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)
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
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
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