“Zen recognizes as self-evident the nonduality of existence, experience and realization.”
— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016
Mandala #408 – Sign
Photography
Mandala #407 – Pillbox
“It is futile, meaningless, and ultimately irrational to affirm, deny, or otherwise speculate about the existence or non-existence of realities independent of or transcendent to sentient experience.”
— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016
Mandala #406 – Llyn Cefni
“To exist is to be experienced – the existence of something is dependent on its being experienced.”
— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016
Mandala #405 – Do Not Swim!
Each dharma [phenomenon], all dharmas, and the whole universe are not three different things – to see any one of these is to see all three.
Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016
Mandala #404 – Electroluminescence
Form is experienced as emptiness not-experienced, emptiness is experienced as form not-experienced.
Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016
Mandala #403 – Angler
I am other than name, form and action.
Adi Shankara (c 700 – 750), Upadesasahasri
My nature is ever free!
I am Self, the supreme unconditioned Brahman
I am pure Awareness, always non-dual.
Mandala #402 – Beach
He who knows that Brahman is one and he is another, does not know Brahman.
Adi Shankara (c 700 – 750)
Mandala #401 – Beach labyrinth
We should not think of our souls as discrete and separate from the rest of creation.
Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao
Mandala #400 – Bomb Store Graffiti
To Dogen, mind was at once knowledge and reality, at once the knowing subject and the known object, yet is transcended them both at the same time. In this nondual conception of mind, what one knew was what one was – and ontology, epistemology, and soteriology were inseparably united.
Hee-Jin Kim, 2000
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