14 Dec Moon Roads
Kanako Iiyama Koan 13 Is it so?...
06 Dec Koan 45
As the now moves at incomprehensible speeds, how can our senses inform us of the now?" The Earth is rotating at 1,037 miles/hour and revolving around the sun at 66,616 miles/hour. Our solar system is revolving around the center of the Milky Way galaxy on average at 514,000 miles/hour. The Milky Way is moving towards the Andromeda Galaxy at 1,339,200 miles/hour. At these speeds, our senses cannot inform us of the now, yet the now seems stable and continuous. Our mind slows everything down, creating the illusion of the now....
03 Oct Koan 51
When a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Mu (nothing). There is no tree, forest or sound, as they are all manifestations of our consciousness. The universe is not an infinite number of things; only one thing: the universe. Consciousness creates an infinite number of things out of the universe....