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