Dear Gillian When I sit quietly, reality is a direct experience. It is deep, loving, caring and boundless. There is a ‘source’ but language cannot
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Lockdown Monologue
Going outside is overrated. Well, not exactly. Going outside can be very fulfilling – unless something bad happens. These disasters of varying magnitude are usually
The Parody of History
The shops are full of books pertaining to convey legitimate history, as are the online stores and digital download facilities, etc. All the authors and
Seeing Through Reality into the Void…
There is so much mystery to be understood in the material world, that inventing other realities is not necessary. We, as a species have perceived the atom, peered inside it and realised its ethereal nature.
Conditioned Response or Free Will?
When I was studying Philosophy of Mind, I came across ‘Kim’s Argument’, which briefly stated is as follows. When a finger is pierced by a
The Case for a Mind-Generated Existence
All the mind creates is endless thought-patterns (of varying quality) that traverse its psychological fabric, interspersed with often ‘irrational’ islands of ‘feeling’. This is the status of the ‘modern’ mind, which is viewed very much as an extension of matter, or the accidental by-products of biological responses to physical conditions.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 