peeling the onion

As I said before,” Master Fwap continued, “the mind is like an onion; it is made up of countless layers. The layers closest to the surface of your conscious awareness are the storehouse of your memories and experiences from your current lifetime. But beneath those layers are deeper layers that contain your past-life experiences, and deeper still there are layers that access the pure intelligence of the universe itself, which I refer to as the second attention.

The second attention,” he continued, “is beyond structures. By structures I mean the dimensions of  time, space and mind. The second attention is a field of endless light that exists just beyond our grasp. It is the home of what human beings call magic and miracles.     from Surfing the Himalayas by Frederick Lenz

 

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