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/

Meditation & Understanding Time – Week 4

TSK p.139 says that we may try to break out of our sense of being trapped in ‘lower time’ by practicing meditation or other spiritual disciplines… The book, ‘When It Rains Does Space Get Wet,’ p. 41 adds: “If you … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 18 & 19 Past Present Future Projections…

TSK Ex. 18 and 19, you will become more aware of how references to the past and future locate your present experience… will help to develop an increased awareness of the structure of ordinary time. With sufficient practice, this awareness … Continue reading

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Walk-around Exercise for Week 3

…with respect to some problem you encounter during the week. What happens when you treat the problem itself as a symbol or a pointer that suggests a ‘higher’ space in operation? Does it even make sense at this point to … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 30 A Subject-Object Reversal – David

Observe the knowing subject and the difference in quality that distinguishes it from the known object. I chose an object across the room, a jade colored candle. As the knowing subject I observed how I felt about the object. I … Continue reading

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Tranquility of Space – David

Unable to sleep I decided to sit up and meditate. I felt good, enjoying the moment. My breath felt almost mint cool on the inside of my nostrils, the darkness behind my closed eyelids swirled with an almost green tint. … Continue reading

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Describe a time when you experienced the joy of inquiry

The assignment: Describe a time when you experienced the joy of inquiry (or learning, or discovery). My journal is filled with moments like this. Do I pick an early one from long ago, or the gift of an extraordinary peak … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 24 – A Marriage of Sound and Breath

This is part of what I posted before from some years ago… I used a sound machine set for the sound of a babbling brook, which repeated like a tape loop. Both ‘babbling’ and the repetition of the sounds had … Continue reading

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Expanding – (emotionally)

Instruction: Take some aspect of experience and expand it… I used the CD, “Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone“, to touch and heighten my emotional level, and then rode those waves wherever they took me. What I describe, expanded my experience … Continue reading

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“The experiencer can be transformed directly into light” DTS p.168

In the TSK vision, a new experiencer is called for, an experiencer transformed directly into light. We hear this call as mystical, but there is no mysticism in sunlight, and the light we are naming now is more accessible than … Continue reading

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Using Painting to Collapse Linearity to Reach Nuclear Time

Rinpoche says, “Eknosis de-dimensionalizes time, collapsing linearity into the unity of the nuclear. The temporal mechanisms that give order to appearance appear ‘alongside’ the things or events they purport to order.” He goes on to say, “It is something like … Continue reading

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