06 Dec

Posted at 10:15h in I Am Time, Koan

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....

19 Nov

Posted at 10:15h in I Am Time, Koan

The mind is an addicting medicine. It's good for solving problems, but in doing so it creates other problems....

03 Oct

Posted at 10:15h in I Am Time, Koan

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....

02 Oct

Posted at 10:15h in I Am Time, Koan

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." -- Shunryu Suzuki Experts think of possibilities based on their experience. The inexperienced are not likewise constrained....

13 Aug

Posted at 10:40h in I Am Time, Koan, Wow

"You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one." The mind creates a familiar and comforting world out of the seemingly chaotic universe. In so doing, it separates us, imprisoning us, from directly connecting with the universe as it is and, ultimately, realizing we are the universe. Unless we come to know we are prisoners of mind, we can never escape. To recognize we are in mind's prison, we need to realize we don't know anything. That's scary, or at least our mind makes us feel it is. "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." -- Vernon Howard The mind galvanizes in us desires that can never be satisfied but temporarily. This is how the mind distracts us from recognizing we are in its prison. ...