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/

An interesting article Emphasizing Time over Space

Posted on October 15, 2012 by David Filippone

An interesting article, “A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space” at the link below: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/jay-mark-johnson-time-lapse-photography_n_1967432.html The article says: ““A slit camera emphasizes time over space. Whatever remains still is smeared into stripes, while the motion of crashing waves, … Continue reading →

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David – Practice Day 6/10/12 TSK Ex. 24

Posted on June 8, 2012 by David Filippone

TSK Exercise 24, Marriage of Sound and Breath This is a really interesting exercise; I worked with it years ago using recorded sounds that served as a repetitive order & structure of appearance, as I focused joining my breath with … Continue reading →

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The Unnameable

Posted on May 15, 2012 by David Filippone

In the brochure for the upcoming TSK Intensive Retreat it says, among other things (see link): http://www.creativeinquiry.org/develop/programs-and-events/classes-workshops-and-events/tsk-intensive-retreat/ “At present, we live in a world where our options have been set out in advance. We rely on fixed identities, solid objects, … Continue reading →

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Picture an Orange Ball

Posted on May 5, 2012 by David Filippone

Some of you may recall an exercise Jack gave us in a previous course in which students were asked to picture an orange ball. During the process of visualizing an orange ball we got to see directly, in our own … Continue reading →

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TSK Ex. 12, …when one thought fades and another arises

Posted on April 24, 2012 by David Filippone

TSK Ex. 12, asks that we observe our thoughts for the moment when one thought fades and another arises, in order to discern that subtle transition, which involves the momentary availability of space that has the quality of openness free … Continue reading →

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David — Practice Day – 12-17-11 Expanding Space

Posted on December 17, 2011 by David Filippone

Stretching or expanding space — Reflect on this question experientially and experimentally, not in order to solve it, but as a way of engaging the question of how space ‘operates’. Experientially, I find this a warm and inviting practice, it … Continue reading →

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Be aware what captures your attention as being part of a field communiqué

Posted on October 28, 2011 by David Filippone

I’m sitting on the porch again looking at the field of tall grass, mostly golden, like wheat in the sun. Suddenly, flash movement from the left, a dark figure jumping running, a young buck with antlers about six inches long. … Continue reading →

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Try focusing ‘not’ on substance, but on the transition

Posted on October 20, 2011 by David Filippone

During the last conference call Jack asked that we take a few moments and try focusing not on substance, but on the transition of the arising, not the specific arising itself. At that time I sat looking out the window … Continue reading →

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Article – ‘Why Time Seems to Slow Down’

Posted on October 13, 2011 by David Filippone

Here’s a link to an interesting article describing a paper in the October 2011 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by Edward O’Brien, Phyllis Anastasio and Brad Bushman, which “explores the role of your sense of entitlement on the … Continue reading →

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Focus – the knowledge aspect of the establishing activity of the senses

Posted on July 22, 2011 by David Filippone

From my porch, I’m looking out over a field of very tall grass; windblown uncut that is roiling green. At the edge, the farmer cut a wide path. He will return and cut the rest at some point, but now … Continue reading →

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