John Parker

“It seems that the parietal lobes of the brain have the function of creating a sense of time and space, and when that part of the brain goes offline, we lose our sense of there being an inside and an outside to our experience.”
― Bodhipaksa, Living as a River: Finding Fearlessness in the Face of Change

“There was also no longer any sense of my moving along a time line. Time was no longer a path with the past behind me and the future before me, as we commonly conceive of it. Instead there was a sense of an eternally unfolding present moment. Rather than time being a journey along a linear path, change appeared to be mandala-like. It seemed to be like a flower seen from above, endlessly unfolding from within, or like a kaleidoscope’s image forever rearranging itself. It struck me as highly misleading to think in terms of there being a past behind us and a future ahead of us. Instead there was only this one present moment, eternally unfolding according to its nature. I found myself in an eternal, timeless present.”
― Bodhipaksa, Living as a River: Finding Fearlessness in the Face of Change

“As part of the Six Element Practice, for example, we may repeat the phrase, “This is not me; this is not mine; I am not this.” A verse such as this is, as it were, dropped into the mind.”
― Bodhipaksa, Living as a River: Finding Fearlessness in the Face of Change

“Birth and death are the two states that bracket our lives. One thrusts us crying into consensual reality from the Pleroma and the other ushers us back there at the end of life.”
― Anthony Peake, Opening the Doors of Perception: The Key to Cosmic Awareness