There is a single (and most singular) principle that lies behind both the physical world and the world of our thoughts, and this principle is to be found neither in...
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‘Stickiness’ comes about because of the way in which we hold on in an absolutely unquestioning way to a basis which is utterly and completely nonsensical. We are absolutely unwilling...
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What ‘a rule’? How do rules work? What they do? How do rules get to be rules? These are all questions that we are very unlikely to ask ourselves during...
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When we obey the rules we unfailingly get nullified. This is always the way – it couldn't possibly be any other way. Obeying the rules equals falling into the nullification...
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We think ourselves into existence every day! This is the nature of the game, this is what it’s all about – whether we realize it or not. The urge to think...
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The type of communication we are exposed to every day is a degraded currency. It has been degraded to the point at which it is no longer communication at all...
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In the normal everyday state of mind that we find ourselves in most of the time, there is no awareness that there are things which are concealed from us; we...
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The operation of entropy means that we are provided with a false version of ourselves, a ‘version’ which is characterized by a base-level of inescapable pain or suffering. If we...
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The story is that Shiva destroys the fifth head of Brahma. According to Devdutt Pattanaik, Brahma’s fifth head is ‘his own imaginary understanding of who he is’. The fifth head,...
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Conditioned consciousness is enslaved consciousness, it is consciousness that is constantly compelled to do whatever the conditioning, whatever the mechanical impulses, whatever the ‘thinking mind’ wants it to do. If...
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The everyday self is a self which ‘reacts’ automatically the whole time whilst nevertheless believing itself to be perfectly free. This self is characterized by the fact that it cannot...
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Samsara is a rubbish house. It’s a house full of rubbish – terribly stale rubbish, infinitely sterile rubbish… Could there be any spectacle more terrible than the sterility of samsara? Even...
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