Posts Tagged "reality"

The Possibility of Being Wrong

The Possibility of Being Wrong

Reading at Koloa and Anara practice 01/12/2012 Have you considered the possibility that everything you believe is wrong, not merely off a bit, but totally wrong, nothing like things as they really are? If you’ve done this, you know how durably fragile those phantoms we hold in our heads are, those wisps of thought that people die and kill for,betray lovers for, give up lifelong friendships...

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The Altar of This Moment

The Altar of This Moment

Thailand 1 - by Michael Durbin Reading at Anara Spa 5/23/2011 Place everything you can perceive— Everything you can See, Hear, Smell, Taste, Or touch, Upon the altar of this moment And give thanks. It is over so soon— This expression, This single moment of your precious life, This one heart pounding itself open with fear or wild joy, This one breath rising in the cold winter air smoothly and...

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The menu is not the dinner….

Reading at Koloa and Anara Spa practices 2/28/2011 The experience is reality. Its description is a symbol. In other words, the menu is not the dinner. You can’t eat the menu; you can only eat the dinner. This mad compulsion to constantly measure creates the experience of time. This is the real meaning of sacrificing the soul for the world, or the spirit for the ego. My ego is a collection...

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