19 Feb Way Of Way 248
Those who are present don't agonize over what's lost or get emotional about what's next. Unless we are celebrating the present, we are not present....
18 Feb Way Of Way 241
The universe is a flow that consciousness divides with time, space, and words. A moment in time is a photo of the flow in our mind. Foveal vision creates things from undifferentiable peripheral vision. Words are allusions creating illusions from nothing....
17 Feb Koan 135
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." -- John 1:1, The Gospel of John. Unlike seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching which absorb energy, the spoken word is like the Big Bang; a burst of energy from within to without. Words are a medium for consciousness to define and give agency to infinite everchanging things from a universe that is an eternal flow. Words transform God into man and man into God. As a mantra, meditating on a word (its sound, meaning, etymology and uses), we realize its allusions are illusions as we melt into the eternal flow of the universe....
16 Feb Way Of Way 219
Mysticism is the experience of gazing at the dark sky until we merge with it (whatever it is). Mystics use koans, kotodama and poetry as stars; points to bring the dark sky to our attention....
15 Feb Way Of Way 48
In the now, everyone is an Individual Self and the Ultimate Self. True to its acronym ("IS"), the Individual Self is being, as being is the now. The Individual Self has many emotions. Each emotion is a separate self. Emotions make the Individual Self multi-selves. Unlike an Individual Self, the Ultimate Self is invisible and indivisible. The Ultimate Self is the sole-self, the soul. The soul is what every thing is before and after the now. The now is the manifestation of the soul. True to its acronym, the Ultimate Self is "US"; the unity of every thing in the now and the soul. As US, the soul has only one emotion: love. Love connects the Everything as one. In the now, we are often oblivious of the invisible soul, as the emotions of the multi-selves continually captivate our attention. To realize the Ultimate Self, we need to separate from and observe the now. This happens when we are in the space before and after the now, where only the Ultimate Self resides. To escape from the emotional clutches of the multi-selves that imprison us in the now, we need to calm the multi-selves. When calm, the multi-selves disappear as they integrate and all that remains is the Individual Self. The mind is the Individual Self's interface with the universe. In the now, the mind is like a pond muddied by the frantic motion of emotion of the multi-selves. When calm, the multi-selves settle to the bottom of the pond and the mind clears. A clear mind allows us to see the now as reflections on the surface of the pond. We then realize we are the eternal Ultimate Self. Meditation is a practice that allows us to calm the mind. In meditation, breathing is the now and the space between exhaling and inhaling is what's before and after the now: the Ultimate Self....
14 Feb Kotodama 81
Nose knows no's. Intuition reveals invisible traps....
13 Feb Koan 259
How can you tell "heads" from "tails" as a coin has an infinite number of sides (depending on who is viewing it, which way and when)? You can't know, when you know what you are. Something that seems simply black or white ("heads" or "tails") is incomprehensively complex. The complexity melts away its rigidity to reveal its fluidity. What seems independent is interdependent as we are one eternal everchanging is....
