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/

Are ‘acts of positioning’ the same as ‘timed-out meanings’?

It seems to me that at one level taking a position, perhaps a perspective, is our ordinary way of dealing with the intent to fulfill any desire, even the desire for meaning… Any ordinary intention, any concern or desire—even the … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings

A while ago I wrote about my experience with TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings, an exercise I’ve worked with numerous times over the years. …while watching young birds dancing between green leaves in tree branches, thinking “That too … Continue reading

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SPACE ARISING – DTS Ex. 10 & 9

I’ve long had a fascination with internal space, it progressed from youthful wonder to a gradual fixation or goal as I grew older, a search for spiritual depth. Reminds me of when I was a boy looking over the side … Continue reading

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What does the Field Communiqué Mean to You?

Assignment: Read Dynamics of Time and Space, DTS 16-22, which introduces the ‘field communiqué’. Write about this: what does this discussion add to your understanding? I have during calm observation become aware, below my usual level of contextual thought-spinning, or … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 14 — A New Focus on Space (Variation)

Savor the freedom from ‘narrow-minded’ preconceptions, taking this freedom to be the result of a new focus on Great Space. Experience the insight that the mind is not a rigid and continuous thing, but only an arbitrary setting. See if … Continue reading

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DTS Ex. 3 Playfulness of Thoughts

B. …Playful and relaxed in each situation, practice taking immediate action, responding instantly and without reflection as mental events arise—like a fighter countering an opponent’s move. Went to The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD the other day to see … Continue reading

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Listen and see at the same time – LOK Ex. 22 – (Variation)

If we focus on a particular interval between points A and Al, we find that there is a moment of transition—’X’—that cannot ordinarily be directly observed and thus remains unknown. Listen and see at the same time: in the ‘same’ … Continue reading

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DTS Ex. 4, D & E – Conducting New Knowledge

I returned to music as a medium to facilitate these sections of the exercise, specifically the kind of music that draws emotion from me, like the moon pulling on the tides, tilting me toward an overflowing – space swells and … Continue reading

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Funky Submarine Blues – LOK Ex. 14 Variation

Decided to take a LIGHTHEARTED approach with this exercise… TIME, a variation on how we move from point to point, or moment to moment. It was suggested in class that we look for ‘transitions‘ between moments, because this kind of … Continue reading

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Assignment Week 6: Reflect on “pervasive patterns of the thinking mind.”

Assignment: Reflect (or ‘meditate on’) the “pervasive patterns of the thinking mind.” Is this reflection itself a pattern of thinking? How can you tell the difference? A while back I posted my practice notes on the exercise, “Let sense experience … Continue reading

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