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    •    – Preface
    •    – Introduction
    • Prologue
    •    – Opening Words
    •       – About This Book
    •       – About Writing Style
    •       – Mysterious Author
    •    – On Knowledge and Wisdom
    •    – On Consciousness and Awareness
    •    – On God, Spirit and Soul
    •    – On Reality and Actuality
    •    – On Change and Transformation
    •    – On Interconnectedness
    •    – On Intelligence
  • INFINITΞ
    • Infinite World of Quantum and Zen
    •    – The Essence of Zen
    •    – The Birth of Infinite Quantum Zen
    • Infinite Living System – The Miracle of Life
    •    – Infinite Fractal of Creation
  • TRΛNSFORMΛTION
    • Towards An Era of Transformation
    •    – Outdated View of Life
    •    – The Emergence of a New Vision
    •       – Ancient Wisdom Resurfaces
    •       – The Living Earth (Gaia)
    •       – Metaphysical Paradigm Shift
  • LIFΞ
    • The Essence of Life
    •    – What Is Life?
    •    – In Search for the Meaning of Life
    •    – The Mystery of Human Life
    •    – A Species With Collective Amnesia
    •    – Humanity – The Pinnacle of Evolution?
    •    – Humans – Masters of Storytelling
    •    – The Game of Survival
    •    – The False Sense of Self
    • The Preciousness of Human Life
    •    – When Does a Human Life Begin?
    • The Existential Paradox
    •    – The Fear of Annihilation (Non-Existence)
    •    – Change is the Only Constant
  • CONSCIOUSNΞSS
    • The Mystery of Consciousness
    •    – Panpsychism – Dilemma of Consciousness
    • Living Consciousness – Vibrant Interconnected Reality
  • ΛWΛRΞNΞSS
    • Awakening From the Dream of Life
    • What Is Self-Awareness?
    • Living Awareness – The Heart of Living Life
    •    – What Is Living Awareness?
    •    – 7 Levels of Living Awareness
    • The Art of Lucid Living
    • The Art of Mindful Living
  • QUΛNTUM
    • Living Quantum World – A New Synthesis of Knowledge
    •    – Problems of Understanding the Quantum World
    •    – Crisis at the Edge of Physics, Science & Cosmology
    •    – Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Entanglement
    •    – The Role of Consciousness in the Quantum World
    •    – Quantum Nonlocality & Multiverse
    •        – Interconnected Nested Multiverse
    •        – Shifting into a Parallel Universe
    •    – Quantum Nonlocality & The Nature of Time
    •        – The New View of Time – Time Equals Life
  • FUTURΞ
    • Non-linear Teachings of Sambodhi Padmasamadhi

What is Reality? Alan Watts Lecture | Awaken the Living Awareness Within by Sambodhi Padmasamadhi

by Sambodhi Padmasamadhi Saturday, March 06, 2021
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What Is Reality?. And these basic ideas I call myth, not using the word ‘myth’ to mean simply something untrue, but to use the word ‘myth’ in a more powerful sense. A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Now, for example, a myth in a way is a metaphor. If you want to explain electricity to someone who doesn’t know anything about electricity, you say, well, you talk about an electric current. Now, the word ‘current’ is borrowed from rivers. It’s borrowed from hydraulics, and so you explain electricity in terms of water.

Now, electricity is not water, it behaves actually in a different way, but there are some ways in which the behavior of water is like the behavior of electricity, and so you explain it in terms of water. Or if you’re an astronomer, and you want to explain to people what you mean by an expanding universe and curved space, you say, ‘well, it’s as if you have a black balloon, and there are white dots on the black balloon, and those dots represent galaxies, and as you blow the balloon up, uniformly all of them grow farther and farther apart. But you’re using an analogy–the universe is not actually a black balloon with white dots on it.

So in the same way, we use these sort of images to try and make sense of the world, and we at present are living under the influence of two very powerful images, which are, in the present state of scientific knowledge, inadequate, and one of the major problems today are to find an adequate, satisfying image of the world. Well that’s what I’m going to talk about. And I’m going to go further than that, not only what image of the world to have, but how we can get our sensations and our feelings in accordance with the most sensible image of the world that we can manage to conceive.

All right, now–the two images which we have been working under for 2000 years and maybe more are what I would call two models of the universe, and the first is called the ceramic model, and the second the fully automatic model. The ceramic model of the universe is based on the book of Genesis, from which Judaism, Islam, and Christianity derive their basic picture of the world. And the image of the world in the book of Genesis is that the world is an artifact. It is made, as a potter takes clay and forms pots out of it, or as a carpenter takes wood and makes tables and chairs out of it. Don’t forget Jesus is the son of a carpenter. And also the son of God. So the image of God and of the world is based on the idea of God as a technician, potter, carpenter, architect, who has in mind a plan, and who fashions the universe in accordance with that plan.

So basic to this image of the world is the notion, you see, that the world consists of stuff, basically. Primordial matter, substance, stuff. As parts are made of clay. Now clay by itself has no intelligence. Clay does not of itself become a pot, although a good potter may think otherwise. Because if you were a really good potter, you don’t impose your will on the clay, you ask any given lump of clay what it wants to become, and you help it to do that. And then you become a genius. But the ordinary idea I’m talking about is that simply clay is unintelligent; it’s just stuff, and the potter imposes his will on it, and makes it become whatever he wants.

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About Author: Sambodhi Padmasamadhi

The author and the creator (Sambodhi Padmasamadhi) of Infinite Quantum Zen Website is an Eternal Spiritual Being (Living Awareness) Experiencing Itself through the Fractal-like Consciousness of the same․ Tools (Meditation‚ Mindfulness‚ Virtual Reality‚ Gaming‚ Coding‚ Writing‚ Digital Art)․ In other words: Flowing River of Consciousness that is Aware of its existence․ Our Core Essence as Spirit or Spark of God flows through Life‚ Reality‚ Existence much in the same way as water flows in a river․ i․e․‚ I AM both named and nameless, singular and plural, everyone and no one at the same time; no one special, yet special in every sense of the word – an enigma wrapped in mystery. As is the author, so is their work – a riddle to be solved.

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