Tag Archives: imagination

A Tendency to Exist

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Michael Gray

Sometimes he finds himself in a boat, paddling along on the undulating surface, rarely getting as far as he wants. Sometimes he is walking in a desert where the mountains in the distance seem more like a backdrop than a … Continue reading →

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Empty Space

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Michael Gray

My life changed forever twenty years ago, We had driven to a look-out on Route 1 in northern California where, once everyone had parked their cars, the group gathered in a circle and did a few chants. Then they headed … Continue reading →

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The Dreaming of the Sands

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Michael Gray

We can examine the sinew and bones of experience for their secrets, but it may be that the mystery of time is to be found elsewhere. I have the privilege of knowing people who are working on books and classes … Continue reading →

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SPACE WITHOUT DIRECTIONALITY…

Posted on May 7, 2020 by David Filippone

SPACE WITHOUT DIRECTIONALITY… Ken’s poem… or playful inquiry, as always, invites me to a space… where a tentative order could cohere, where incipient structure could begin to formulate… to source, to origin… a depth where seeds of knowledge uncurl. The … Continue reading →

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INQUIRY INTO THE POSITIVE

Posted on March 20, 2020 by David Filippone

INQUIRY INTO THE POSITIVE TSK students have an opportunity to expand not only their concepts and ideas about space, they also work with exercises that gradually expand their ‘experience’ of space. This conceptual AND experiential expansion can be deeply profound. … Continue reading →

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WHAT IS POSITIVE TIME?

Posted on April 22, 2019 by David Filippone

WHAT IS POSITIVE TIME? “Perhaps we have memories of times when wonderment and wholesome feelings seemed natural; if so, we can invite this presence into our lives. Can we recall positive thoughts and feelings and imprint them in our memory? … Continue reading →

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GIANT BODY – THE HAND…

Posted on May 30, 2018 by David Filippone

GIANT BODY – THE HAND… We continued to explore the GIANT BODY exercise by going smaller… that may sound contradictory, but you might say we ‘felt’ our way more than conceptualized. And ‘feeling’ is what opened the thought, feeling breathed … 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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‘Imagining’ Time and appearance

Posted on August 11, 2016 by David Filippone

In the book, ‘Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space,’ Rinpoche employs a kind of metaphor for a geometry of space, to illustrate how the unformulated assumes form. Where this might happen is at the edge of the future, where the … Continue reading →

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Right and Wrong At The Same Time

Posted on September 4, 2015 by David Filippone

Hi! My cousin, a teacher with Ph.D. in Art History sent this to her brother, and Astro Physicist at Cal Tech, and to me. It’s a short article from ‘The Onion’, where everything is satire. She thought we would find … Continue reading →

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