We invent things we believe we are lacking. We call them new. They are not new; nothing is new. (Lookin’ at you, pistol shrimp.) Everything in nature is in us and everything in us is in nature. When we read in Urgency. that, “All things must be expressed but you don’t have to be the […]
Our full, whole, true nature is No-Thing, which is to say that we are non-existence and existence. We can see this in the following logical exercise: If we strip away all things in existence, what we’re left with is nothingness. But nothingness is a concept and concepts exist in intelligence—except for this one. This concept […]
Heights exist in time. Noospheres, a fancy word for mental spheres, also exist in time. The noosphere mimics height measurement with hierarchies. One of the hierarchies we humans set up is called, “spiritual.” These, on their best day, are composed of dead truths—insights experienced, described, and held up as ideals to live by or strive […]
Considering how much of our average day is spent imagining, creating, daydreaming, night dreaming, trapped in fake arguments with real people in our heads, it’s clear that we are a swirling mass of the real and the unreal. Some triggers to the unreal are real and tangible. They are physical stimulants—like coffee. But some are […]
Those who hypothesize that this universe is a computer simulation and we’re all video game characters end their supposition on that astonished note. They, to my knowledge, have not taken it to the next level: if we’re someone’s programming then are they debating whether or not to make us conscious the way we do with […]
Dream Time Have you ever become lucid in a dream only to have the characters around you stop acting their roles and try killing you? I’ve talked and written elsewhere about how this has happened to me numerous times and how stunned I was to see it play out in the movie Inception. I’ve toyed […]
What is a vow? What does it mean to make or take a vow? A vow is a promise, a pledge to dedicate oneself to something. Given that, how can we say that a vow is a choiceless choice? Did I, myself, not make a decision in the moment after my big enchilada experience that […]
Understanding the difference between a wannabe and the genuine article, you might rightly ask, “But what of the genuine bodhisattva himself? Is there even such a thing?” (Or herself. Or hermself—shall we combine the two? Okay, maybe not.) Yes. And No. Speaking from experience, I can tell you that after the big enchilada experience to […]
Many who understand that enlightenment cannot be possessed because it is the dissolution of the possessor turn to the Buddhist path of the bodhisattva to help dissolve themselves. A bodhisattva is one who experiences nirvana—the selfless state free of suffering—but refuses the call to live in that freedom so that he or she may help […]
What is acting but pretending to be another persona, be it person or anthropomorphized other? The actors with the most depth are in touch with their feelings. You cannot understand another person’s feelings until you understand your own, and you cannot understand your own feelings and not understand another’s. The two understandings are one understanding; […]