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/

I’m Telling… Unit 2, Week 3

A Tower of Tales I seem to be surrounded by stories. I tell them, and in a sense, they tell me. I can think of how I am my story, the whole lineage of struggles and triumphs, the forays into … Continue reading

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Week 2 – Thoughts That Establish

An example of observing thoughts and how solidly they establish my contextual world, unless I take the time to look into and discover HOW they are doing this, is a current situation of mine. Due to the economic times I’m trying, … Continue reading

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Week 8 — Trace the tendency of mind to move toward solidity…

I noticed when my brother challenged me on a political opinion I immediately began to separate from him.  I felt there was a position I needed to defend, the position was part of my conceptual identity. There was a sense ‘I’ … Continue reading

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Week 6 – Condensing

I’ve always had trouble with the ‘condensing’ exercise, but something Jack said on the conference call clicked, then visualizing the candle, and I recognized condensing in my experience. I didn’t seem to understand what the instructions meant to condense or distill experience … Continue reading

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Week 6 – Vizualizing Object in Space

In class we were asked to do a momentary exercise to see if we could recognize the field communiqué — the act of how knowing space communicates forward from the previous moment. We were to choose an object in the room … Continue reading

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Week 5 – Expanding – Revealing the Field

I feel fully present in this moment, feeling deeply intimate with what is, sitting on the porch surrounded by color; the cave of maples caving in, slowly crumbling, dropping lemon-yellow leaves, against emerald patches, with dots and waves of crimson, … Continue reading

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Week 4 – Expanding

I like working with this exercise, so many different ways to expand, but perhaps because I am often visually stimulated I was particularly struck by Bruce’s photo of contiguous, overlapping, and successively appearing circles or bubbles, as if arising out … Continue reading

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More on Memory and Space

The intent was to call up a memory, and I think what arose were those images that unfolded as well as the contextual space in which they unfolded. That contextual space was a sub-space, if you will, of a much more … Continue reading

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Week 3 — Space Within a Memory

Perhaps this is mundane, but I remembered a trip yesterday to Home Depot, a building supply warehouse. Focusing on the space within the memory, I recalled the huge volume of the space inside, all the way up to the corrugated … Continue reading

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Week 1, LOK Ex 2 — Layers of Mind

In an effort to keep my entries here short, I can say that the exercise fostered a focus that seemed to shift from ‘things’ to space, and that experience opened ultimately allowing me to see, in a more direct way, … Continue reading

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