The magic of Consciousness in The Velveteen Rabbit

In this video, I consider the classic book "The Velveteen Rabbit" and what it has to say about "what is real?" It is becoming more common for even scientists to answer "what is real?" with the word Consciousness. When we explore what is consciousness, many will use the word love. So, perhaps love does make things real.

[김형준-eu]

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I felt and thought when I studied Biochemistry I mean it was not different what I learned from taoism and meditation. It is my great honor to read listen and watch from you.

[waynepierce]

Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is the meaning of life? What happens when I die? What’s the true path to happiness? We want answers to these questions mostly because we are uncomfortable as humans with being uncertain. Uncertainty causes us to have feeling we are not comfortable having. This leads us to seek answers to these questions. The alternative is to look inward to discover why the question is so important to us that we must have an answer. Stepping into groundlessness is where we can be ok with not knowing the answer. Uncertainty and not knowing is where Buddhist are more comfortable.

[MarpLG]

that was indeed very deep, we becoming real in love, but real love is love of God, in that way we "become real" eternaly.. now we are becoming real only temporary

[jasmats]

That was a great podcast with stuart Preston, My favorite one yet. I believe I grasp what you are saying about the difference between mind and conciousness.

[justmakingit]

Do you think evil is just as real as love for our consciousness?