Tag Archives: Higher Knowing

Walkabout-Session 9, Week 5: Former Student

Posted on March 2, 2015 by David Filippone

A former TSK student from a while ago, saw my Walkabout practice notes on the TSK Inquiry website, and decided to work with it, and post an accounting of her own experience. Her description is striking so I decided to … Continue reading →

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Teacher Training – Session 9 – Allowing Space a Focus of Concern

Posted on February 23, 2015 by David Filippone

We’ve recently been exploring Space, and how we can experience it without making it disappear into becoming a thing, and thus losing it’s ‘open Spaceness’? How can we not take the experience of open space and enclose it, objectify or … Continue reading →

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I was just playing…

Posted on February 22, 2015 by David Filippone

I was just playing… a juxtaposition of ideas, sounds, and quotations that opened my eyes and mind… Try listening to this song while you read along… “As long as we remain closed to the openness of space, we tend to … Continue reading →

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Walkabout Practice Week 5:

Posted on February 8, 2015 by David Filippone

Instruction: Look for the dynamic of the field communiqué within appearance. Put differently, envision substance as a message communicated forward by the mind in ongoing acts of naming. In doing this walkabout, give ‘substance’ an expansive definition. It includes anything … Continue reading →

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Tripping Over Zero – A Walkabout Practice

Posted on November 25, 2014 by David Filippone

I’ve had fun this week with our walk about practice, the one where we ‘look for openness in time’s hidden occupancy, feel it as a “luminous energy…like the glow of a living being at rest”. We are told to “Look … Continue reading →

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TSK Ex. 28 – A Cycle of Seeing – revisited

Posted on November 22, 2014 by David Filippone

Early on in my TSK studies one of the important exercises for understanding space, the knowing process, and loosening assumptions about the ‘weighty’ and fixed ideas of self & identity was The Giant Body exercises. Later, I found The Cycle … Continue reading →

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Is each thought its own ‘logos’? Its own read-out?

Posted on August 23, 2014 by David Filippone

“…the question of whether or not thoughts automatically foreclose the possibility of an appreciative, open knowing… In that context, consider this statement (TSK 244): “The lower space we live in is not a solid and continuous place. It changes, becoming … Continue reading →

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LOK EX 48 – Exploring Space, Time, and Knowledge (Variation)

Posted on August 5, 2014 by David Filippone

LOK EX 48 – Exploring Space, Time, and Knowledge (Variation) Placing Space, Time, or Knowledge at the center of experience can shift old assumptions. With the exhibition of space central, the distinction between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ will not hold. With … Continue reading →

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TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings

Posted on July 30, 2014 by David Filippone

A while ago I wrote about my experience with TSK Ex. 26 – Transcendence of Pointings, an exercise I’ve worked with numerous times over the years. …while watching young birds dancing between green leaves in tree branches, thinking “That too … Continue reading →

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TSK Ex. 18 & 19 Past Present Future Projections…

Posted on November 27, 2013 by David Filippone

TSK Ex. 18 and 19, you will become more aware of how references to the past and future locate your present experience… will help to develop an increased awareness of the structure of ordinary time. With sufficient practice, this awareness … Continue reading →

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