“The fridge would be full one week in a month, and then the rest of the three weeks there’s a bottle of water.”
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What is consciousness, our inner experience of private awareness? Can consciousness be explained by only physical activities of the physical world? Because if not, if there is anything else required to explain consciousness in addition to the physical brain, then consciousness would defeat a materialistic or physicalistic worldview.
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The basic notion of hara is that we don't want to move our body as isolated parts, but rather move as a cohesive, unified unit. We can extrapolate this concept into our everyday life practices. For example, the more disjointed I am, the less effective I am. If I put the ironing board too high or too low, I'll be stretching or bending to the point that my back aches and I start hating ironing more than ever.
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“There is no actual, physical universe.”
If you ever had a sneaking feeling that things may not be quite the way we all think they are, then you may want to watch Rupert Spira tell you that, “There is no actual, physical universe.”
EDITOR: It starts at around 1:58 and he drops the bomb about 60 seconds later.
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“The Song deals with the methods of and attitudes towards daily Zen practice. A central theme is a contrast between dharma-nature, reality as it is, versus buddha-nature, or self-nature. It also emphasizes practice over sutra-study.”
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