One more translation that fits well in both the dharmic and plant medicine contexts. People are so fascinated by all these stories about saints or 5-MeO-DMT reports of transcendence. Yet, in the end, your life is unique and all these accounts can do for you is provide some motivation on the path. I see more and more common themes in spiritual circles and the psychedelic community. Dharma practitioners tend to be well-structured but close-minded, while medicine users are flexible but have no solid direction. A marriage of these two may be the answer, but I can't see it happening in society. This project could only be realized inside a person's mind, imo.
Time and the Watcher
The body acts as a nurturing ground for the soul, or like a mother's womb: the soul matures within it, feeding upon it. The soul devours the body in which it resides. That is why bodies grow old and perish: for the soul is a drop of merciless Time. (Shailendra Sharma)
How often do you need important but not reliable knowledge? The question seems like a mistake, but think about it - knowledge that you do not have can be important, but only the knowledge that you do have can be reliable
Within time itself, there is no time. A person writing a diary changes over time, but the observer within them does not change at all. The very quality of life, however, can change incredibly under the influence of constant observation. Yet the experience of these changes is completely unbiased, no matter how much you talk about it. By and large, real and truly understood personal experience makes a person extremely independent. And if in society everyone's experience is built into a common system and depends on external statements, spiritual experience is diametrically opposed. This is precisely why beginning practitioners talk so much about what and how things should "rightly" be and what is written where on the matter - because personal experience, even if it exists, is not realized, not understood to a proper degree. In essence, it is impossible to "share" any experience. When there is a similar, close, resonant experience, you can attune to each other, but as a structure, experience is nontransferable. You can share apples, but you cannot give away the experience of growing an apple tree - that is already accomplished.
Time and the Watcher
The body acts as a nurturing ground for the soul, or like a mother's womb: the soul matures within it, feeding upon it. The soul devours the body in which it resides. That is why bodies grow old and perish: for the soul is a drop of merciless Time. (Shailendra Sharma)
How often do you need important but not reliable knowledge? The question seems like a mistake, but think about it - knowledge that you do not have can be important, but only the knowledge that you do have can be reliable
Within time itself, there is no time. A person writing a diary changes over time, but the observer within them does not change at all. The very quality of life, however, can change incredibly under the influence of constant observation. Yet the experience of these changes is completely unbiased, no matter how much you talk about it. By and large, real and truly understood personal experience makes a person extremely independent. And if in society everyone's experience is built into a common system and depends on external statements, spiritual experience is diametrically opposed. This is precisely why beginning practitioners talk so much about what and how things should "rightly" be and what is written where on the matter - because personal experience, even if it exists, is not realized, not understood to a proper degree. In essence, it is impossible to "share" any experience. When there is a similar, close, resonant experience, you can attune to each other, but as a structure, experience is nontransferable. You can share apples, but you cannot give away the experience of growing an apple tree - that is already accomplished.
