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/

Not-Knowing and Opinion…

Not-Knowing and Opinion… Everyone MUST have an opinion! How else are we to feel substantial, that we have value, that we’re like, SOMEBODY? Really? We tend to gather beliefs and opinions like bundling leaves… they tend to pile up inside. … Continue reading

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ABIDING IN THOUGHT…

ABIDING IN THOUGHT… I can ponder and perpend what is immediate and beautiful in my life… right here, this instant… the bright sunlight filtering through the trees touches a candle at the window… it’s shaped like a pear, now lit … Continue reading

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IN THE TIME OF THINKING – What does that phrase mean?

IN THE TIME OF THINKING – What does that phrase mean to you? Do you discover it in your experience of the exercises we have been working with? The word ‘intimacy’ relates to deep within, the essential nature; intrinsic… to … Continue reading

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DO YOU MOSTLY THINK IN THOUGHTS OR IMAGES?

For class, I was asked to write a page or so on the question… EXPERIENTIALLY, DO YOU MOSTLY THINK IN THOUGHTS OR IN IMAGES (or in some other way)? It’s a ‘tricky’ question. It invites internal inquiry and observation. But … Continue reading

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A DAZZLING HUMBLE MOMENT, hiding in experience…

“THE HUMBLE MOMENT, when seen as time, space, and knowledge, is a target worth aiming at. It’s the vital center of the universe; if we hit it, we explode everything that prevents fulfillment, attaining everything that fulfills.” Tarthang Tulku. ……..‘Inside … Continue reading

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WHAT’S HAPPENING?

Opening the point… “The starting point of knowledge is the knower, the ‘I’ of ‘I am here’. Can we open that point? How would we begin, without immediately turning that beginning into another starting point? How do we pursue this … Continue reading

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LIGHT AWARENESS…

Sitting on the porch after breakfast watching as the edge of the ‘bomb cyclone’ passes. Wind-chill is 7 degrees, with up to 40 mph wind gusts… will be much colder tonight. Saw the red fox trolling the frozen field for … Continue reading

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Feeling the Field…

I listen to this playing as I read… a background of breath and sky, a hypnotic and melodic resonance… Listen as YOU read… (Click on the link) “Where Breathing Starts”… https://youtu.be/sH6mRLO5m2I …Time continues in the wind… permeates and abides with … Continue reading

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Inevitable Acceptance…

Most of the time it seems, I take myself to be physically separate from everything else, with an accumulation of experiences or memories that serve not only as a rudder in the flow of new experience, but also shapes that … Continue reading

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About Dying a Thousand Deaths…

I used to have a kind of ‘spacephobia‘ as a small child, particularly around sleep and nightmares. Scary things lurking in a dark and silent not-knowing… leave the nightlight on and the door ajar… a wakefulness to cling to at … Continue reading

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