Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? (Lao Tzu) Make sure you have no urgent chores to take care of. Set up a timer with a soft ring. …

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. …

Emptiness is relinquishing opinions. Believers in emptiness are incurable. (Nagarjuna) The wetness of water emerges from the interaction of water molecules. It takes a handful of them to start exhibiting water-like properties that are distinct from those of individual molecules. In fact, our skin doesn’t even have specialized “wetness” receptors…

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. (Alan Watts) The abundance of magical transformations in fairy tales reveals our ancestors’ aspirations to shatter the confines of the original form. In ancient Greek mythology, the Phoenix was a symbol of regeneration and renewal…

If I had direct access to the other’s experiences, the difference between the two of us would disappear. (Edmund Husserl) You press a button, lose consciousness, and wake up after what seems like a moment later. While you were unconscious, a replicating device (the Scanner) extracted all your information and…

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (Rumi) If you look into my eyes, you will see another person like yourself. However, that would be just a projection. If you were to…

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one’s self and others.” (Dōgen Zenji) “I have a…

It’s all a matter of making friends with the Malkovich body. Rather than being an enemy that must be pounded into submission, I began imagining it as a really expensive suit I enjoy wearing. (Being John Malkovich) Imagine being asked to touch your nose with your right index finger (a…

What dissolves the imaginary problem is seeing through both the problem and the one who seems to have it. (Joan Tollifson) Imagine yourself as an alien scientist trying to gain insight into my subjective experience by exploring me as a biological organism. As I am laying in a high-resolution fMRI…