The human world is all concepts made manifest. You can’t look at a human construction without recognising its conceptual basis.
But what of the constructions of nature?
Who’s conceptions are they?
The human world is all concepts made manifest. You can’t look at a human construction without recognising its conceptual basis.
But what of the constructions of nature?
Who’s conceptions are they?
What are we but a self-knowing energetic field of consciousness? And what is the nature of energy if not a quality of consciousness? Self-examining our nature, that is, exploring consciousness with consciousness naturally results in the discovery of our formless nature. When we settle in to the direct observation of our essential subjectivity we find…
I was never really grateful before. Not really. I took too much for granted on one hand, and on the other I was focused on what I didn’t have, what I wanted. There’s not much room for gratitude in that way of thinking. It was only after I awakened that real gratitude came online for…
We can think of the Garden of Eden story as being about a perceptual and conceptual shift that can be reversed any moment. If we’re chewing on that Forbidden Fruit then we’re all full of judgements: good, bad, right, wrong. It’s exhausting and life becomes work and misery. But if we just stop judging in…
No-one has ever experienced unconsciousness for even a moment. There is zero first-person evidence for it’s existence. Consciousness is always present. It’s only the content that changes, comes and goes. You are that consciousness.
The fourth state, turiya, pure consciousness, is present with all other states. But at first it’s perceived, as its name suggests, as one alternating with other states of consciousness. Until through repeated and consistent exposure it’s revealed to be the foundational and ubiquitous, singular reality.
Psychologically we all have aspects of ourselves that are contradictory and even counter-productive. Each of us is like a band of miscreants with different personalities and motivations. So getting ourselves to move in one direction requires taking our various, and sometimes conflicting, motivations and inclinations into account. I like silence and solitude, but I also…