Copied from: Reality tunnels: how to understand your operating system. | The Techno Optimist Your Reality Tunnel “Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas. A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘Universe’ – a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest; a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
When you’re doing shikantaza you don’t try to focus on anything specifically, or to make thoughts go away. You simply allow everything to be just the way it is. Thoughts come, thoughts go, and you simply watch them, you keep your awareness on them. It takes a lot of energy and persistence to sit shikantaza, to not get caught up in daydreaming. But little by little, thoughts begin to slow down, and finally they cease
Pat Robertson warns of ‘scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible’ (via Raw Story ) Just two days after Pat Robertson encouraged bankrupt families to give him “just $20 a month,” the televangelist is now alerting viewers to beware of “scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible.” Robertson offered the warning on Tuesday after a 700 Club report about the Profitable Sunrise…