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Feb.09.2012
Mind occupies itself, no matter how much it protests itself. Self tries to evict itself, in vain.
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Jan.28.2012
Mind is its own TV: it watches itself. Turn it off.
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Jan.01.2012
So... Soto Zen. SO-to Zen: a collapse of S(ubject)-O(bject) dualities, i.e. a collapse of ego-mind. so-TO Zen: from mind TO no-mind. SO-TO Zen: from the mind of dualities TO S(ubject)-O(bject) collapse of no-mind. And back, of course:  from here to infinity, from the samsara of subject-object...
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Aug.22.2010
Arlington Avenue is a winding, 9% grade-steep street that snakes up the Southside hills of Pittsburgh.  It is popular with local cyclists and happens to run right above my house on the slopes.  It offers one of many amazing overlooks of the city but without the glitz of some of the more official...
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Mar.05.2010
I know you’ve been caught too long polishing a mirror you didn’t want to be reflected in.Been in that mirror myself, the Polisher.My slave-Slavic DNA of consciousness tells me: neither I, the slave, nor my master are what the mirror of Nonduality reflects.We both, I and my master, are free.I know...
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Feb.07.2010
1.As a competitive swimmer of the river of consciousnessI never understood the idea of a false start.What do you mean I have to wait to compete?!2.But now that I don’t compete I get it:I have to synchronize firstBefore I competitively get out of synch.3.Here’s what I like about team sports:You got...
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Jan.19.2010
Conscicide - death of mind, not of consciousness - not that there is an ontological difference between these two sides of one and the same oneness. I'll blog more about this at a time other than now... But when is that?  Just because a mind coins a word it doesn't mean it's not a part of the same...
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Dec.14.2009
Pattern interruption is a good thing:  when a pattern is broken, we wake up, go off the autopilot.   So, here's an intriguing case of pattern interruption to learn from. 2000: Boston philantropist announces a $1,000,000 dollar prize for a solution to 1904 Poincare's conjecture about 3D space. 2002...
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Nov.27.2009
1.Lean into the sky with your stare.See all of its black infinity behind the azure blue of the familiar.Realize that all, all, all of that is you!2.I know, I knowYou thought it was just you.I know you thought it was all quite simple:That there was you and not-you,That there was this you here and...
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Sep.20.2009
   1. Like a hand in a glove, Mind's an analogy of reality. Consciousness is the real thing. 2. Ego is a memory. Forget it. 3. Look at this proletarian body! Look at its billions of constitutionally independent cells! Look at how they all united in one mind! Can you? 4. If I had a tail, I'd chase...