Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

Go sit on a bench, and silently look at the world.

Is what you see personal or impersonal? Robotic or non-robotic? Can any words adequately describe what is seen? Who is the see-er? Can any words adequately describe the see-er? Can either the see-er or the seen be understood? Be careful. This is not about something that can be imagined.

Alexander Pope wrote, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring."

A man asked a sage for the deepest truth of human existence. The sage replied, "When you have drunk up all the water in the Pacific Ocean in one gulp, then come back, and I'll tell you." Hearing these words caused the man to have a realization.