“One evening I saw the Earth turning. Before that night, I had always seen the sun setting toward a stationary horizon. But when I saw the sun ,instead, as stationary, then I saw my horizon rising toward the sun … My mind must make an assumption. Shifting that assumption changes the world I see.
… the word ‘sunset’ channeled my perception … We become what we practice and I began to practice living on an unmoving, passive world with change happening ‘out there’ beyond my world …
How would our culture change if we practiced watching our Earth turn so that each ‘sunrise’ or ‘sunset’ reminded us daily that we live on a spinning, round, and therefore finite world?
… what other surprises fill this ‘known’ world, hiding behind unconscious assumptions at this very moment?”
Paul Krafel – Seeing Nature
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[…] homeyogaheartmindphotographyreading lilaabout me “We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity. We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us. We, or rather our reason, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in our lifetime … So, in essence, the world that your reason wants to sustain is the world created by a description and its dogmatic and inviolable rules, which the reason learns to accept and defend … from now on you should let yourself perceive whether the description is upheld by your reason or by your will.”Carlos Castaneda Tales of Power « Paul Krafel: Sunset […]