A small child walks into a hardware store with his parents. He doesn’t register the screws and nuts or any of the other materials he has no prior knowledge of, but does see the display of brightly coloured buckets and spades and is instantly drawn there. The father, who has been working on a DIY … Continue reading Awakening
Tag: Perception
Being
They say that Zen is a system of contradictions and that just when we think we are beginning to understand it, it turns things on their head and we are back to square one. This is a deliberate way of helping us to change our perspective and not to become trapped by our own thought … Continue reading Being
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
Black and White
We know that nothing is just one thing and not another. Every colour holds traces of every other colour, just as species are related, languages are similar, thoughts, feelings and emotions cross all boarders. Nothing is black and white and that in itself is something to celebrate – as we can never tire of the … Continue reading Black and White
Ego
How many times during the day do we utter the words “I” or “me”. We are encased in the bubble of ego, of self-identity, of separation from all else. Our problems and personal issues are all encompassing, all important to us and they can rule our lives when we look no further than our bubble. … Continue reading Ego
Perception
When we walk a path we've taken over a thousand times, and one time it is enveloped by a thick blanket of snow, we cannot recognise a feature in it. The path is a stranger to us, the landscape suddenly unfamiliar. The same can be said when darkness falls and we are plunged into the … Continue reading Perception
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