How Is This Even Possible?

To see light. To Be. To Exist. To have any experience at all. Sidebar: What’s the point of suffering in order to not suffer – to sort of refine our happiness through trials and tribulations, refinement-by-fire, hone away the imperfections of the diamond, to prepare, burn away – as if there was anyone (separate) to…

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Where’s The Will? Or, Liberation in an Instant

One of the deepest mysteries of life is about free will. It’s obvious there can be nothing like will for a separate entity. A separate, individual will makes no sense, if you think about it: where would it be? Every thing is subject to cause and effect, causation, time and motion… what they call “nature…

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Being Is, Non-Being is Not

This phrase is heard in Parmenides’, poem On Reality, and in a different form of language in the Bhagavad Gita, and in A Course in Miracles: Parmenides: Two paths are open to investigation. The first says: being is and non­being is not. It is the path of certainty, because it follows the truth. The other…

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Tag, You’re It: A Poem and a Contemplation of Reality

In my journal, scribbled some reflections, and a little “poem” this morning …   Tag, You’re It. In short … One cannot stand outside reality, one is It. One cannot know that reality any more than one can see one’s own eye Except as an image, appearing in mind, looking in a mirror… What you…

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