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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the Universe. 
Zazen is not the life of an individual, it is the Universe that is breathing.

—Dogen 

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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self.

Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries.

New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration. For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration.

It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.


—Thomas Berry

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I describe consciousness as an observer in a large room with many windows. Consciousness is the observer in the room, and it experiences different individual reality streams looking from different windows. 

For example, one window could look at a playground for children, and another at a parking lot. The two perception streams are very different, but the consciousness that perceives them is one. 

Consciousness is the observer, and the views from different windows are different lives. The views from different windows can have a different overall look and feel, so this metaphor is better at capturing the difference in texture between personal consciousness streams.


—Giulio Prisco
Tales of the Turing Church: Hacking religion, enlightening science, awakening technology

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Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness. When consciousness converts theses possibilities in a (quantum) collapse event of actual experience, some of the possibilities are collapsed as physical and some as mental.

In this way, consciousness clearly is seen as the mediator of the interaction between mind and body, and there is no dualism. 

... What mediates the interaction of mind and matter? Consciousness does. What maintains the parallel functioning of mind and brain? Consciousness does.


—Amit Goswami
Quantum Doctor

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