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I read it years ago in college and took it as a metaphor for a psychedelic experience. No surprise I was having a lot of psychedelic experiences at that point
by eof 16y ago
I read it years ago in college and took it as a metaphor for a psychedelic experience. No surprise I was having a lot of psychedelic experiences at that point in my life.
To be clear, I don't think that it was literally meant for tripping folk, but I also think kunley (top rated comment at the moment) may have missed something fundamental maybe due perhaps to not grasping a fundamental part of tibetan and buddhist culture.
To the Buddhist, the whole of existence is a struggle between experiencing the perfection of the cosmos as your bona fide identity and your mundane ego. Liberation is not something for those on their death bed, liberation is the thing to strive for.
-- well I was writing about 'The tibetan book of the dead' I have never heard of this particular book, I just realized. I figure I will just leave this here in case anyone is interested rather than just delete it.
- rblion 16y agoI think Steve Jobs, Jason Fried and many other design geeks can relate to this experience in their developing years. It is what it is. Psychedelic means mind-manifesting so the two should go hand in hand anyways. I think people just overthink enlightenment and miss how simple the universe really is. Ancient wisdom and modern science are coming together and revealing the same truths. Read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Physics-Exploration-Parallels-Mysticism/dp/1590308352/ref=pd_sim_b_16 http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Physics-Exploration-Parallels-Myst...
- eof 16y agoI'll try and get a copy of that locally and add it to my list in any case. I have read a number of books trying to tie the link between ancient mysticicsm and modern physics. I am not a physicist and have only the most basic understanding of the maths involved in quantum systems. However, without fail, these ideas seem pretty much universally dismissed by the graduate level math and physics students I have had the opportunity to talk with these things about. No one wants to let go of determinism it seems.