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/

Look Into Something Close at Hand

My friend, poet, and fellow TSK student, Ken McKeon sent me a poem in response to a brief exercise we did in class. We’ve actually done many variations on this practice, but in this case Ken was simply having a … Continue reading

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Tripping Over Zero – A Walkabout Practice

I’ve had fun this week with our walk about practice, the one where we ‘look for openness in time’s hidden occupancy, feel it as a “luminous energy…like the glow of a living being at rest”. We are told to “Look … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 28 – A Cycle of Seeing – revisited

Early on in my TSK studies one of the important exercises for understanding space, the knowing process, and loosening assumptions about the ‘weighty’ and fixed ideas of self & identity was The Giant Body exercises. Later, I found The Cycle … Continue reading

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Glowing Journey in Time – DF

As each memory ‘appears’, let it expand in intensity or energy, or in the quality of light it bears. ‘Assign’ this glowing energy a positive feeling, even if the feeling tone of the ‘original’ experience was not positive. Let each … Continue reading

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Write about the last paragraph of KTS Ex. 25

It’s interesting how looking backwards on memory can clarify how time unfolds in the present. I found it wonderfully fascinating how a little 5 minute exercise of looking at a memory (and hours of reading and inquiry) opened the door … Continue reading

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Explore a Memory, How Does It Feel?

During last week’s conference call we took about five minutes of silence to explore a memory – what it felt like, how we distinguished between past, present, and future, and how it felt around the memory? Over the ensuing week … Continue reading

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Is each thought its own ‘logos’? Its own read-out?

“…the question of whether or not thoughts automatically foreclose the possibility of an appreciative, open knowing… In that context, consider this statement (TSK 244): “The lower space we live in is not a solid and continuous place. It changes, becoming … Continue reading

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Awareness as a Reflective Surface – TSK Ex 29

To some friends, I described a night out and showed some pictures of us enjoying wine and cigars. A seemingly harmless, night out, some fun, etc. So later, I was looking back on this evening, a little like savoring certain … Continue reading

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LOK EX 48 – Exploring Space, Time, and Knowledge (Variation)

LOK EX 48 – Exploring Space, Time, and Knowledge (Variation) Placing Space, Time, or Knowledge at the center of experience can shift old assumptions. With the exhibition of space central, the distinction between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ will not hold. With … Continue reading

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Article – Do We Know What We See?

This short article seems to fit nicely with the theme of our course… Beyond What is So… and our questions regarding ‘acts of positioning’ and ‘timed-out meanings’. Wall Street Journal article… Do We Know What We See? http://online.wsj.com/articles/do-we-know-what-we-see-an-experiment-sows-doubt-1406820378

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