12 Jan Kotodama 88
The void is devoid. It is not nothing. It is the absence of any thing....
09 Jan Way Of Way 232
We are born as a light in a dark theater. Soon enough, the light transitions into a movie among many movies playing simultaneously. Family, friends and others beckon us to play roles in their movies as we invite them to play roles in our movie. We assume many different roles as actors in various movies. The roles and our emotional reactions to circumstances define or experience in life. It all seems very real. Yet, when the theater lights break the darkness, we realize our lives were just a two-dimensional illusion, a movie. Knowing we are just watching a movie, we can enjoy it as it is, suffer little regardless of our roles and circumstances and realize we are still alive after the movie is over....
07 Jan Koan 216
The now is not now. What the self perceives as the now (the now we know, the "no-now") lags 80 milliseconds behind the true-now. The true now is the present; the pre-sent, the true-now before it is sent, transmitted, from the space in which it unfolds. Once transmitted, the true now is the past in the space in which it unfolds. As every thing changes in the 80 milliseconds between the true-now and the no-now, the no-now is an illusion; though we undoubtedly think otherwise. The true-now is the expression of the soul. The no-now is an illusion created by the self. Self-realization is realizing the self is an illusion as well. When we are present, we are the soul experiencing life as the self....
05 Jan Way Of Way 230
Through the self we see reflections of light from infinite things. Without the self, there is only light, no things....
04 Jan Way Of Way 231
When a somebody sees you as a nobody, they will show you who they are and how that makes you feel shows you who you are....
03 Jan Way Of Way 228
The past, present and future are the timeless and Nameless One. The present is the fulcrum where the past and future meet. Yet, there are infinite fulcrums as there are infinite spaces light years from each other. The past, present and future in one space is not the past, present or future in another space. The past, present and future happen simultaneously but in different spaces. As the Nameless One (past, present and future) is too overwhelming to experience directly, we experience it indirectly as the now. The now is not the present, but our experience of what we think is the present. The now is our self creating an orderly world from the otherwise overwhelming Nameless One. However, we can come to know the Nameless One as it is, not as we are, by being present. When we are present we can observe the now. Meditation allows us to be present. In meditation, we focus on inhaling and exhaling. The sound of the inhale is "soo" and the exhale is "hmm". The sounds of breathing form the word "soham", meaning "I am" in Sanskrit. By breathing, I am the now. In the silent space between breaths, I observe the now. I am the timeless and Nameless One creating the now....