No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

That within which feels pain is itself pain-less; that which feels fear is fear-less; that which perceives tension is tensionless. To witness these states is to transcend them.

all the things and events we usually consider are irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave,

The most common boundary line that individuals draw up or accept as valid is that of the skin-boundary surrounding the total organism.

The more I try to see the seer, the more its absence begins to puzzle me.

to draw boundaries is to manufacture opposites. Thus

When you try to hear the subjective hearer, all you find are objective sounds. And that means that you do not hear sounds, you are those sounds. The hearer is every sound which is heard. It is not a separate entity which stands back and hears hearing.

The whole world of classical boundaries shattered and fell before the likes of Einstein, Schroedinger, Eddington, deBroglie, Bohr, and Heisenberg.

Isn’t it just as easy to say there is but one single I-ness or Self taking on different views, different memories, different feelings and sensations?

since consciousness fundamentally transcends the separate organism, then