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Tag Archives: illusion
Old Photo
Old photo seeing my parents before we were born . young and happy full of energy before they knew . disappointment from themselves from their kids from each other . It’s hard to believe they ever looked quite so young … Continue reading
Posted in Off the Wall, Poetry & Free Verse
Tagged ageing, dissapointment, family, illusion, poem, poetry, samsara
Faith and Belief
Many people who don’t sound religious or spiritual are full of faith: faith in their abilities to know, to infer, to discern, to discover, to do and experience all sorts of things. They cannot prove that they will do these … Continue reading
Posted in Dyad
Tagged belief, dyad, faith, illusion, juxtaposition, meme, memetic, Religion and Spirituality, spiritual psychology, spirituality
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Clearing Land Mines
Shadow work took off once I knew of it. Dissolving, disarming painful old stories, like land mines left from a forgotten war long ago, still waiting for a trigger. An idle word, a casual mis-step and the internal explosion shows … Continue reading
The “I” Never Wakes Up
The “I” never wakes up. The “me” never learns enough to awaken. “I/me” exists as a thought story, held in imagination. The “me” does not want to wake up, ever. The “me” appears to control, yearns to control; letting go … Continue reading
Posted in Human Experience, No self
Tagged Autobiographical memory, autobiographical self, basic confusion, I, illusion, me, self, self identification, self illusion
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Looking into the Experience of Pain: An Exploration
[ This post is a copy of the new page of the same name. It’s here because readers and other people regularly either ask me about pain and meditation, or else mention that they live with chronic pain. There is … Continue reading
Posted in Human Experience, Uncategorized
Tagged attention, experience, illusion, pain, perception, sensation, Shinzen Young, Vipassana meditation
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