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The Intent For This Book
Science & tech, once tools to extend our reach, are impotent to serve us now — the scale of needs has inflated beyond our power to respond.
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A First Mover Is Not Needed
In fact, it is a pretty silly idea that there can be anything that is not in motion.
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The Irrefutable Fact of Now
This “now” that we talk of is the edge of eternity, which is always present, and in which all things that happen thereby become present.
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In the Servitude of Science
Constructive science shifts the scale of studied action beyond our ability to experience directly, understand, or to use wisely what we know.
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The Danger Inherent in Modern Secular Meditation
Secular meditation is taken from ancient spiritual traditions, but jettisons their profound wisdom.
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On The Limen of Poetic Being
A Poem
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Beyond Concepts, Begone Concepts
Somewhere along the way, the understanding that something is “beyond concepts” got very confused.
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Loosening the Chains of the Conceptual and the Intelligible
An understanding will always separate us from the truth, because an understanding creates a something-that-is-understood.
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Recognizing the Dualistic Structure of Our Experiences
It is very difficult to overcome the dualistic structure imposed on our experiences — harder still, that of our language.
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Knowledge
Some types of knowledge effectively undermine the possibility of achieving enlightenment — unfortunately, they are those most used pedagogically.
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Understanding Experience
What is a meditative experience? Well, first, what is an experience?
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The Illusion Of Qualities
There is something definitely wrong with our understanding of what our conscious experience is.