The idea of enlightenment often comes with the expectation of liberation and healing from all kinds of human suffering, be it trauma, sickness, grief, or loss. It doesn’t. Enlightenment doesn’t happen to someone; rather, the “person” disappears and is seen for what it is: a fictional character based on memory, conditioning, and belief. “I am”… Continue reading Liberation for no-one
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Fragment #6 – Engine of Enigma
I am standing in front of this huge engine in the museum – a sign says it’s an aircraft engine. These technical, mechanical objects usually don’t speak to me at all, they just don’t raise any interest in me, especially when I read their names. Still, I approached it, without having a question about its… Continue reading Fragment #6 – Engine of Enigma
What does it mean?
Meaning is part of the creation of the mind. Inherently, life has probably no meaning that can be fathomed. However, biological beings seem to be driven by survival instincts. Nature appears to be very raw when it comes to reproduction and food choices. Via the brains, these mysterious organs of humanoid organic beings, impressive minds… Continue reading What does it mean?
Logic
Logic is a method of cognition, a method to look at information and process it, a function the brain provides. It has nothing to do with “reality” or “truth”. but is rather part of creating/processing “reality”, based on causal perception and interpretation. Reality is a paradox. It is and is not. It’s a product of… Continue reading Logic
Instant #3 -Mystery
This is the sound, this is the scent, this is the sight. Different names separate direct vibrant experience from you that travels through your sensory and nervous system, exchanging and merging information. There is a mystery around you that you try to grasp, but all of your attempts end up at blurred edges, where they… Continue reading Instant #3 -Mystery
Chasing Phantoms
The gaze follows a shadow, in diverse gray. It leads into a blurred memory, a presumed origin of existence. Long ago, the shadow was given a name. A name, full of expectation for an imaginary future. For an idea to manifest in flesh and blood. This idea, this name, this expectation became personality, identity. Identity… Continue reading Chasing Phantoms
Into the event horizon
Anything we hope for, fear or worry about has already happened, it’s just not yet on our event horizon. When we look into the stars we look into the past, millions of years ago. Our births have not yet happened where and when we look into this void, while in the imagined presence of such… Continue reading Into the event horizon
Streaming lives
Reincarnation is an idea behind the simultaneous appearance of all life forms beyond the limitations of the dimension of time/space, perceived and interpreted by the human brain/mind in a timeline. The brain mainly processes in a causal-linear manner which separates events and appearances from each other, and when the individual mind/awareness expands more into the… Continue reading Streaming lives