Tag: meditation
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Reflections
it is preferable to never look through the same window twice…. …..you just gotta pay attention.
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Here is the world. Here are your tools.
With science, you can describe this vast world. With contemplation you can understand the science. With mysticism, you can experience the understanding. With deep ordinariness you can embody the experience.
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Jonathan Livingston Downwind
Waramanga Primary School held an ‘assembly’ once a week in the school hall. All the students and teachers came together to discuss (ie be told by the headmaster) school issues and events. Sometimes there were short plays or skits presented by the students. As we shuffled into assembly each week, there was this small portable…
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Exploring Idealism: Books and Interviews on Consciousness and Reality
Live the questions now. Maybe in the future, gradually, without noticing, one day away, you will live the answers. —Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Be Patient’ I am a huge fan of the philosopher Bernardo Kastrup.His stance is that the world as we perceive it is not made of solid material ‘stuff’ existing out there whilst we…
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The Illusion Paradox: Exploring the Thin Veneer of Truth in a World of Illusions
Out on our morning walk.Wow. Someone has gone to the trouble of stencilling this on their driveway. Perhaps they felt it would be useful reminder squinting out through their ice-scraped windshield as they back out into a freezing Canberra morning. In a world gone mad, it curves a half-smile across my sagging colon to think…
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Being you, being them.
Here is an interesting thought experiment that is useful when trying to understand the point of view of someone very different to yourself…or someone who you just don’t get. And perhaps experience some empathy and appreciation for the difference even when it is seemingly vast.1. Read through each phase and then take a few moments…
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Wild Mind.
Each morning I sit for 40 minutes. Just in the moment, without adding anything extra. Nothing to do. No one to be. Nowhere to go. Meditation reveals the basic contours of wild mind, and cultivates a return to wild mind belonging to wild earth. In its barest philosophical outlines, meditation begins with sitting quietly and…
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We do.
Nothing we do can stop time’s passage and all the things that keep happening that we don’t want, like aging and loss. Even with a very deep and well-established practice that has grown new neurons and reduced stress and accomplished everything else that scientific studies promise, even then we still touch the sadness of life.…
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