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Dandelion, Barbara Regina Dietzsch

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Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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The Nature of Consciousness

One thing we all have going for us is consciousness. It is part of our basic nature to be aware of things going on around us. Consciousness is such a part of us, that we can even confuse it with who we are. However, we are not our consciousness any more than we are our foot. Like our feet though, consciousness helps us interact with the world around us. We can be aware of internal signals like when we are hungry and we are aware of external signals like light and sound. All these internal and external signals, those that we are aware of, and those that we ignore, interact with each other and what emerges from it all is our sense of the world.

Although human consciousness is unique, consciousness isn’t unique to humans. It is part of nature. We can see how dogs, cats, birds, bees, and elephants share a similar consciousness to us, where we all respond to light and sound and hunger and thirst and find ourselves food and water...read more

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Escaping Escapism

The reason meditation is so hard is because people don’t like to be stuck with their own minds. Meditation is about the most boring thing anybody can do with fifteen minutes or an hour of their day. It is even more interesting to read about meditation than to actually meditate.

Being who you are, right where you are can be a painful ordeal, so we tend to use our superhuman intelligence, to save ourselves the agony of being alone with our thoughts. We have access to all types of modern, high-tech and time tested, old world ways to distract ourselves from the pain of trying to be us. Delightful diversions will let us pleasantly pass hours, but sooner or later the diversions stop diverting and we have to deal with ourselves again. Sometimes no diversions seem to work and the pain of being us sours our otherwise sweet escape plans...read more

Audio version available here

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beach read by emily henry 🌸

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(KOAN Sound)

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I see the waves form.

With the sea foam looking back at me.

Cynical thoughts at night.

Causing me not to see.

The beauty of acceptance.

Now, my eye wide open.

Ready to dive into the depths of the ocean.

To find my being.

Bursting into shards of crystals.

Healer of all creations.

-V.M ( 8.1.2021)

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In between worlds

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Ten Major Artists:

Wong Wong & Lulu

Pepper examining himself before commencing a self-portrait

Pepper’s self-portrait

Tiger the spontaneous reductionist

Misty goes off the wall

Minnie, the abstract expressionist

Minnie’s Reindeer in Provence, 1992.

Smokey painting after an hour in the catnip patch

Smokey at work

Ginger’s Stripped Bare Birds, 1992.

Princess, the elemental fragmentist

Charlie, the peripheral realist

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Ram Han

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i want to dissolve into sea foam and recede with the tide

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L’oeil d’Aramon designed by garden designer Pascal Cribier (1953-2015)

via: something curated