The Mystical Lion @mysticallion - Tumblr Blog

the fact that generative A.I. has created a completely new fundamental doubt in reality (checking to see if an artwork we see is manmade or not) and doubt in the instinct of enjoying art is unforgivable. its sickeningly tragic, and i mean it. NOTHING is worth this price and i hope that everyone will one day realize this.

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Interestingly enough, prior to Erwin Schrödinger publishing his famous thought experiment in 1935, cats didn’t really like boxes. 🐈‍⬛ 📦 🐈

playburo

Tonje Thilesen

gothredy

beyourselfchulanmaria

William Moore Davis

Dandelions, 1859

7-en

ilusion-fantasia

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G’nite. Luminous dreams.

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Let us silently sit

Easy sigh

Sky to Sky

Let us gratefully dissolve

The self unseen

The gulf between

Let us simply rest

Break the spell

All is well

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ryan-sometimes

Some names just sound so ridiculously fake that had they been fictional, people would’ve rolled their eyes in complete disbelief. Like seriously. Wdym there’s a mf called Galileo Galilei. Stfu. You just made that up

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Fastest man on earth is a guy called Usain Bolt. Sure I guess. There’s a poker player whose real name is Chris Moneymaker. Whatever. Scott Speed is a racecar driver. Founder of Tito’s Vodka is some guy called Bert Beveridge. There’s a former CNN bureau chief called William Headline. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

david-de-bergerac

silversoulstardust

let's put this one here as well

somecunttookmyurl

weirdnessdk

I fucking love it when people are OBVIOUSLY born to do that exact job! 🤣🤣🤣

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Understanding attention and its role in constructing experience is vital to spiritual development. This is because attention is the primary mental mechanism of separation, of isolation, of division.

Attention acts as a contraction within the open field of awareness, something akin to the way a camera iris narrows down the open vista to the primary subject, seemingly separating certain aspects or features from the whole by mentally reducing innate spaciousness into some“thing” specific. And, simultaneous with the mental creation of the specific—which is another way of saying “the object”—is born its conceptual reflection—the subject, or the idea of “me.”

In other words, Reality is always a single fabric, but mind—via attention—makes imaginary wrinkles in that fabric and then further imagines those wrinkles to be “things,” or separate entities in-and-of themselves; and one such “thing” is “me.” That is to say, the usual subjective sense of being a separate, independently existing entity is actually just another mind-made “object” of attention.

Furthermore, once the first wrinkle is established, so to speak, the entire fabric itself seems to vanish, and the once-open world is seemingly reduced to a fluttering parade of endless wrinkles.

This is all to say that, if the mechanism of attention is completely relaxed and released, the seeming division of nondual reality into the endlessly conflicting diversity of duality will not occur. The Field remains in its open, natural state. This is because that openness, that wholeness, that fathomless boundlessness is the default state of Reality. Mind breaks that up—or seems to—with its conceptual gestures. It’s never actually broken up, of course; we just imagine that it is.

Object evokes subject. Subject evokes object. Attention elicits both.

All of that is mind-made.

But Awareness is prior to mind. Awareness is prior to attention. Awareness is prior to every “thing.”

Awareness is simply prior.

And fundamentally we are all simply Awareness.