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WHY RECOGNIZE KNOWINGNESS

Posted on May 2, 2021 by David Filippone

In one of my classes, the question came up as to ‘why’ we should want to get back to recognizing Knowingness in our experience… Why is recognizing Knowingness in my day to day living good for me? I came across … Continue reading →

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THINKING THROUGH PERCEPTION…

Posted on May 14, 2019 by David Filippone

THINKING THROUGH PERCEPTION… Thinking involves many different mental processes. For instance, perceiving visually I most often take for granted that when I see something, it’s a fact. BUT… if I take the time to investigate what I THINK I saw, … 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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Explore a Memory, How Does It Feel?

Posted on September 18, 2014 by David Filippone

During last week’s conference call we took about five minutes of silence to explore a memory – what it felt like, how we distinguished between past, present, and future, and how it felt around the memory? Over the ensuing week … Continue reading →

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Article – Do We Know What We See?

Posted on August 3, 2014 by David Filippone

This short article seems to fit nicely with the theme of our course… Beyond What is So… and our questions regarding ‘acts of positioning’ and ‘timed-out meanings’. Wall Street Journal article… Do We Know What We See? http://online.wsj.com/articles/do-we-know-what-we-see-an-experiment-sows-doubt-1406820378

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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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Using Painting to Collapse Linearity to Reach Nuclear Time

Posted on July 21, 2013 by David Filippone

Rinpoche says, “Eknosis de-dimensionalizes time, collapsing linearity into the unity of the nuclear. The temporal mechanisms that give order to appearance appear ‘alongside’ the things or events they purport to order.” He goes on to say, “It is something like … Continue reading →

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Exercise — Reacting to a Surprise Event

Posted on April 24, 2013 by David Filippone

Exercise – An unexpected situation erupts: in your reaction is something being ignored, and in the order that you impose is something being added that has no real bearing? Thinking back over a range of ‘surprise‘ situations, one of the … Continue reading →

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