Tag: god
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To be a Christ, a Buddha
“The purpose of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists. The purpose of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.” – Adyashanti I would like to look at the life of Jesus not as a story about a man, but as an allegory, and instruction for self actualisation and a representation of the condition of…
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Intellectual Nomadism: Dante, Zen, and Deleuze
I was recently listening to an audio-book of some of Alan Watt’s lectures, and he highlighted an interesting parallel between a passage at the end of Dante’s Paradiso and a prime principle of the ‘Zen’ endeavour. The passage from Dante’s Inferno is given at the end where he is in presence of the vision of…
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“Does God Play Dice With The Universe?”: An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Superposition, Differentiated from the Uncertainty Principle
Firstly, it is worth differentiating quantum superposition from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle- the former representing the non-classical simultaneous occupation of two (seemingly exclusive) states, and the latter being a constraint on the measurement of a system or state. The most well known example of superposition is Schrodinger’s cat, but I think I can do one better.…
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The Garden of Eden and its Symbolism
I look at the story of Genesis- namely the description of the garden of Eden as holding profound insights into the most foundational geometries in nature. This story, no doubt, is a syncretism of other such stories and doctrines. We have the tree- a fractal; a form observed in all areas and scales of nature.…
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Elohim
A water-drop upon-the seas of time.Perturbed; ocean waves, embraced:Eating its own tail -a snake.Self-reflected around-about-a mirror in the middle. A dream of a dream, and all else;The primordial song, a musical spell. A well-beam of light, held in place- single moment.Time chain-link in flight, intercausal foment;a wrestle with own substance, gnarled limbs in collaborative contest,…
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An Existential Ramble
How to be a conscientious objector to a world from which I cannot be separate? I work, I earn good money…But I work for a machine that funds oil, mining, and weapons manufacture; all of which come at the expense of my fellow man and the planet on which I live. So what, then?Resign myself…
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A Song of Life
Softly spoken-The great tale is told.Not with word nor whisper,But song-music of the soul. Lone rhythm, one of many-Self only known within,Awakens; this strange singularity,The great melody begins. Mind like a loose leaf (floating),Time but a gentle breeze,Reality a loose weave (tapestry unwinding),Existing only as it seems. As I’m sleeping- (dreaming),This strange delusion;Each to their…
Aethnen 