RT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles David Richo: "Everything we take to be an ‘it’ - outside us and coming at us - is actually an ‘I’ - part of us." Jack Kornfield: "What the Buddha found out was that our life is the life of everything else."
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Final integration is a state of transcultural maturity far beyond mere social adjustment, which always implies partiality and compromise. The man who is “fully born” has an entirely “inner experience of life.” He apprehends his life fully and wholly from an inner ground that is at once more universal than the empirical ego and yet entirely his own. He is in a certain sense “cosmic” and “universal Man.” He is in a certain sense identified with everybody: or in the familiar language of the New Testament … he is “all things to all men.” He has attained to a deep inner freedom - the Freedom of the Spirit we read of in the New Testament. He is guided not just by will and reason, but by: “spontaneous behavior subject to dynamic Insight.” = Thomas Merton
@SherPoint 1/7 Meanwhile, Cheetham’s penetratingly discerning synthesis sheds light on a root perceptual conundrum: "The fundamental unity of the faculties of human cognition and the world to which they give access is the eternal pagan substrate." How, then, does the seeing eye, see itself?
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. - Yasutani Roshi Things are not as they appear. Nor are they otherwise. - Lankavatara Sutra Symbolic geometrical image of regenerative trinitarianism with calligraphy reading. “The display (what we see) is dual, but the reality is identical.” - Mircea Eliade