Tag Archives: time

Inevitable Acceptance…

Posted on September 14, 2017 by David Filippone

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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A rhythm of time…

Posted on August 27, 2017 by David Filippone

Listen to this as you read… Click on the link… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNzEPDVduP8 “…we can let time become our guide. Before we can act, we must be ready to bring out the negative; must see the situation we are caught in. Then, … Continue reading →

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A Long View…

Posted on June 6, 2017 by David Filippone

Once you reach a certain point in life, with a drifting mind’s eye, there’s an easy, sweet anamneses flashing to earlier times… to a pool of impressions that flicker through our lives, seeds that swelled over time. In that long … Continue reading →

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The Emergent Future…

Posted on June 1, 2017 by David Filippone

“To look at the emergent future, the one that actually takes place as distinct from future imaginations, we could start with simple sensory experience of the present, focusing at the edge of ‘now‘ just as it ‘moves’ into the future—the … Continue reading →

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MARKING TIME…

Posted on May 15, 2017 by David Filippone

What does it mean to ‘MARK TIME’? What is the event of ‘marking’? Or even a ‘mystical’ way of life? Rinpoche takes an inspiring look at this in ‘Keys of Knowledge’. He points to a ‘pointless-point’ saying: “Even the unknowable, … Continue reading →

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Open Knowing…

Posted on April 21, 2017 by David Filippone

Interesting thought experiment that becomes a ‘knowing‘ experience… How to open an object of the mind… [An object] can be looked at in and of itself. Or it can be seen as a point in a process. Sitting quietly, breathing, … Continue reading →

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Subject-Object Circling…

Posted on April 9, 2017 by David Filippone

Sometimes I feel I’m going in circles… the mind has me in a set way of thinking, tracks that lead me into repeating behaviors… habits… familiar ‘mind-sets‘ and biases. Problems I address using the same parameters, the same myopic perspective, … Continue reading →

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Depths of Feeling…

Posted on April 1, 2017 by David Filippone

The planet has a way of catching you by surprise… if you allow it…and are open to its seductive pull. Spring tends to entice, by color, light, kindly temperatures, scented breezes… certain flowers spawn tranquil feelings… like pussy willows… They … Continue reading →

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A Widening Perspective.

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Michael Gray

Like water flowing from far-off mountains, the lyrical flow of Longchenpa’s “Kindly Bent to Ease Us” laps at the edges of my awareness and I imagine myself being carried along by inner calm and wider perspective. Then I realize that—although … Continue reading →

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The Prior of Perception

Posted on December 18, 2016 by David Filippone

The Prior of Perception Tarthang Tulku in many of his books discusses in detail the dangers of NOT understanding the nature of Time… that is, taking Time for granted, because in a sense, time makes us uneasy, we tend to … Continue reading →

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