Lotus Theory ⌘

Inspired Intelligence. "In the sunlight of awareness, everything becomes sacred." -Thich Nhat Hanh

[siyahalbatros]

TEXTURES

[longestnight]

you wear an ancestor's face. you look like a woman you'll never meet. in that mirror, there's thousands of you. and in the bath, when you look down, she looks back, shaking and deforming in the ripples as she lies beneath the surface.

[my-wicked-heart]

[lazyyogi]

Meditation and mindfulness are not processes that lead you to Being-Consciousness-Bliss. 

They are ways of processing that you are Being-Consciousness-Bliss. 

[taknamwen-deactivated20230622]

Art credit: Paula Sgarbi — Guides of the Underworld

[silentgong]

Not Two, Not One

You cannot have solid without space.

You cannot have figure without background.

You cannot have organism without environment.

You cannot have left without right.

These are fundamentally the same, while being expressed as different.

Through contrast they bring clarity to the whole.

-SilentGong

[juliamstarr]

Instagram

[sillygoosemaxxer]

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word water is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

Alan Watts, ‘Psychotherapy, East & West’

[zenwords]

“Meditation is a deep state of listening. That is the heart of it: listening to the quiet places, but as you do, trying not to assert your will or make your mind conform to a certain pattern, whether to quiet it or to force thinking or not thinking along certain lines.”

— Adyashanti

[maureen2musings]

Nature’s Finest

moners

[mindflixx]

Art,sculpture,poetry,painting,dance is like the footprint of where the imagination has been.

Terence McKenna

[periscope-9]

Chaos out of order.

By Periscope9

[juansendizon]

“Solitude should be sacred, recreational, and intentional.”

— juansen dizon, A Love note for Introverts

[maureen2musings]

Over the mountains and through the woods

masonstrehl

[spirituallyminded-deactivated20]

“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing – our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can’t hold on to anything – a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self – because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.”

— Tara Brach

[maureen2musings]

Everything is everything

my_soulwax

[lotus-theory]

When people ask me where I get my ideas, I laugh. How strange—we’re so busy looking out, to find ways and means, we forget to look in.

Ray Bradbury