“I never go anywhere. I am always in the same place of ‘I am’, the placeless place called here, and the timeless time called now.”
— Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness, 2017
Mandala #422 – Black rain
Nature
Mandala #421 – Pony
“The experience of beauty is the experience of the world dissolving into its infinite essence. It is a revelation of infinity.”
— Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness, 2017
Mandala #420 – Goat
“In order to recognise its essential reality, mind must cease being mind.”
— Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness, 2017
Mandala #419 – Plas Newydd
“Although the practice of meditation has been reduced by popular culture to a means of relieving stress and anxiety, in its original form it is a means by which awareness has access to its knowledge of itself.”
— Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness, 2017
Mandala #418 – Vineyard III
“Matter is the way consciousness appears to itself when viewed through the prism of a finite mind.”
— Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness, 2017
Mandala #417 – Vineyard II
“The mind that seeks to know or find awareness is like a character in a movie that travels the world in search of the screen. The mind is made out of the very stuff for which it is in search.”
— Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness, 2017
Mandala #415 – Newborough II
“It is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.”
— Carl Jung, 1947
Mandala #414 – Newborough I
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”
— Max Planck, 1931
Mandala #410 – Sands
“The true nature of reality is experientially verified … as nondual; equally demonstrating plurality and oneness, differentiation and unity; self and other are simultaneously distinct, unique, and particular, and united, coessential, and interdependent.”
— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016
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