The man in whom Tao acts without impediment Does not bother with his own interests And does not despise others who do. He does not struggle to make…
(audio available for paid members) My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon. Taoist saying
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(audio available for paid members) Die while you’re alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want: it’s all good. Bunan
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(audio available for paid members) Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
(audio available for paid members) In the knowledge of the Atman, which is the dark night to the ignorant, the recollected mind is fully awake and aware. The…
(audio available for paid members) The truth is that enlightenment is neither remote nor unattainable. It is closer than your skin and more immediate than your next breath.…
This is the personal account of a two-year journey during which I experienced the falling away of everything I can call a self. It was a journey through…
(audio available for paid members) These four questions came from Dr. Kriben Pillay, editor and founder of The Noumenon Journal.
(audio available for paid members) “But with the clear certitude of the self’s disappearance, there automatically arose the question of what had fallen away — what was the…
(audio available for paid members) Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For…
A Conspiracy Theory If life is but a dream, to what do we awake? The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly…
(audio available for paid members) “How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake,…
(audio available for paid members) “This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. The winds…
(audio available for paid members) “You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can…
(audio available for paid members) “This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager,…
A conversation between protagonist Larry Darrell and Somerset Maugham, author as himself, from The Razor’s Edge. Larry begins. “According to the Vedantists, the self, which they call the…
(audio available for paid members) “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Lewis Carroll
(audio available for paid members) “Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them, there is nothing.” Jean-Paul Sartre
(audio available for paid members) “All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a…
(audio available for paid members) “A point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in…
(audio available for paid members) “I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is – ‘Be what you would seem to be’ -…
(audio available for paid members) “I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams…
(audio available for paid members) “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of…
(audio available for paid members) “Granted, granted I’m a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what’s to be done if the sole and express…
(audio available for paid members) “Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside of them, not realizing on the…
(audio available for paid members) “Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” Rainer Maria Rilke
(audio available for paid members) “How can the coyote reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the roadrunner is that wall, shoved near to me.…
(audio available for paid members) “No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” George Bernard…
(audio available for paid members) “What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it.” Ramana Maharshi
(audio available for paid members) MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the…
(audio available for paid members) “If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as…