No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

must actively and consciously attempt to increase the particular tension.

Surely there aren’t three separate entities here. Is there ever such a thing as a seer without seeing or without something seen? Is there ever seeing without a seer or without something seen? The fact is, the seer, seeing, and the seen are all aspects of one process—never at any time is one of them found without the others.

boundary line, as any military expert will tell you, is also a potential battle line,

You have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, by its presence or absence, for you are simply watching it pass by.

persona + shadow = ego.

Through abstract numbers, humans succeeded in freeing their minds from concrete things.

Westerners still have a great deal of difficulty comprehending how it could be that something deep within them actually transcends space and time, how there could be an awareness within them which, because it transcends the individual, is free of personal problems, tensions, and anxieties.

the firmer one’s boundaries, the more entrenched are one’s battles.

I am what remains, a pure center of awareness, an unmoved witness of all these thoughts, emotions, feelings, and desires.