Milosz, Lawrence, Einstein and Adyashanti on nondual awareness

Poet, novelist, scientist and zen monk – an unlikely gathering of extraordinary minds with a mutual perspective…
 

To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I
or not-I.
Czeslaw Milosz

 

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness …
being at one with the object.
D. H. Lawrence

 

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveals itself in nature.  Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.
Albert Einstein

 

The truest knowing is to be able to perceive without abstraction—purely, simply.  This is what the world is crying for.
Adyashanti

 


seeing from silence

a parade of nondual perspectives


an optical delusion of consciousness

A human being is part of the whole called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty…

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. …

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.

– Albert Einstein


There’s a page of Einstein’s wisdom on this site:  peering behind the illusion


education for wholeness

scientist meets philosopher

what is this nonduality?