@nee_massey I mean, you ARE a prize but I get your point, LOL
One time Carl Cox used Eventbrite for an otherwise Ticketmaster only venue here in the states. Kinda surprised that it was even possible. It sold out and it was cool.
All the great works—the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, the alchemical texts—are saying the same thing in different languages: be here now, fully and completely. The Kingdom of Heaven, Nirvana, the Philosopher’s Stone, enlightenment—they’re not places, objects, or afterlives. They’re states of consciousness. Presence is the Stone that transmutes lead into gold, turning the dull and painful moments of life into something luminous. Presence is the key to immortality because when you’re fully in the now, you’ve stepped outside time—and what’s outside time cannot die. Presence heals because most suffering is self-inflicted through resistance and regret. When you stop splitting yourself between yesterday and tomorrow, the wound closes. You become whole.
If it’s that simple, why do the Work? Because simple isn’t easy. The mind is conditioned to live anywhere but here. Trauma, distraction, and craving keep us running in circles. Alchemy, meditation, martial arts—these are just tools to retrain the nervous system, to build the strength to hold presence without squirming to escape. The Diamond Sutra says the Dharma is like a raft—you use it to cross, then you burn it. Presence is the other shore. Stop chasing symbols. Live what they meant. Start now.
There are two polarities of selfhood, the limited ego anxiously identified with the perishing body and the timeless self, identified with the immortal Spirit. The purpose of life is to find one's spiritual self and unite with the divine infinite source of existence.
The personality we exhibit is caught in the net of our own delusions while God alone is real and dwells within unseen as we pass through the masks of time. Our ageless spirit is temporarily locked in an aging ever-changing physiology. As the heart beats, millions of cells are being born and are dying every second in our physical body, yet we retain our sense of moment to moment “I Am-ness." What is the nature of our mind and presence of being that allows us to experience Selfhood, a miraculous cognitive achievement of human evolution, a personal identity with unique character and perspective? As long as we identify with the body/mind in samsara we will suffer until finding the center of pure awareness, the eternal presence temporarily alive as us.
Wow, nice work American #healthcare#organdonation. Reads like a #horror story.
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