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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 3: Vortexography
There are lots of different layers and levels even on this one-dimensional plane of a continuous, curved line on paper. There’s a lot going on in this one simple thing; as is true of all things.
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.
Haiku #104: Cosmic Copulation
clouds into sky
sky into space
such marvellous primordial joy
our universal birthright
Lyme Liturgy Extras: 1 “One”
“Consciousness and free will are foundational and exist from the beginning rather than emerging with the physical brain.”
Lyme Liturgy Series 5: Main Practice, Sending and Taking Part 1
Feeling the mother cervical soft spot of kindness, warmth and tender sadness
Touching the raw, naked heart of any feelings, moods or sensations, just as they are, right now…
Lyme Liturgy Series: 3 Sacred Being, the Basis
Flowers in their flowering communicate the lovely enlightened language of flowering being
With manifold qualities of form, texture, colour, temperature, scent, beauty, sensitivity…
Invisible powers of the Good
Of hobbits and wizards casting spells
Seed Syllables Take Two
Seed Syllable Take Two:
Dylan in tux and Tom Brady of the Bucs analysis.
Haibun #2 Torii Take Two
weary traveler
journeying through endless samsara
abandon your collected burden to the deep
and be here reborn:
fresh, awake and naked!
Haibun #2 Torii
the journey is the goal
is endless journeying
one portal into another
Article 49 Seed Syllables
Seed syllable: the quintessential character of any given mandala.
Personare: The Truthful Mask
Article 37 Personare: the Truthful Mask In the previous Article, a novel meaning for the word ‘gods’ was suggested, namely the sense of presence both generally and in relation to particular moments or phenomena. A mask like the example given in the previous Article may have no presence until it becomes the object of attentionContinue reading “Personare: The Truthful Mask”
How the Gods have made up Reality
Article 36 How the Gods have made up Reality The above mask picture I found by searching for ‘sacred ritual implements.’ Presumably this mask was worn by a high priest or some such in order to summon the presence of a deity. The simple premise behind this Article is that on the level of humanContinue reading “How the Gods have made up Reality”
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