When is a bear not a bear? When it’s a Teddy. We are exploring metaphor and the innocence of the child’s mind, for children see metaphorically. I also brought in Avatar to help us with this inquiry. Where is the Sacred in a Profane world? For the child, his Teddy is sacred. Let’s look at […]
I like playing with this metaphor like the cat. Life is a shell game, isn’t it. Where is the truth? Where is the real? Is it the mind or the heart that is out best instrument for finding the ball in the cup. If we think we know which cup has the ball, there is […]
We don’t appreciate the power of mythology, which is the fishbowl that shapes our minds. The GOP/Evangelical marriage is the welding of religious mythology (language/symbols) with secular history. Those swimming in this fishbowl—which is a fishbowl within the larger fishbowl of American culture—live in a reality that is bent to see the action of God […]
A metaphor is when you celebrate your imperfection perfectly. You are then perfectly imperfect. The timeless (perfection) and time (your imperfection) are one in the action of that celebration. It is the act that you find wholeness, not in your thought. The act that leaps forth without fear is always perfect. For in fearless action […]
This Forest Gump image is interesting because of the ambiguity. Forest Gump has a hold of time. As you know in the movie that feather floated in at the beginning and at the end, and we knew it was metaphorical to something, but we don’t know as the movie unfolds. Is the feather a metaphor […]
My backyard has a Buddha pond, and three original koi are still there, now over a foot long. I am waiting to see if they will outgrow their ocean and die or will their enclosure naturally check their expansion. Koi are carp and they can get quite big. Many of us outgrow our pond and […]
“Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now) ____________________ Is reality good or bad? […]
“Whatever you learn through psychoanalysis or self-observation is about you. It is not you. It is content, not essence. Going b beyond ego is stepping out of content.” Eckhart Tolle (from The Power of Now) _____________________ What you observe as something— thoughts, emotions, feeling, concepts, psychological theories—is the separation of you The One) into two. […]
“There is no such thing as “my life,” and I don’t HAVE a life. I AM life. I and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. So how could I lose my life? How could I lose something that I don’t have in the first place? How could I lose something that I AM? It […]
“If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are are, then what’s left is who you are—the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined. Give up defining yourself—to yourself and others. You won’t die. You will come to life.” Eckhart Tolle (from The […]
The question of KAV’s guilt or innocence is framed by our inability to rest in ambiguity, to hold judgment, no restrain from choosing this or that. We live in a rational logical materialism where truth must be Either this Or that. Truth can’t be this/that; truth can’t be ambiguous, so we can’t by the force […]
Social media is changing everything because everyone is watching everything live. There is no more time; everything is Now. We are a internet species now, a flock of starlings that shift in unison in flight. Common sense wise we are still living in the Newtonian universe of billiard balls knocking into each other as cause […]
The moral crisis is when we must choose what is right but can’t, yet we must. When both choices have equal arguments and emotional power, and Truth or the One is divided against itself. Truth Is One…Reality is not two unless you are a schizophrenic. So to avoid the psychosis of a split mind we […]
Just watched Black Panther on Netflix and as an extended metaphor (which movies are) you can get any meaning you want from the movie, so I’ll just point out one I saw. Wakanda is a culture that was hijacked by a ritually confirmed king (Trump) who out of his personal anger took the culture in […]
