Buddha and Binoculars

Wow… 

Opened a box and found our teak Buddha and all 4 sets of binoculars. 

Also the 3 singing bowls…  

This is what can happen when you move…    

 

At least when someone else packs you up, tosses everything in a truck, and randomly unloads boxes into your new abode… 

Lots of mystery… 

Can’t find a damn thing! 

Open a box and…  

Surprise! 

Or, looking for that bottom piece for the 55 inch TV. 

Can’t do anything with the TV until you find it. 

Serendipity…  

After 24 hours found it with miscellaneous stuff in the garage!  

Will take us at least a month to unpack and organize our new place. 

Glad I took 6 weeks before starting my new job. 

Took a break today… 

We biked for an hour, just 6 miles. 

Nice loop… 

Checking out “the hood…”     

Checking out the decks…  

We need to deck and landscape the back yard… 

Feeling lucky… 

A beautiful new place…  

With my beautiful life partner and wife… 

Smaller house…  

Smaller land… 

Letting go…  

Jupiter is up in the night sky…  

Can use the binoculars to see the moons… 

Buddha will go on a high shelf to oversee… 

Just remember… 

If you meet the Buddha in the road…  

You must kill him…  

http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/670

Or, invite him out for a micro-brew… 

Or, a nice Zin…  

With garlic fries! 

Namaste

Everything is Real

My wife and I and a close friend participated in a weekend shamanic journeying workshop.

The leader Timothy Cope stated, “everything is real.”

http://www.rattledrum.com/bio.shtml

He was speaking about the shamanic or spirit world. 

How you have to respect the beings you may meet in these places. 

This may be a difficult concept for a basic scientist (Heretic!). 

However, I ran across a recent article in Science News regarding how even quantum information is physical. 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/information-physical-even-quantum-systems-study-suggests

Interesting! 

I had not even known that regular information was felt to be physical! 

http://www.informationr.net/ir/18-3/colis/paperC03.html#.V3azAVdTLow

http://bit-player.org/2009/information-is-physical

This of course relates to Einstein’s equation E=mc2. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass–energy_equivalence

Energy and mass are interchangeable. 

Since information is energy, then everything is potentially matter, even thoughts. 

Wow! 

For me this relates to how even our thoughts might influence the world. 

 

Perhaps in ways we still are too primitive to understand. 

If you are interested in reading more about these edges of science, I suggest books by Lynne McTaggart and books and writings by Larry Dossey, especially his editorials in the journal Explore.  Also, 2 related books:  Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism. 

Happy exploring!

Chasing the High

Yeah, I am guilty as charged…

Adyashanti speaks of this most eloquently in Emptiness Dancing,” Chapter 13, Spiritual Addiction. 

“A spiritual person can become addicted to spiritual highs and miss the experience of Truth.” 

“The spiritual person is very certain there is no problem, that his or her inebriation is unlike the other forms…” 

“You’re not a junkie.  You’re a spiritual seeker.” 

 “… I still believe I can pin the pendulum swing up to a high spiritual state and stay there.” 

“At the moment when the seeker starts to dissolve and there is just peace, then the pendulum might swing to into a high spiritual state or into a very ordinary state, or even to an unpleasant state, and the peace itself remains completely independent of those states.” 

“The nature of experience is that it changes or undulates like the wave on the ocean.” 

“As soon as the center is seen to be empty, and you know there is nobody there looking for it to be other than it actually is, this is much better than the highest of the high spiritual states.” 

“Without this me in the center, there is nobody to judge whether a given spiritual experience is the right experience or if it is spiritual.” 

Seems to be a central problem for many of us spiritual seekers. 

 

Whether we seek this peace through meditation, yoga, entheogens… 

I see this all around me… 

And within me… 

This little me. 

I want to be happy! 

I don’t want this unhappiness… 

This dissatisfaction… 

Yet, to be human is to be dissatisfied. 

This pushes us to create, to build, to seek… 

Yet

In the end… 

We have to let go… 

Let go of trying to get anywhere…  

To let go of being happy all the time. 

Clouds come… 

Clouds go…

Namaste

Meditation: Finding Exactly Who and What I AM.

Difficulty going to sleep.   Fitfully waking.

My wife and I are moving from the Midwest to the West. 

I am retiring from academic medicine after 25 years. 

I’ll join a private practice for about 5 years, or so... 

Make some money.  Pay off the house.  Retire again. 

Then, probably do some sort of practice helping people evolve… 

Maybe an entheogen coaching practice!  

The process of cleaning out 11 years of stuff is daunting. 

And tiring. 

My back hurts! 

And the endless forms for a medical license in a new state. 

Getting new hospital privileges. 

Blah, Blah, Blah… 

Worthwhile. 

My parents have passed on. 

Time to be closer to my wife’s aging parents.  

And the grandkids! 

Get our move paid for…  

Bought a smaller ranch-style house.  

With less yard. 

Blah, Blah, Blah… 

When I wake, I go and sit on my cushion. 

Why? 

Because

I forget who I am. 

What I am. 

And who and what I am not. 

What a long strange trip it’s been… 

And it doesn’t seem to be even near to being over… 

I am graced with much… 

A lovely partner interested in personal evolution. 

And the evolution of others… 

Practicing radical acceptance together… 

Enough income to enjoy life… 

Right livelihood… 

Blah, Blah, Blah… 

I forget who and what I am… 

So I go and sit on my cushion…  

And ask these questions… 

Fingers pointing at the moon… 

Over and over and over again… 

This body mind

Forgets… 

Sitting…  

 

Letting all these wants and desires… 

All these rejections of pain…  

All of this confusion…  

Fall

Away

Until

There is

Nothing

Left…  

I AM THAT

OM TAT SAT

Namaste