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/

Walkabout – Session 11, Week 3 – Exploring not-knowing

“See if you can get in touch with the ‘feel of the field’ at a time when you are already feeling negative… let the feeling lead you into an exploration of the not-knowing hidden within the ‘witness’ knowing… remember that … Continue reading

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Practice LOK 50 – Inquiry – A Doorway to the Zeroless

Try listening to this song while reading this… Take the [TSK] vision into your daily activity, observing lightly and free from judgment the effect it has in your life. Lately music, though not the only opening, has been easy access … Continue reading

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Walkabout, Session 10, Week 5 – An Illustration

This is an illustration of the Walkabout practice of letting “the ‘here’ of ‘I am here’ open into the fullness of space.” If you can, try listening to this song while reading this post as an aid to deepen the … Continue reading

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Walkabout-Session 9, Week 5: Former Student

A former TSK student from a while ago, saw my Walkabout practice notes on the TSK Inquiry website, and decided to work with it, and post an accounting of her own experience. Her description is striking so I decided to … Continue reading

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The Not-here of Now

Once again, try listening to the song as you read this… Once in a while I come across an artist that seems to whisper directly to me, there is a kind of shared-space, a communion wherein I seem to merge … Continue reading

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Teacher Training – Session 9 – Allowing Space a Focus of Concern

We’ve recently been exploring Space, and how we can experience it without making it disappear into becoming a thing, and thus losing it’s ‘open Spaceness’? How can we not take the experience of open space and enclose it, objectify or … Continue reading

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I was just playing…

I was just playing… a juxtaposition of ideas, sounds, and quotations that opened my eyes and mind… Try listening to this song while you read along… “As long as we remain closed to the openness of space, we tend to … Continue reading

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Walkabout Practice Week 5:

Instruction: Look for the dynamic of the field communiqué within appearance. Put differently, envision substance as a message communicated forward by the mind in ongoing acts of naming. In doing this walkabout, give ‘substance’ an expansive definition. It includes anything … Continue reading

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DTS Exercise 20 – Exhibition of Knowledge – DF

The original post under this title was lost due to some corrupted files on this website. In order to preserve the content I am providing a link below to a copy of the original post and all accompanying comments that … Continue reading

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‘Story of Your Life’ – Short Story by Ted Chiang

Jack recommended a short story by Ted Chiang entitled ‘Story of Your Life’, available for purchase on Amazon… Jack said: “…it offers a very interesting take on time and the structures of language, and it’s also a beautifully crafted story, … Continue reading

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