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/

Week 4 – LOK Ex. 14 – Moments Between Moments

Normally, I’m engaged in a stream of activity as time seems to fly by. Just taking the time to observe this ‘flying by‘ has a slowing affect on the rapidity of these seemingly discrete and momentary attention-getters — it seems … Continue reading

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Week 3 – TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings

As a result of further practice and some TSK class work, I’ve done some fine tuning to the way I’ve been observing time at different levels. I’ve returned to the activity of painting a watercolor to dive deeper into time … Continue reading

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Week 1 – Linear Time

Observing my activities reveals I – ‘now‘, relate to everything else ‘then’, which reveals a past-present-future structure of linear time. I constantly attempt to freeze time in order to take up a memory of someone, or a situation, to reference … Continue reading

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TSK Haiku by David Filippone

Splicing Time’s moments – ‘This is now‘ and ‘that was then‘ – Creates the distance Building rhythms – ‘I am here‘ and ‘you are there‘ – Conceives the divide Understanding this – All imagined spaces merge – Universe connects

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Week 9 – TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings

I used to work with watercolors painting landscapes. The process from beginning to end is the implementation of countless pointings. There is an initial impression, which includes (a kind of whole), much more than will end up on paper. The … Continue reading

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Week 8, TSK Ex. 25 – Intimacy

I found an interesting example, on a simple scale, of what happens (as the passage from KTS pp. 423-4 describes) when subject and distance dissolve in intimacy and the object understands itself: “As the act of knowing unfolds, the image … Continue reading

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Week 6 – KTS Ex. Co-Relation, (Ch.56)

I decided to use ‘music listening‘ as the activity for exploration. I previously experienced listening and standing as if removed from the activity to control it by emphasizing what appeared in the sense field and mental space, (melody, rhythm, modulation, … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 17 – The Object and Its Glow (continued)

Observing the way situations seem to present themselves, I noticed the either/or and this or that nature of how I assessed what was happening. The polarities seemed to jump out at me; to do something or not, based on judgments … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 17 – The Object and Its Glow

Last week I was watching for ‘bewilderment in the background‘ and noticed it before some decisions, also at the beginning of trying to figure out something. This ‘unsureness’ or unknowing seems to be part of the process of consolidating, a … Continue reading

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TSK Ex. 9 B, C – ‘open up’ defining regions

Sitting on the porch, I looked out under tree branches in the back yard toward the corn field beyond. While focused on the corn I realized I had recorded and named the sequence of what was unfolding as a running … Continue reading

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