Michael F. Gray, Author

Slowing Down and Filling Up

This week, doing a TSK exercise (“Going without Going”–modified to allow the ‘goer’ to remain seated, instead of walking very slowly, which for me...

This past Sunday, I noticed myself turning in imagination to Eric, my long-gone mentor, and sharing with him an inspiring thought that I had...

This morning I was doing an exercise called “The Object and its Glow”, which invited me to discover experientially that I (the viewing self)...

Arriving at my sister’s house in Canada, for my first visit in a dozen years, an odd familiarity arose, mixed with a feeling of...

My father (Francis Maplestone Gray) once shared a surprising story with me (or perhaps I only heard it through my sister, who was more...

As with the question “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” we can ask “Which came first, time or this moment?” “Once upon...

Am I standing or floating in the stream of time? “We do not let satisfaction be a reality. We try to achieve it in...

“If you want to locate Space, Time and Knowledge in relation to the usual ‘knowing self’ picture, let all objects be ‘space’, the observing...

An appointment is like a buoy on the tossing surface of a lake. If I cancel a meeting with someone, I fear that it...

I attended a funeral at a Catholic church last week, and I felt like a spectator at an ancient dramatic performance in which costumes,...