Mandala #414 – Newborough I

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”

— Max Planck, 1931

Mandala #413 – Slate

“Our experience now when we look around ourselves, the so-called experience of perceptions sights, sounds, tastes, textures and smells – we think they are objects. We think they are stuff made out of matter. We don’t realise that it is consciousness itself that has freely assumed the form of the finite mind by apparently locating itself in a body in order to bring the world into existence. In other words, Infinite Consciousness freely overlooks the knowing of its own infinite being and in doing so assumes the form of the finite mind and it is only as the finite mind that it can know something called matter. In other words, Infinite Consciousness divides itself into a self on the inside made of mind and the word on the outside made of matter.”

— Rupert Spira, Balyani and the Oneness of Being, SAND Conference

Mandala #412 – Museum II

“Clearly seeing the true nature of reality, self verifies the truth that experiencing a single dharma is experiencing total existence-time.”

— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016

Mandala #411 – Museum I

“[Dharmas are] particular phenomenal expressions of the whole universe, actual instances of total existence-time; each dharma contains and is contained by each other dharma, and each dharma contains and is contained by total existence-time.”

— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016

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

Mandala #409 – Insulator

“Other is experienced as not-self. Self is experienced as not-other. Thus, the existence of self is verified as dependent on not-self (i.e. other), the existence of other is verified as dependent on not-other (i.e. self) – only with this experience is the true nature of self clearly seen as it is, and the true nature of other clearly seen as it is.”

— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016

Mandala #408 – Sign

“Zen recognizes as self-evident the nonduality of existence, experience and realization.”

— Ted Biringer, Zen Cosmology, 2016

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