Tag Archives: awareness

Layers & Levels Chapter Ten: The Neoplatonic Tripartite Cosmos

‘neoplatonism was the philosophical version of the Silk Road that bound the East and the West together giving them a shared lingua franca, lingua philosophia, by which they could deeply enter into transformative dialogue and intercultural exchange with each other.’

Layers & Levels Chapter Eight: Body Speech and Mind

Flowers in their flowering communicate the lovely enlightened language of Flowering Being

With manifold qualities of form, texture, colour, temperature, scent, beauty, sensitivity.

As with flowers so with all, from microscopic universes to macrocosmic spiralling galaxies…

Layers & Levels Introduction Part Three

Reality is more like a dream world conjured by a combination of one overall Being or Consciousness field within which unlimited particular living points of view including yourself, myself, the birds, the bees, the flowers and the trees and so on ad infinitum, each of whose perceptions constitute a unique dimension of ‘reality’, something I like to call our ‘Experiential Continuum’.

Layers & Levels Chapter Seven: The Five Buddha Families

Continuity in that the seeming gap between the wisdom of a fully realized Buddha and the ignorance of an ordinary sentient being mired in emotion-laden samsara is actually non-existent, much as the top and bottom sides of the same hand are mutually co-existent. In the jargon: wisdom and confusion co-emerge, or are ‘not-two’.

Layers & Levels Punto 4 Metacrisis

For reasons which Iain well describes, we have devalued Goodness, Beauty and Truth, appreciation and experience of which can be called ‘the sacred’, and instead dedicated ourselves to a limited, literal, left brain dominated approach which prides itself on reducing the complex terrain that is ‘reality’ into a clear, compact map and then goes on to believe that the map is real and what it is mapping, the actual terrain, is largely fictive.

Layers & Levels Chapter Five: Heaven Earth & Man

Venerating the past in itself will not solve the world’s problems. We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present. When you appreciate a painting or a piece of music or a work of literature, no matter when it was created, you appreciate it now. You experience the same now in which it was created. It is always now.

Layers & Levels Chapter Three: Introducing the Six Realms of Samsaric Existence

“As we go along from moment to moment, day to day, life to life, awareness and our thoughts keep shaping the life we lead. Cumulatively, the effect is tremendous. We can create for ourselves a tunnel lined with rags and deprivation or an open world of wealth and genuine communication – dark worlds, bright worlds, moderate worlds – so many different worlds can be created based on karma 1 we keep creating through our thoughts and projections.” 2

Article 76: Subjective vs Objective Value

Wikipedia:
In all its uses, the Tao is considered to have ineffable qualities that prevent it from being defined or expressed in words. It can, however, be known or experienced, and its principles (which can be discerned by observing nature) can be followed or practiced.