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The Doors of Perception
and
Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley
 
The Perennial Philosophy
Aldous Huxley
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aldous huxley
on piercing the doors of
perception
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha
was the hedge at the bottom of the garden.
At the same time, and no less obviously,
it was these flowers,
it was anything that I
- or rather the blessed Not-I -
cared to look at.
Aldous Huxley
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"Is it agreeable?" somebody asked.
"Neither agreeable nor disagreeable," I
answered. "it just is."
Istigkeit - wasn't that the
word
Meister Eckhart liked to use? "Is-ness." The
Being of Platonic philosophy - except that Plato
seems to have made the enormous, the grotesque
mistake of separating Being from becoming and
identifying it with the mathematical abstraction of
the Idea. He could never, poor fellow, have seen a
bunch of flowers shining with their own inner light
and all but quivering under the pressure of the
significance with which they were charged; could
never have perceived that what rose and iris and
carnation so intensely signified was nothing more,
and nothing less, than what they were - a transience
that was yet eternal life, a perpetual perishing
that was at the same time pure Being, a bundle of
minute, unique particulars in which, by some
unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be
seen the divine source of all existence."
From The Doors of
Perception by Aldous Huxley
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Only choiceless awareness can lead to non-duality, to the
reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love.
Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind
as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity: it is the real, the
supreme, the immeasurable.
From Huxley's Foreword to The First and
Last Freedom by
J Krishnamurti
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