I find it terribly ironic that we have in places, such as Second Life, virtual reality Buddhist temples, when in fact the whole point of Buddhism is to remove the individual from the trappings of mentally projected virtual realities—typically emanating, in the literature, from ‘self.’
The rhythm of the remembering and the forgetting are eternal. Why am I here and what have I been doing? Our quests dull in questions to the ebbing truth, only to be refreshed upon the sin curve outing into the zooming out of Shakspears plays and the roles we create for ourselves. What am I doing amoungst these illusions and for what purpose have I brought myself here?
An Anti-teaching is an attempt to snap the yardstick of the mind with the yardstick of the mind. Strange koans for strange minds. Unconditioning for all those capable of turning shapes into words!
• THIS is only a neurological event—please remain calm.
I have been looking into the works of aleister crowley lately and the occult in general. I first got interested in crowley through TOOL, specifically Danny Carry and Blair Blake. To get a grasp on this topic I found that I would need to study many diverse types of knowledge.
11:11 AM December 21, 2012 is the CONCRESENCE of all NOVELTY into a single moment - the present. We will realize that creation is not something that happened billions of years ago, but IS happening, right now, in the depths of our being. When we stop categorizing the world and learn to relax into the experience of NOW, we will see creation flowing all around us.
Recently I've been listening to a lot of talks on youtube about meditation, spirituality and growth.
These talks have all been beautiful reminders, full of insight. There are teachers are from many different spiritual traditions, but seem to be teaching the same thing, at the root.
What do you do if you’ve undergone a profound, like-changing mystical revelation and you want to articulate it in a way that’s workable, comprehensible and will make people take you seriously and not simply dismiss you as a headcase? Unless you already have an appropriate platform in place, it’s not an easy one.
I've been expanding my mind for a little while now and I found the concept of a Kōan very enlightening. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan
Alan Watts (1915-1973) was one of the most widely read and listened to philosophers of the 20th century, and is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism. For more than forty years, Alan Watts earned a reputation as a foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophies for the West.
In an earlier post, The Luck Factor, I mentioned the influence of endorphins contributing to synchronicities. Endorphins are released during extreme exercise, a crisis situation, sex, child-birth, meditation, and challenging creative endeavors. But also Intense conversation is another trigger, as in the following story.
if the hand is full
the hand needs more
but if the hand is empty
it has no knowledge of space
understand, that to utilize one's hand
it must be devoted to the task
if it is distracted with material
it can not embrace the intangible
empty the hand
All my favorite things
are in the ground
I put them there
and I put them where
there was no ground --
I buried them in the sky
I inflated them
pushed them up and out
and pushed myself down
way down
I put myself below
and I put myself above
I was in two places --
two pieces in two places --
I just want to be in one piece now
When I walk out in front of traffic
and feel all those thousand radial tires
moving across my body
at an unconscious rate
of miles per hour,
or when I decide
to take that plunge
down from that blurry height
from whichever height I stand
when you're below me
please look on me
and notice where my body
ends and the street begins
notice how it is hard to
differentiate the two --
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
