For the concrete self living in the concrete world there is nothing but strife, there is nothing ever but strife. This is incongruous news – in one way - because...
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What does the thinking mind do? Do what is its characteristic activity? It doesn't do what we imagine it does, certainly. The thinking mind does way more than we give...
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When we meditate we don't do so for profit – on the contrary, we meditate out of our ‘actual integrity as human beings'. ‘Doing things for profit' and ‘doing things...
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The life that is lived through the thinking mind is not really life at all. The life that we live via the thinking mind is pure conflict, as Krishnamurti says....
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'The human condition', says Eckhart Tolle, is that we are ‘lost in thought'; we could equally well say that our default condition is that we are ‘obsessed with nonsense'. Being...
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Institutions inflict violence on reality. Institutions commit violence on reality (we might say) because they ignore the subtlety of reality completely – they act as if reality were not ‘what...
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A good way of thinking about consciousness and what this thing we call 'consciousness' might be is to think about the nullity. The better our understanding of the nullity is...
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When thought is allowed to take control then it sets us an impossible task – it drives us ever onward in the doomed attempt to accomplish something that can never...
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Freedom – from our everyday run-of-the-mill point of view – is a very tricky customer indeed… It's a tricky customer because every time we try to move in the direction...
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We are on very dubious grounds straightaway when we ask the question “What is consciousness?” We are on dubious grounds because we've closed the door without ever knowing that we...
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There is a type of movement that we don't know about, and yet which is happening all the time. This isn't movement as we usually understand it, which is movement...
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‘Living life in the wrong way', to borrow Lawrence Durrell's phrase, is where we spend all our time feeding the mechanical reflexes that live in us and turning our backs...
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