Vic Shayne author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering One of the cornerstones of spiritual awakening is that the seer and the seen become known/realized as inseparable and therefore nonexistent. The falsehood of the seer-seen duality is not an easy thing to explain…

Vic Shayne author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering Pain and pleasure are related to how the sense of self — the bundle of ideas, emotions, and memories that make up who we believe we are — accepts pleasure but tries to avoid…

Vic Shayne author The Enduring Myth of the Buddha: a hero’s journey into enlightenment Life is suffering, enlightenment, ignorance, joy, pleasure, pain, and The Middle Way: These are all associated with the life and travails of Siddhartha Gautama who was destined to become the Buddha. …

Vic Shayne Author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering Guidance is different from answers. The spiritual seeker needs guidance, and the only true guidance is from a teacher who has found the ineffable stateless state that is the source of all existence. It’s…

— who is it that realizes it is consciousness and you are the egoic self? Vic Shayne author The Self is a Belief: the idea that causes suffering Is it possible to see what you really, really are? This is no question to be dismissed with a quick answer or…

Vic Shayne author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering Have you ever enquired into your relationship with your body? If we can go back far enough to the point of our consciousness as a self then we would find a merging between the…

Vic Shayne Author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering Speaking about silence is paradoxical: What is there to say, what words can be used, to convey what silence is, when silence itself does not involve any words, speech, sound, descriptions, and so on…

Vic Shayne author Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience Ihave had out-of-body experiences (OBEs) for more than 60 years, since I was a little boy. This makes me both experienced and old. …

Vic Shayne author Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience NASA defines a black hole as a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. …