If, as Chogyam Trungpa wrote, “Disappointment is the best chariot on the road of the dharma”, does that mean that enlightenment is best defined as ‘ultimate disappointment’?
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If God is defined as the most fruitful relationship possible between consciousness and evolution: Science is God’s sandbox. Science is God’s workshop. Science is God’s kitchen.
The abstract heirlooms in which our infant minds are wrapped, swathed and swaddledare like cocoons;perceptual wombs which may,initially,protect, prepare, and secure us,but may,eventually,contain,then condition,then regulate,then restrain,then constrain,then restrict,then constrict,then strangulate,then finally entombthe revelation of possibility. Unable to fulfil their metamorphosis the cocoons corrupt.Fledgeling minds wither within eggshell tombs.Their aborted blooms,well preserved,are quickly conveyed to serve
Consciousness procreates doubt.
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I wrote the following comment to CBC’s ‘The Current’ after listening to an interview with Hara Marano on her book A Nation of Wimps. —————– Found the interview this morning on ‘Raising Wimps’ pretty compelling. I’m a Dad of nine and four year old boys and I agree with much that was said. In the
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“Science could be compared to a great circle. The points in its interior denote all scientific achievements. What is outside the circle represents not-yet discovered regions. Consequently, the circumference of the circle should be interpreted as a place in which what we know today meets with what is still unknown, that is, as a set
I’ve got a million secrets, none of ’em i can tell, I hide ’em all in a prickly shell. It’s my home and alone, i can see infinity from my cell.
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Spirituality is the principle of psychic growth. Human consciousness is the only living entity that can choose not to grow. Psychically we grow cyclically. Addiction is a sick psychle. Emotions are the symptoms we have to read the spiritual malaise. Faiths, religions, can enable this growth or, alternately, they can ice growth. So, the tradition
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‘MONA’ is something like an excerpt from a novel I was writing, turned into a performance piece. ‘MONA’ was performed as the opening lecture for the Subtle Technologies Conference, a gathering of scientists and artists from a very wide range of expertise, in Toronto on Saturday May 14, 2000. Click here to view MONA
Consciousness is a disembedded being
dwelling in a bellicose comatose disenchanted world.
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