The other world is this rightly seen

There are no hidden meanings


The purloined letter, in Edgar Allan Poe's story (1845), "escaped observation by being excessively obvious." The villain "deposited the letter immediately beneath the nose of the whole world, by way of best preventing any portion of the world from perceiving it.

- D.E. Harding


"We will only understand how strange the universe is when we realize how simple it is."

- John Wheeler


This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

- Werner Erhard


As Plotinus knew and Nagajurna taught: always and always, the other world is this world rightly seen.

- Ken Wilber


That which is before you is it. Begin to reason about it and you will at once fall into error.

- P'ei Shiu


We don't know why we're here - we don't even know what we are. But we exist, and the world is going on. Our ordinary notions of space and time are just a convenient fiction. Higher dimensions are everywhere. There's no need to work for enlightenment; enlightenment is here and now, as close as the fourth dimension.

- Rudy Rucker


The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

- Huang Po


Not knowing how near the Truth is,
People seek it far away: what a pity!
This very earth is the Lotus Land of Purity,
And this body is the body of the Buddha.

- Hakuin


ascend

April 27th, 1996