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 1, TSK Ex. 9A

Hello, Rinpoche speaks of ‘open uncommittedness‘ that consolidates or ‘freezes’ into subject and object, and it resonated with a book I’m currently reading on cosmology by Paul Davies in which, among other things, he attempts to appeal to scientific inquiry … Continue reading

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Thank You

I’ve been traveling for the last few days and was unable to post here, I did want to say thank you to everyone who contributed their experiences, in particular Gaynor, Peter, Arthur, Michael, and of course, Ron Purser and Steve … Continue reading

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Unit 17 – TSK Ex. 25 & TSK Ex. 26; ‘Intimacy’, and ‘Transcendence of Pointings’

I was toying with TSK Exercise 25 – Intimacy, while watching young birds dancing between green leaves in tree branches, thinking “That too is ‘I’,” and in doing so, the focus that I was holding seemed to expand, encompassing much … Continue reading

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Unit Sixteen – DTS Ex. 9 – Generating Space

DTS Ex. 9 – Generating Space While sitting under the trees on a sunny afternoon, I focused on the intervening distance between me and the tree line at the end of a field. That space opened to the blue sky … Continue reading

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Unit 15 – LOK Ex 13-18 – Inventing the Past and Projecting The Future

LOK Ex 13 – Inventing the Past  I remember when I decided to retire after having worked for decades.  It involved prior planning and preparation, and resulted in some major changes in my life in terms of what direction my … Continue reading

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Telling Stories…

In ‘Dynamics of Time and Space’, Exercise 11 – Telling Stories, I was looking for founding stories, (self-stories of success and failure, sorrow and joy, gain and loss, praise and blame – LOK p. 224), and stories “that makes possible … Continue reading

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Getting more specific about TSK Ex. 34

  Regarding TSK Ex. 34, we were asked: What happens if we focus primarily on the quality of light, the color of light, the feeling of energy flowing, and the knowingness that the light embodies? What about combining some or all … Continue reading

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Unit 12 – KTS Ex 44 – FEEL OF SPACE

Having recently experienced some physical pain, I had an interesting experience dealing with it, and the healing properties of space. (Note: this is not about comparing pain, but rather, embodying it. No doubt there are others who have experienced comparatively … Continue reading

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Space Communication – with KTS Ex 48 –

The quote from the book by Jack Petranker, “When It Rains Does Space Get Wet?” p.63, had me inquiring for quite awhile: “Appearance makes space manifest without ever becoming anything other than space.” I didn’t have trouble with the second … Continue reading

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DTS Ex 4 – Conducting New Knowledge

Regarding keeping the mind at the focal point of arising… I’ve seen how as a subject I am often carried away with the linearity of the stream of appearances; shifting attention to the past and future, like the needle on … Continue reading

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