Awakening consciousness collective

10/21/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmYN2xl6hVE&t=6s

Kaliyuga is the 4th and last Yuga of the Yuga cycle. According to ancient Hindu texts it is supposed to last 432,000 years or 1200 divine years. But it is wr...

02/22/2025

12/06/2024

07/13/2024

“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.”

~Ram Dass

05/03/2024

Like a glimmer of stars 🌟 in the night 🌙 the veil flutters briefly aside and reveals our 2024 poster by Duncan Eagleson!

The New York Faerie Festival
In Ouaquaga, NY
June 28, 29, & 30, 2024
11 - 7 Daily

A Mythical Midsummer's Dream
Live Music - Unique Entertainment - Fine Arts & Crafts.

Camping & Day Passes Available.
Special Evening Events For Campers!
See our website for more info.

05/03/2024

~SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA
I have no scruple of change, nor fear of death,
Nor was I ever born,
Nor had I parents.
I am existence Absolute, knowledge Absolute, bliss Absolute,
I am That, I am That,

I cause no misery, nor am I miserable;
I have no enemy, nor am I enemy.
I am existence Absolute, knowledge Absolute, bliss Absolute,
I am That, I am That,

I am without form, without limit,
Beyond space, beyond time,
I am in everything, everything is in me.
I am the bliss of the universe,
Everywhere am I.
I am existence Absolute, knowledge Absolute, bliss Absolute,
I am That, I am That,

I am without body or change of the body,
I am neither senses, nor object of the senses,
I am existence Absolute, knowledge Absolute, bliss Absolute,
I am That, I am That,

I am neither sin, nor virtue,
Nor temple, nor worship,
Nor pilgrimage, nor books.
I am existence Absolute, knowledge Absolute, bliss Absolute,
I am That, I am That.

05/17/2022

Everyone say a prayer for the people who lost their lives in the horrible shooting that happened in Buffalo, NY.

09/13/2021

A bit of insight from the always delightful Alan Watts...

"People like to make out ways that you are "nothing but". Now, if you want to live in a way that is saying "I think life is disgusting"; supposing you want to deny being, then you can always describe it in ways that are offensive. You see, there is always a way of talking about something that makes it sound terrible!"

01/27/2021

"There was a young man who said though,
it seems that I know that I know,
but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.” -Alan Watts

01/26/2021

Just a quick warning. We do not support or partner with anyone claiming to be a "spellcaster" and offering to get your lost love back. These appear to be scams, and we do not accept their endorsement.

11/23/2020

"But from a deeper standpoint it became obvious that the idea of the Bodhisattva is implicit in the logic of Buddhism, that it flows naturally from the principle of not-grasping and from the doctrine of the unreality of the ego. For if nirvana is the state in which the attempt to grasp reality has wholly ceased, through the realization of its impossibility, it will obviously be absurd to think of nirvana itself as something to be grasped or attained. If, furthermore, the ego is merely a convention, it is nonsense to think of nirvana as a state to be attained by some being.

All Bodhisattva-heroes should cultivate their minds to think: all sentient beings of whatever class...are caused by me to attain the boundless liberation of nirvana. Yet when vast, innumerable, and immeasurable numbers of beings have thus been liberated, in truth no being has been liberated! Why is this, Subhuti? It is because no Bodhisattva who is truly a Bodhisattva holds to the idea of an ego, a personality, a being, or a separate individual.

The corollary of this position is that if there is no nirvana which can be attained, and if, in reality, there are no individual entities, it will follow that our bo***ge in the Round is merely apparent, and that in fact we are already in nirvana- so that to seek nirvana is the folly of looking for what one has never lost. Naturally, then, the Bodhisattva makes no motion to depart from the Round of samsara, as if nirvana where somewhere else, for to do so would imply that nirvana is something that needs to be attained and that samsara is an actual reality. In the words of the Lankavatara Sutra:

Those who, afraid of the sufferings arising from the discrimination of birth-and-death (samsara), seek for Nirvana, do not know that birth-and-death and Nirvana are not to be separated from one another; and, seeing that all things subject to discrimination have no reality, (they) imagine that Nirvana consists in the future annhialation of the senses and their fields (3). (II. 18)

To strive, then, to blot out the conventional world of things and events is to admit it exists in reality. Hence the Mahayanist principle that "what has never arisen does not have to be annihilated".
These are not the idle speculations and sophistries of a system of subjective idealism and nihilism. They are answers to a practical problem which may be expressed thus: "If my grasping of life involves me in a vicious circle, how am I to learn not to grasp? How can I try to let go when trying is precisely not letting go? Stated in another way, to try not to grasp is the same thing as to grasp, since its motivation is the same- my urgent desire to save myself from a difficulty. I cannot get rid of this desire, since it is one and the same desire as the desire to get rid of it! This is the familiar, everyday problem of the psychological "double-bind" of creating the problem by trying to solve it, of worrying because one worries, and being afraid of fear."

Alan Watts The Way of Zen

3- In Suzuki, p.55. The "fields" of the senses are the areas or aspects of the external world to which the particular sense organs are related.