) which unpacks Palestinian experiences under Israeli occupation. These experiences weave a story that has been tugging at my heart, and so I pass this along to you as well.

Kind regards,

Morgan

Love of Music

A Time, Space, Knowledge Journey into Music, Mind and Being
with Ignacio Ercole

Wednesdays, 5-6pm, starting July 10

This course invites a transformative exploration of music, guiding participants on a musical journey to deeper levels of listening and understanding.

In this class, sound and listening will be the central aspect in an inquiry into reality, guided specifically by the dimensions of Time, Space and Knowledge Vision of Tarthang Tulku (TSK). TSK is a series of teachings questioning our limited understanding of these dimensions and unraveling the consequences of our lack of familiarity with them. The combination of TSK and music as a gateway into sound and space dimensionality can open up new frontiers of knowledge and let us enjoy the process of discovery as we learn more about who we are.

We will combine meditation, music-focused contemplative practices, and active exploration of rhythm and tone through movement. The class is open to anyone interested in exploring these topics, regardless of musical background or previous familiarity with TSK. No musical experience is needed for this class – only a curiosity about the deeper dimensions of music.

Opening Time and Space
Exploring the Time, Space, Knowledge Vision

Led by Jack Petranker

4-session online course starting Saturday, August 17, 10am - 11:30am

We inhabit space and act in time: nothing could be more obvious. But the Time-Space-Knowledge Vision introduced by Tarthang Tulku is all about questioning the obvious. This includes our understanding of time and space.

TSK tells us that space is not an empty nothing and time is not a linear sequence of moments. We only see them this way because of our understanding of who we are and our place in the world. When we challenge that understanding, we live in the world differently—fresh, clear, and with deep appreciation.

This 4-session course will rely mostly on the final chapters of Love of Knowledge, the second book in the TSK series, a resource that even devoted followers of the TSK Vision may not be familiar with. We will read and discuss short passages from the book online, and will conduct experiments in transforming time and space.

The course is open to newcomers to the TSK Vision as well as seasoned practitioners.

What does it mean to be free
Based on Love of Knowledge

Led by Jack Petranker
Co-produced by Nyingma Centrum Nederland

September 24-29, 2024 in Neu Plaue, Germany

We live our lives within limits we have learned to take for granted.

Because we put our own wants and needs at the center of experience, we live in a world where time rushes on from moment to moment, separating us from what we desire.

Because we are always reaching out for what we hope to possess, we occupy a small and close-off space. We rob ourselves of the joy of being fully present.

In this retreat, we will question the limits we impose on ourselves and the positions we impose on experience. We will learn how to connect with all that happens, and to appreciate more fully the beauty of the world we inhabit.

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.