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The Shroud of Turin remains an enigma - even if there were a "test for Jesus" and it was positive, what would it prove? If even the physical presence of Jesus was not enough for most to understand or change their lives, why should the historical "evidence"? How evident must somet...

I don't know what science would say, but in reality I don't see the observer or the observed Hi Brant, though you've said it all in short, you've provoked this nice question "what would science say?" Science has a very special assumption regarding what observation is: If the experiment ca...

... if reality cannot be reached with reasoning and logic, it seems that words ultimately can only be used in the sense of a poem or a song ... ... and every person has / is it's own melody ... Isn't the reaction of criticism a necessity in a forum - those who see more often don't speak and don't wr...

Is the only One Thing That Is, infinite, all inclusive, omnipresent, omniscient, etc., perceiving an untruth? Not only perceiving it, but sharing it with us, who are He? And if so, why? Remember Mumon's famous koan: Does a dog have buddha nature or not? To reword / elaborate: Can a dog - which &quo...

... but not the blues brothers - they were on a mission from god ;-) There seem to be quite a few movies that are consumed as a counterweight to all this behaving ;-) This reminds me of another Anthony de Mello quote: "Life is like a car. Instead of driving it, people lay down in front of it an...

I agree with everything said here. Regarding silence: Physical silence is neither a necessity for the silence of the mind nor will it work invariably, but usually it helps. "Flitting from thought to thought" is the nature of the mind - so no reason to be worried. In the dialogues of "...

Is that what we are – just an isolated event, enduring perhaps merely five minutes. That depends on the perspective. If the perspective is the one of an individual, then time kicks in (and also space and a history consisting of causes & effects). "A duration of five billion years", &q...

Two afterthoughts came to me after the last post: First, I wrote that one "could just forget" about the package. Actually it came to me that this is not as easy as it sounds. How can I actively unlearn a habit or something I know? And it appeared to me that a lot of Zen and meditation exer...

and peered through a pre-installed package of thoughts, memories, and expectations Most (all?) of the package is not pre-installed from an "external source". It's actively being re-installed by / as an illusion which keeps itself alive. "You" could just forget about all those th...

Other than many other religious books, this one is about practice and experience. Though I have to admit that few people change their lives because of a book, this one has a potential to bring you to the point because it is not about understanding something by reading but about experience by exercis...

Art,

good to hear positive news from you.

it becomes luminously clear that it is identical to the teachings of Jesus

Yes.
There is one book, where this is made very explicit, it is "The Zen Teachings of Jesus" by Kenneth Leong.

Art, barely dare I to offer these words as a comfort as there is a lot that can be misunderstood (and they're not comforting in the common sense), nor do I feel myself in a position to give advice (like Job's friends who knew all the better - that was disgusting). However I decided silence is perhap...

"If someone believes that he has flown from America to England in the last few days, then, I believe, he cannot be making a mistake. And just the same if someone says that he is at this moment sitting at a table and writing. But even if in such cases I can’t be mistaken, isn’t it possible that...

Why is it illogical or too complex Occam-wise to suggest that, upon "awakening" (Self-Realization) from our illusory waking life, the illusion of our apparent life likewise dissolves in its entirety -- no footprints, no remainders, no sawdust, no nothing. This is not what I meant by "...

So, to my friend who observed that my vanishing Realizer theory is a bit too weird to be true, I ask, Is anything too weird for a dream? In my experience, the only rule that applies to dreams is you have to be asleep. Beyond that, nothing seems to me to be too weird for dreams. With "too weird...