Author Archives: David Filippone

About David Filippone

David Filippone has been a student of Tarthang Tulku’s Time, Space, Knowledge (TSK) vision for over twenty-five years. For the past fourteen years, he has studied TSK and Full Presence Mindfulness with Jack Petranker, director of the Center for Creative Inquiry (CCI). He also participated in programs offered by Carolyn Pasternak of the Odiyan Center. David curated the CCI Facebook page for five years, which is often TSK-focused, and he currently serves on the CCI Board of Directors. The CCI Facebook page can be found at the following link... https://www.facebook.com/CenterforCreativeInquiry/

Another Humble Moment…

Sound and symbol in mind-space merge with images seeing and remembered… breathe in the air we share… the scent of salt and more. Feel the space of the unfolding moment as it swells and spills over in waves… and spreads … Continue reading

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A Moment’s Notice…

There was a moment that never was before, never will be again, it could only be experienced once… You might look back on its disappearing but memorable vicinity here… a luminous reflection off a vision of light … A simple … Continue reading

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Connecting dots makes ‘bits’…

I’ve read some interesting and provocative books and articles lately about our political leaders and policies, some hugely complimentary and some strikingly derogatory… lots of deducing and speculation on both sides of the spectrum vaticinating from prosperity to disaster. The … Continue reading

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Promise of Spring…

The ‘promise of Spring’ is really a hope and a prayer, there are no guarantees in linear time as much as we like to pretend there are. Plans we make… do they ever really turn out ‘exactly’ the way we … Continue reading

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Small World…

Where do we look to discover our habitual patterns…beginnings? At the boundaries? One beginning might be the dawn of a new day, or even at the end of an old thought, when the new one begins… ‘A small world‘…mind universe … Continue reading

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The Space Not-Known…

Re-reading ‘Revelations of Mind’, by Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, and once again looking into the feel of presence, and degrees of experiencing it. For me, it’s often seeing ‘how’ things are coming to my attention, not just the reasoning of cause … Continue reading

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Be Aware the Unknown…

Ring out the old and listen to the silence for the yet unknown sound of the new… The words unspoken… the ‘FEEL‘ of undefined space…open… inchoate… AUBADE 3 By Ken McKeon Finally there is No rest at all Within the … Continue reading

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The Prior of Perception

The Prior of Perception Tarthang Tulku in many of his books discusses in detail the dangers of NOT understanding the nature of Time… that is, taking Time for granted, because in a sense, time makes us uneasy, we tend to … Continue reading

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The Humble Moment…

THE HUMBLE MOMENT… The Space in which the sound just occupied…open now…blue as can be…as far as listening can see. The prior of touch, the essence of ‘feel’…I am this… THE BLUES By Ken McKeon Think on the sound that’s … Continue reading

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The Aliens… “Story of Your Life”

A couple of years ago Jack had us read a story for TSK class. In the short story entitled, ‘Story of your Life’, by Ted Chiang, aliens arrive on earth. The new motion picture ‘Arrival’ is based on the short … Continue reading

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