Category Archives: art

Getting Real…

Posted on October 10, 2019 by David Filippone

And the knowing world was created… from space and time… GETTING REAL by Ken McKeon It was to be stillness only time, What a pledge to make, But after awhile Thoughts started showing up Like singularities Constructed as the stars … Continue reading →

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ZERO SPEAKS…

Posted on April 15, 2017 by David Filippone

We might think of zero as a remark by space, a saying that expresses an allowing. Space shows itself in zero… As the symbol of form, the place-holder, zero speaks in all language and in each connection. As the voice … Continue reading →

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Shimmering of Time

Posted on September 9, 2016 by David Filippone

How can we understand the motion of time as ‘not going’? Some long-time TSK students have discussed how TSK might manifest in art. This might be one example… Anne Lindberg created an onsite installation at the Akron Art Museum using … Continue reading →

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When Space & Time Open

Posted on March 10, 2016 by David Filippone

(Click on the photograph to expand…) This photo is from the Facebook page of a Friend-of-a-Friend, taken by James Smith. You could call it ‘Apples in Winter’, or maybe ‘Candy for the Soul’, dessert for the eyes… What particularly struck … Continue reading →

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Lightness of Being

Posted on September 16, 2015 by David Filippone

My friend Ken has a serious illness. He spends a lot of time at medical facilities, it isn’t like he has much choice about it. What does one do while waiting? Idly page through magazines looking at pictures while preoccupied … Continue reading →

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Noticing Space

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Michael Gray

I appreciated the article by Ajahn Sumedho—from Tricyle, Fall 1995—that Jack posted. Not only is it a wonderful appreciation of spaciousness which is remarkably consonant with the TSK vision, but it tells its own story independently of the TSK vision.  … Continue reading →

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Ty Mawr 2015: poetic experiments

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Caroline Sherwood

During our mini-retreat in the lovely retreat house, Michaelgarth at Ty Mawr convent (27 Feb-1 Mar 2015), we experimented with looking at a couple of the diagrams in LOK  and writing short spontaneous responses. Here are some of them: PAGE … Continue reading →

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Vase-Face Interplay

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Caroline Sherwood

I wasn’t able to attend last week’s class because of  travelling and US time change. Listening afterwards, I wanted to share my experience of attempting to balance the simultaneous seeing of Vase and Faces. I noticed to be able to … Continue reading →

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‘Patterns of incoherence within coherence’

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Caroline Sherwood

On our mini-retreat a couple of weekends ago, we experimented with looking at images from LOK (page 2 & 136) and writing spontaneously whatever occurred. Some of the results of this will  be posted on the soon-to-be-available UK corner of … Continue reading →

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“Story of Your Life and Others”—by Ted Chiang

Posted on December 7, 2014 by Michael Gray

Ted Chiang’s story, which Jack recommended, is an exploration of a TSK-kind of experience in which an alien language expresses a non-linear and non-sequential relationship to time.  Utterance is a kind of calligraphy in which the first brush stroke already … Continue reading →

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