Tag: Illusion
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The Nature of Ego: Echoes Without a Cause
Read time about 3 minutes. This article picks up where The Origin of Self-Awareness: The Mirror Cracks left off and continues to explore the nature of ego, identity and reality. What is the nature of ego?And what does Joseph Goldstein mean when he says,“…thoughts themselves are the thinker”? The 5 Phantoms of the Ego tells us…
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Patterns of Perception: Zen Drop 011
The Flannel Side of the Moon. Read time about a minute. The Devil wears Prada—The prism wears plaid.The fabric of the cosmos. The fabric of the hipster. Coincidence? What’s the point?A fair question.Who’s asking? Well, maybe the prism is the mind—bending clarity, adding patterns, creating narrative.Every beam contains a story. Maybe light isn’t broken: it’s…
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From Clarity to Conflict: The Five Phantoms of Ego
How distinction gives rise to the phantoms of ego—and the illusion of self is born. Read time approx. 6 minutes. We’ve already laid the groundwork. Unfiltered Vision introduced the nature of pure perception—non-dual and transparent. In our exploration of distinction, we saw how the unbiased separation of interwoven aspects of a single movement begins to morph into the…
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The Illusion of Self: Stink Lines of Reality
Read time approximately 4 minutes All of this talk that the ego is illusion—how can this be possible? The sense of self is one of the more unique elements of life. On the one hand, it is almost impossible to locate and define. On the other hand, it is ever-present, barraging us with an endless…
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The Sound of Awakening And The Cosmic Snooze Button
What is the sound of awakening?Each night before bed, we set the alarm. We enter a dream state. Then, abruptly, the sound wakes us up. Unless, of course, we hit the snooze button. As you read this, what you are experiencing is an analogy regarding a dream.Or are you dreaming of an analogy regarding a…
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Silliness: The Wisdom And Presence Of Playfulness
Lately I have been hearing a song by Elaine Stritch in a car commercial. Perhaps you have heard it too, as it is hard to ignore in its striking playfulness. The song is “Are You Having Any Fun?” Its lyrics are loaded with common sense wisdom. It asks, “Are you having any fun… laughs?” It…
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Unconditional Trust: A Leaping Embrace Into Uncertainty
Today we are going to explore the being/becoming paradox of the present moment more deeply. To do so, we will need to recall the lessons contained within the paradox of simplicity and complexity. The goal is clear. In learning to increasingly invite presence into our lives, we also invite an unconditional trust along with it.…
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Impermanence and the Paradox of Being/Becoming
Today we move our discussion regarding the nature and relevance of paradoxes one step forward. In our last lesson, we looked at the paradox of everything and nothing, or absence and presence. Now we are going to discuss presence, not in the context of the presence or absence of a thing or experience, but rather,…
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Everything and Nothing: The Paradox of Empty, Pure Potentiality
Over the course of the next few weeks we will be dissecting the concept of paradox by considering it in its many forms. Today we discuss the paradox of everything and nothing. Nothingness contains within it the potential for everything. Yet if we focus on this aspect of nothingness then we continue to be lost…
