Thisness

If we stare into AI don’t we see ourselves reflected back in all our glory and horror, perfect and imperfect? Just another way of chattering away to ourselves.

I read a computer engineer say that AI doesn’t know what it is, what it’s doing or how it’s doing it. I would suggest that neither do we.

Who can tell where it all begins?

Beyond the Sun, the Birds and the Hills

Thus it is that our worldview is conventional and far from complete. It is just a version of reality, a ‘way of seeing’. Nothing more. It is, in the Western case, a way of seeing that gives us enormous control over the physical world, but leaves us psychologically impoverished.

Alan Watts, Shaman

You can’t get outside yourself to define yourself. You can’t get outside of nature, because you are part of it.

Alan Watts

This is all there is. This moment right now. This is it. It’s all there ever is and was. This is the entire totality of my existence in this moment. The energy of it is so intense. Just ‘being’ here. Just feeling presence. There’s a wholeness an expansiveness.

Deciding not to Believe a Thought

And how can we know the whole of which we are only a part?

Carl Jung

Our resting place, our true home is always right here, right now under all circumstances in any situation. If it’s not here, now it’s nowhere at all.

In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal— quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is…

Awakeness

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

Tilopa