The core experience and sense or perception of self is real, but the self is not.
Tag: zen
Locked
That which frees us is also that which binds us.
Time, like liquid logic flows…
Time…
Into Emptiness
Falling into emptiness…
If consciousness is a holistic property of information and energy-processing systems, or even a “phase” of matter, it must have some very special logical properties.
Does the plausible and probable distributed computation of the hyper-extended cognitive technologies of our material culture generate us just as much as we generate it?
I’m looking through you…
I’m looking through you. Where did you go?
Emptiness of Self
Most of that which is “you” may not actually be you at all. What is original about you is the choices you make concerning the reconfiguration of preexisting things, concepts, objects, words, idioms and methods of self-expression.
Hollow Wisdom and Love
Do we fall in love with a person or do we fall in love with the idea of a person? We can never ever really get inside someone else’s head, experience the world as they do and through their eyes, so we are surely only ever as much in love with who we think that […]
Now you see it… now you don’t.
The fact that any of this is happening at all is really quite peculiar but we seem to be blind to it, desensitised, unaware.
Endless Games
The purpose of this game (of life, of experience, of order and human intelligence) becomes the self-perpetuation of the game itself.
Through the Looking Glass
What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?