Category: Perceptions

  • The Second Attention

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    As I said before,” Master Fwap continued, “the mind is like an onion; it is made up of countless layers. The layers closest to the surface of your conscious awareness are the storehouse of your memories and experiences from your current lifetime. But beneath those layers are deeper layers that contain your past-life experiences, and deeper still there are layers that access the pure intelligence of the universe itself, which I refer to as the second attention.

    The second attention,” he continued, “is beyond structures. By structures I mean the dimensions of  time, space and mind. The second attention is a field of endless light that exists just beyond our grasp. It is the home of what human beings call magic and miracles.     from Surfing the Himalayas by Frederick Lenz

     

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  • Medical Research Freed from Religion

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    Medicine, 1080
    Medical research progresses at the Benedictine school associated with the monastery established at Monte Cassino in 529.

    Arabian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman medical works are translated into Latin by Constantine the African, a physician who has studied medicine and magic at Babylon and who is now disguised as a monk. His translations of Galen and Avicenna help to emancipate medicine from the religious bonds that have held it.

    Has medicine ever really been emancipated from religion? What say you about stem cell research?

    Image by Markus Wittl

     

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  • Basic Trust

    Trust

    To find our basic trust is to reconnect with our natural state that we have become separated from. A.H. Almaas

     

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  • Time

    Time

    Time is carving you…,let yourself be shaped according to your true nature. – Master Po from Kung Fu

    This is it, you’ve only got one shot, and it’s already started” – Roger Waters


    For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.  –  Marshall McLuhan


    Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
    Jorge Luis Borges


    “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”  – Frank Zappa


    Image from Berkus.net

     

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  • Santa Dreams

    Santa-dreams

    The platypus and the echidna have huge brains given their low intelligence. Scientists speculate that they need this higher brain to IQ ratio, because they do not have dreams to aid in the learning process.

    Image by R Wayt Smith

     

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  • The Past

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    What are the impurities of the personality?
    What will be clarified from the personality?
    The answer is simple: the past. – A.H. Almaas

     

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