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Jan.04.2012
Zen Master Hakuin once wrote: "Even those who have sat zazen only once will see all karma erased." How can this be, you ask. Indeed, how can just one moment of nonduality erase all karma?
I don't really know but here's what I think: "A moment of mindful presence breaks up the flow of...
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Jan.03.2012
"The psychological group is a provisional being formed of heterogeneous elements, which for a moment are combined, exactly as the cells which constitute a living body form by their reunion a new being which displays characteristics very different from those possessed by each of the cells...
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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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Dec.31.2011
We seem to have a choice: to study the Variable or to study the Constant.
In fact, there is no difference: to study that which always changes is to study the unknowable; to study that which never changes is to study that which is beyond knowledge.
Choose your vector of dis-interest.
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Aug.09.2011
Life is:
a) embodied
b) on the move
c) in the pursuit of wellbeing
As such, a case could be made that we are RVs (recreational vehicles).
Motor on!
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Aug.01.2011
Body changes everyday; in fact, non-stop.
So does mind.
Notice the change to notice the changeless.
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Jun.10.2011
On the edge of the Grand Existential Canyon we sit, minds dangling over the cliff,
Burning millions upon millions of our cellular bodies, daily, like endless money,
Feeling grand as ever, as if we were rich (and we are (we just don’t know it yet (but we will (eventually)))).
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Jun.09.2011
Organic/non-organic distinction (in the matter of intelligence, as in AI, etc.) is immaterial. Consciousness (intelligence) is not the "what" of matter but the "how" of matter. A comatose human brain is less intelligent than a vintage Texas Instruments calculator. All...
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May.16.2011
Emotional eating is misunderstood and often unnecessarily demonized. However, emotional eating -- that is, eating to feel good, often termed "compulsive eating" -- isn't the problem. It's emotional overeating and mindless emotional eating that can be both psychologically and physically...
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Feb.09.2011
A slave to word, I once again sitIn front of my own cellular-cellulose self.A blank page onto its own narrative.Logos worships its own endless ineffability in vain.- What am I?A space trying to embrace itself, nothing else.Tat tvam asi.
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Feb.07.2011
The question of “What am I?” may lead to self-objectification or to self-liberation. Which path would you take? How would you answer it? By saying something along the lines of “I am this” or “I am that” or “I am such and such”? I hope not.
Understand the self-limiting meaning of the verb “to...
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Nov.16.2010
1.I know a copy from an original.I am - autopoietically - myself, aren’t I?Apophatically no!2.No more than a virus, at my material foundation, “I” – whatever it means – combine and re-combine into ever more complex consortia of essential sameness.3.Psychologically self-referencing, I “don’t need to...
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Nov.14.2010
“Both the French paleontologist-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Russian atheist Vladimir Vernadsky agreed that Earth is developing a global mind. The layer of thought in the shape of a sphere they called the noosphere, from Greek noos, mind. The aggregate net of throbbing life, from...
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Nov.11.2010
Over the last several years I have been reading a lot of Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan (the former, Lynn, is the ex of Carl Sagan and the mother of the latter). This mother-son writing duo – to my estimation – is one of the key think-tanks on this planet at the present time. Lynn is a fearless...
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Oct.29.2010
Ontologically, I boxed myself into a corner.A point of view always remains, right, René?
Life (and Death, for that matter) is a matter of opinion, i.e. a matter of consciousness, i.e. (again) an opinion made of matter.
So, before you kick a random stone on the road, ask yourself: “Does it consider...
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Being human is a good gig. Being humane is a better gig. Enjoy the gig whatever it is.
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About Pavel
GOAL: to help you reclaim eating moments of your life with meaning and moderation; to help you leverage self-acceptance and compassion; to help you appreciate the ordinary perfection of what is; and to help you rediscover your essential self.
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