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…
My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon. Taoist saying
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Die while you’re alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want: it’s all good. Bunan
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Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
In the knowledge of the Atman, which is the dark night to the ignorant, the recollected mind is fully awake and aware. The ignorant are awake in their…
The truth is that enlightenment is neither remote nor unattainable. It is closer than your skin and more immediate than your next breath. If we wonder why so…
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…
These four questions came from Dr. Kriben Pillay, editor and founder of The Noumenon Journal.
“But with the clear certitude of the self’s disappearance, there automatically arose the question of what had fallen away—what was the self? What, exactly had it been? Then…
Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and…
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…
(includes audio) “How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to…
“This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. The winds which passed over my dwelling…
“You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.…
“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.” C.G.…
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…
“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Lewis Carroll “Are there any lions or tigers about here?” asked Alice timidly. “It’s only…
“Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them, there is nothing.” Jean-Paul Sartre Here’s a fun question: Does intelligence exist? If so, is it awareness…
“All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snowstorm. We wake from one…
“A point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this…
“I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is – ‘Be what you would seem to be’ – or if you’d like it…
“I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly…
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority…
(includes audio) “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 purpose of every…
“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside of them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is…
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” Rainer Maria Rilke We’re expecting a storm to…
“How can the coyote reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the roadrunner is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there’s naught…
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” George Bernard Shaw I return to the…
“What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it.” Ramana Maharshi One belief-based objection to dreamstate-ism is that…
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents…
“If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a scimitar,…