Human beings are very good at analysing and labelling, at categorising and filing things into manageable boxes. But what can we really know for certain? We know without a doubt that the sun rises and sets every day, without exception. We know now that we don’t have to perform sacrifices or rituals for this to … Continue reading Certainty
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Dreams
Waking life wallows in the indulgencies of the word-hoard. Words spin webs of deception and delusion. They shape and falsify our experience...serving human masters of fear and vanity.* We are captives of our own intelligence. We label everything in a bid to master it, under the guise of understanding. There is nothing we experience which … Continue reading Dreams
Labels
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." * Names help us to make sense of the world. Humankind has bestowed names for things as far back as history tracks and for the majority, this desire to label things, to give a unique identity, to categorize and organise, has offered some way of … Continue reading Labels
Duality
Duality is a figment of our imagination. There cannot be good without evil, up without down, so you cannot feel happier, hungrier, wealthier without the opposite existing in your mind. The illusion of this significant difference only arises in moments of contrast. I was happy yesterday, but today I feel sad. I only know I … Continue reading Duality
No time like the present…
Oh but to live like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday , today and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backwards for yesterday, forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." All there ever is, is this present moment. There … Continue reading No time like the present…
Zen musings 