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The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life

Four billion years ago, in the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the world where serpentine is forged, chemistry trembled with the promise of consciousness and matter began its l...

Emptiness and Nothingness

On the generative power of negativity The post Emptiness and Nothingness appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

I Thought My Experience with Death Was My Own

What Alan Watts Taught Me About the Strange Experience That We Might Not Want to Talk About.Continue reading on ILLUMINATION »

Waking Up from the Dream

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Be a Rock Dropped in Water

Know what you want The post Be a Rock Dropped in Water appeared first on The Good Men Project.

Don't Know = No Problem

Inspired by William Blake

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...

Burn This Book

Zen’s Final Teaching Is to Let Go of Every Teaching. Including This One.Continue reading on New Earth Consciousness »

How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma”

“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But despite all...

What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mys...

"This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole."

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E....

Living With Questions

At seventeen, Charles Gibbs was asked to stay after Sunday school class by a well-meaning elder -- and left with a message that would redirect the entire arc of his life: we don't...

Carl Jung’s Zen Secrets For Life

This is the mirror of consciousness.Continue reading on Personal Growth »

Freedom From Things

Our insistence that we can describe what's happening experientially doesn't take into account reality's ever-changing nature. This discovery reveals a deep psychological freedom.

The Problem of No Problem

Everything is as it is, and whether that’s on purpose or not, there is no problem. The post The Problem of No Problem appeared first on The Good Men Project.

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

"You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space...

Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life

A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."

How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles...

"Zen practice ... requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning."

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

"Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back."

Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality

How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border."

The Misery of Becoming Somebody and the Freedom of Becoming Nobody

From Ego to Bliss: The Wisdom of Becoming NobodyModern life teaches us that our worth depends on what we achieve, own, or display. We are encouraged to become successful, influenti...

Solitude in the Crowd: The Quiet Wisdom of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Stillness Within: Finding Inner Solitude Amid the Noise of LifeSolitude amounts to making the mind still. This can be done in a crowd too. (Sri Ramana Maharshi) Most people equate...

Quote of the day by Laozi: 'A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving'

An old proverb suggests that a true traveler aims not for a destination, but for the adventure along the way. This philosophy highlights the value of immersing oneself in experienc...

The Death of Becoming

Zen, the End of Seeking, and the Horror of Having Nothing Left to ChaseContinue reading on New Earth Consciousness »