The Matter With Things
Preamble
- Important truths must be approached gently, indirectly, in a looping spiral.
- There’s lots we don’t understand. It can feel spooky. It should inspire awe.
- Prefer the bigger, more integrated picture.
The Big Idea
- We are the cosmos becoming more itself, becoming aware of itself.
Reality
- Reality is one indivisible whole, in constant motion.
- Resistance to the flow brings beauty, complexity.
- Opposites co-exist, making something new and taut and harmonious.
Perception
- We construct our reality. Perception is active participation.
- Subject and object are distinct, but not separate.
- Expert consciousness is nondual. The (constructed) boundary between doer and doing vanishes.
Added 2023-05-24.