221. Jack Petranker

Jack Petranker is the founder and director of CCI and regularly offers programs and online courses. A student of Buddhism since 1973, he is also the director of the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages and a faculty member at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute. He served as Dean of the Institute in Berkeley from 1988-1991 and as North American Vice-President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists from 1988-1992. He is the author of When It Rains Does Space Get Wet?: Learning to Live the Time-Space-Knowledge Vision (Perspectives on Tsk) (Dharma Publishing 2006), and has written numerous academic articles in consciousness studies, organizational change, political transformation, and the value of work as a spiritual practice. Jack holds a BA from Stanford in political science, an MA from the University of California at Berkeley in political theory, and a JD from Yale Law School. He has been a member of the California Bar since 1971. Other books: Light of Knowledge: Essays on the Interplay of Knowledge, Time. & Space (Perspectives on Time, Space, and Knowledge) New Way of Being New Kind of Knowledge The Center for Creative Inquiry Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 3/8/2014 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Jack Pertranker and the Center for Creative Inquiry 00:02:26 - Creative Inquiry and the TSK Vision 00:04:33 - The Nyingma Tradition and the Wealth of Practices 00:06:45 - The TSK Vision and the Center for Creative Inquiry 00:08:43 - Fishing in the Same Ocean 00:10:48 - Tapping into a Deeper Source of Creativity 00:13:08 - The Buddha's Dilemma: To Teach or Not to Teach 00:15:02 - Layers of Conceptual Assumptions in Understanding 00:16:47 - The Value of Variations 00:18:34 - Leaving Dry Land 00:20:04 - Introduction to TSK (Time-Space Knowledge) 00:21:22 - The Fundamental Notion of Inquiry 00:23:32 - The Interconnected Nature of Inquiry 00:25:45 - Two-Way Sensing and Questioning Assumptions in Self-Knowledge 00:27:14 - Challenging Assumptions in TSK 00:28:43 - The Life Drain in Routine Work 00:30:41 - Happiness in Occupations 00:34:35 - Living with an Open Heart in the Face of Tragedy 00:39:30 - Expanding the Perspective through Space 00:47:07 - The Earth Does Not Move and the Nature of Experience 00:52:40 - The Possibility of Personal Experience 00:58:05 - TSK: Everyday Teaching and Practices 01:04:07 - Becoming aware of space and questioning its relationship with objects 01:08:17 - Questioning Assumptions about Knowledge and Time 01:12:09 - The Dynamics and Structures of the Self 01:14:32 - Writing Plans and Challenges 01:16:26 - Stretching Capacity to Understand 01:18:18 - Exploring Different Perspectives 01:20:18 - Global Engagement and Language Diversity in TSK 01:22:13 - Concluding Remarks 01:23:47 - Discussion Group, Donation Button, Email Notifications and Audio Podcast Subscription