The Heart Sutra: The Womb of Buddhas - Translation and Commentary by Red Pine (PDF)
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"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore" - Rumi
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ZEN-RRNN - On Meditation & Machines - by Samim, 2015
9 years have passed since the unveiling of ZEN-RRNN, and people still think it was a joke. However, this notion belies its true significance as an eloquent summary of the core discoveries made by the Advanced AI Committee. This international group, under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's and Agent's Republic of China, wrapped up its ambitious, multidisciplinary research project in 2039, marking a pivotal moment in AI and consciousness research history.
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“Going along with the total and, perhaps, motivated ignorance of man-made environments, is the failure of philosophers and psychologists in general to notice that our senses are not passive receptors of experience.”- Marshall McLuhan. ‘Identity, Technology, and War’, 1970
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"No knowledge, no attainment, no non-attainment. that he dwells without the hindrances of the mind, having resorted to the perfection of wisdom. Because of non-existence of the hindrances of the mind, he is not frightened, he has crossed over distortions, at the end he will attain Nirvana." - Heart Sutra
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“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” - Meister Eckhart
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The term chapel perilous first appeared in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)[1] as the setting for an adventure in which sorceress Hellawes unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Sir Lancelot. T. S. Eliot used it symbolically in The Waste Land (1922).
"Chapel perilous" is also a term referring to a psychological state in which an individual is uncertain whether some course of events was affected by a supernatural force, or was a product of their own imagination. It was used by writer and philosopher Robert Anton Wilson in his 1977 book Cosmic Trigger. According to Wilson, being in this state leads the subject to become either paranoid or an agnostic.[5] In his opinion there is no third way.
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What Goes Around... Comes Around
"Bumper stickers saying WITCHES HEAL were all the rage, and if you asked anybody about using magic to harm somebody else you could pretty much count on getting a lecture on the threefold law of return—the once-widespread Neopagan belief that whatever you do, for good or ill, circles back to you like a boomerang and gives you back three times the good or ill you sent out." -John Michael Greer
