Many people say 'perception is reality' without ever investigating the reality of that which is doing the perceiving.
The paradox of spiritual instruction: how do you give someone meaningful advice on how to achieve union with what was never rendered separate in the first place? Illusions are difficult to overcome because the human mind invariably bolts them into place as belief systems which are, sadly, no more real than day dreams. |
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MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS & MAGICAL MEASUREMENTS
Heisenberg's two-fold reality: There's the semi-real domain of the quantum world where all things, down to single electrons and further exist, but only in potentia, as statistically meaningful, probabilistic potentialities, which become real events only when we measure them.
Somehow, the act of measurement plays a supremely important part in making things real, which is probably why the saying 'You create your own reality' keeps hanging around in spite of the fact that we seldom pause to examine what it is that we're creating this reality OUT OF.
"Is it possible to divest oneself of the rotten rags of memory and live wholly by inspiration?" -- William Blake
Probably, but first have your keys welded to a body part.
Without wave function collapses, there are no observations. What does this tell us about noticing ANYTHING? First, a collapse is required. In the bible, this was called 'the fall.' Of course, there is an inner seeing -- a function of active imagination that, while it might also require wave function collapse, leads into higher and deeper topographies of the soul.
Wei Wu Wei refers to phenomena as 'the absence of emptiness'... the first time I read that, everything seemed to implode into double negation. Wei adds... "Do notice that a negative number multiplied by a negative number yields a positive value." Meaning? Perhaps that it is only because things are empty that they CAN appear. Appearance is like an act of mercy or something... or maybe... (trembling even to suggest it)... entertainment.
Self Knowledge 101: How can you find what you cannot lose? ( this question makes no sense at all until you seriously try to locate that within you which is actually experiencing this moment).
William Blake to Sir Isaac Newton: Be careful how you measure the universe. It just might become the universe you're forced to inhabit.
Have you ever noticed how people fare who are interested only in themselves?
The Buddha noticed. It was one of the cardinal realizations he had as to how to end human suffering.
The Buddha noticed. It was one of the cardinal realizations he had as to how to end human suffering.
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last horror out of Pandora's box is hope. Her trick is to keep you
longing for the very future that will kill you. Stare down her
seduction. Abide as innate aware presence and see what happens to the leaky promises of
time.
"Hope is nostalgia for the future." -- Robert Augustus Masters
"Hope is nostalgia for the future." -- Robert Augustus Masters
Confucius says, "Belief in two gods produces collateral homage."
The exact interval at which past becomes future cannot be found, even by the most precise, technologically augmented measurements. Yet, it's the place we live in. Kind of begs the question: is a place that can't be found actually a place? Perhaps it is only as the absence of emptiness that all this history appears.
The exact interval at which past becomes future cannot be found, even by the most precise, technologically augmented measurements. Yet, it's the place we live in. Kind of begs the question: is a place that can't be found actually a place? Perhaps it is only as the absence of emptiness that all this history appears.
energy follows thought. thought follows information. integrated information collapses a quantum wave function.
We generate stories and explanations OF AND ABOUT narrow-band aspects of reality we are presently capable of perceiving. Meanwhile, the infinite mandala of the moment eternally unfolds, virtually unnoticed by the analytic mind.
Shackled with mind forged presuppositions that collapse free presence into space-time linearity, we experience the present moment as a quicksilver simulacrum of both substantiality and limitation, hoping against all contrived, conceptual odds, that it is going somewhere at best rewarding, at least, bearable.
The above is no way to live; not even a genuine way to die.
The most difficult illusions to overcome are the ones that cause pain. Knowing this, why are we so slow to learn?
free will and ignorance -- nice combination, if somewhat meaningless
Meditation deconstructs what is not eternal; so does experience. This deconstruction affects all instances and all configurations of subject-object relations. The Buddha noticed this ongoing, perfectly effective dissolution of relative arising and labeled it, most appropriately, emptiness. We encounter this emptiness in myriad ways, usually by trying our best not to notice it.
In Egyptian myth, the soul sheds seven veils when the body dies. The last and most limiting of these is called 'the lie'.
Our conditioning convinces us of all kinds of things that aren't the least bit true while appearing incontrovertibly real.
The human ego loves to assert 'I AM'. True I AMNESS has no need of doing so.
The human ego loves to assert 'I AM'. True I AMNESS has no need of doing so.
Homogenization is vastly inferior to the grace that allows each component
to remain in tact, unless you're making a smoothie.
Paradoxitis -- Sensual pleasure is addictive because it ends so quickly. The bliss of surrender, on the other hand, is timeless, eternal, yet almost no one is interested.
The space within which everything manifests is infinitely more kind than anything -- from vile devil evil to perfect bliss big smiley. So relax. Space is home: the structureless freedom without walls in which abidance without effort prevails. Where do you think home is anyways? When you ask "Where is space?" and you realize that there is no answer that makes ontological sense, you're done.
The infinite tolerates generalities the way a caring parent tolerates a soiled diaper.
What does it mean to realize a cosmic truth
and forget it five minutes later?
According to popular psychic, Sylvia Brown, everyone chooses a particular ‘Life Theme’ to live out before they are born, complete with all its unique ups, downs and challenges laid out like the predesigned level of a video game through which you will adventure. Apparently you don't get to remember the life theme you selected. Neither, apparently, are you informed that when you wake up to your true nature, it becomes increasingly ovious that the 'me' who incarnates and defines itself through endless object relations, doesn't really exist as an autonomous entity. It is rather an unique emanation, distinct but not separate from totality. Shining example? When the sage, Ramana Maharshi, was dying, one of his students pleaded, "Please, Maharshi, don't leave us!" The Maharshi replied, "Where could I go?"
What does it mean to realize a cosmic truth
and forget it five minutes later?
According to popular psychic, Sylvia Brown, everyone chooses a particular ‘Life Theme’ to live out before they are born, complete with all its unique ups, downs and challenges laid out like the predesigned level of a video game through which you will adventure. Apparently you don't get to remember the life theme you selected. Neither, apparently, are you informed that when you wake up to your true nature, it becomes increasingly ovious that the 'me' who incarnates and defines itself through endless object relations, doesn't really exist as an autonomous entity. It is rather an unique emanation, distinct but not separate from totality. Shining example? When the sage, Ramana Maharshi, was dying, one of his students pleaded, "Please, Maharshi, don't leave us!" The Maharshi replied, "Where could I go?"
Ganoosh: You don’t have to die to find out whether or not reincarnation is true. You can incarnate into the next thought.
Jadpur: Out of what?
Ganoosh: Out of what is always already present.
Revisioning negative space
Form is the absence of emptiness -- (read anything by Wei Wu Wei)
Jadpur: Out of what?
Ganoosh: Out of what is always already present.
Revisioning negative space
Form is the absence of emptiness -- (read anything by Wei Wu Wei)
meat made of photons. go figure.
Sung to the theme of the old TV series
'The Adventures of Robin Hood'...
Buddhahood, Buddhahood
destiny of men
Buddhahood, Buddhahood
if not now then when
feared by the bad
loved by the good
Buddhahood, guess we should, knock on wood.
Making other plans is what happens instead of living a life.
Before a butterfly emerges from the cocoon, the caterpillar is first melted into a liquid.
T-Ray's reply: "This happens to me a couple times a night."
The revered 13th Century mystic poet, Rumi, was once asked why he talked so much about silence.
He replied, “The radiant one inside me has never said a word.”
Becoming is to being as trying is to doing, sort of. Life as we know it seems to happen in the 'sort of.'
Love draws boundary lines with disappearing ink (paraphrase of a line by Ken Wilber).
Love draws boundary lines with disappearing ink (paraphrase of a line by Ken Wilber).
"We're a very long term company. We think very long term." -- Bob Dudley, CEO, BP Oil
Sorry, Bob, an oil company that thinks long term is called a Solar Energy Company.
Sorry, Bob, an oil company that thinks long term is called a Solar Energy Company.
Sometimes I think there's a giant quantum lathe somewhere carving something stupendous from a block of would (sic). The sawdust flying willy nilly we call the multiverse.
Re: 'would'
All manifestation is the product of Pure Intent.
Re: 'would'
All manifestation is the product of Pure Intent.
When we begin to notice that we are noticing when we are noticing, the notion of dependent origination takes a whack upside the head, for now it is tacitly noticed that the noticing of noticing does not lead into a regress in search of the ultimate non-dependent noticer, but rather to a realization that the very ground and basis of noticing is already free.
The awareness that makes noticing possible is the ultimate gift, given so completely that we look in vain for someone to thank.
The awareness that makes noticing possible is the ultimate gift, given so completely that we look in vain for someone to thank.
Infinity has to include an infinite number of places where the whole notion of infinity gets mocked a lot.
