Layers & Levels

Layers & Levels Introduction Part Two

The Layers and Levels Series forms a book with three sections.

Layers & Levels Chapter Four: Story One

No matter how we strive to banish the Dark and Ugly sides of our Nature, we must value them for all have a place under Heaven in this our Sacred Realm; moreover, once we have made a vow we should keep it no matter the consequences trusting that a just reward will be ours in this life or the next.

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

Layers & Levels: Punto 2

Trudging home in the snow

Each crunch under foot

Telling the tale of our heartbreak

Layers & Levels Chapter Two: Of Yin and Yang and the Five Phases

The language of symbol is a portal into insight about natural experience with thus observed nature displaying further layers and levels of insight into how to read such experience; indeed reality reveals itself as a living process of continuously self-expressing symbolic language.

Layers & Levels: Punto 1

Peasant gourmet: one of many things at which the French excel!

Layers & Levels Series Chapter One: The Five Skandhas

The five skandhas basically describe what and how we experience ourselves as a ‘me’ or ‘we’. There are different layers and levels to this experience which is why they are such a perfect fit for Chapter One of this Series.

Series: Layers & Levels Introduction

The following series will gradually explore an idea which has been steadily emerging of late namely that experience, aka ‘reality’, is never really just one thing, rather many things at once. This is not an especially original or earth-shaking notion, but it keeps coming up because so often people express opinions or make plans as if it were not the case, that reality all happens on one level, that there is one single, definable, perceivable, understandable reality without different layers and levels.