Whatis the relationship between shared perception and cause/effect?

When we are young our parents are our Gods. Our world is mimicked in acceptance, ignoring or rejection of their traits. A mother defined by presence and a father defined by absence. A man who had the interest and will to bring another man into the world, but not to be present during his life as given by the likely results of his actions. Like a ( Read more... )

How can beauty find friends when all just want it in their possession? Who has compassion for the beautiful? The heart of beauty knows desire well, but compassion is a foreigner in its land -- those who desire to possess cannot also sacrifice in the name of love for what truly dead thing can also possess? The poor suffer the stomach, the rich ( Read more... )

The world glowed. I was empty and happy.

I sat in a car with Mysty and I said "I just want him-"

"You crossed the line.", she said.

I just want him to understand.

Why want someone else in order to understand?

Something about sharing...

Consistency, inconsistency, abandonment, care, devaluation, valuation, order, chaos, random, pattern...

This day: image, copy, reflection, reflexion, give, take, illusion, emanation, truth

"I don't want to be I."

The will. All of man's production. Inspiration. Progress.

The Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin

Is freedom accepting the patterns you continually recreate or is freedom trying to break out of those patterns?

I'm angry. Anger always comes from an ideal in conflict with the real. My ideal is that I have plenty of time to meditate, study and practice. The real is that I am doing lots and lots of work ( Read more... )

If I am able to assess that I exist, then I know what the qualifications are for existing. If those qualifications are not met, then "I" does not exist. However, as there is a duality of existing or not, existing and non-existing are qualities themselves superimposed on the one thing.