The most tremendous possibility of all is closed to us – this just happens to be the direction we never ever look in. We make a point of never looking...
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When we come across that pure essence of reality, says Chogyam Trungpa, then we are irritated by it. We are irritated by it because we aren't able to interact with...
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We like our thoughts. Which is to say, we can't bear to let go of them. We simply can't bring ourselves to let go of them – even if we...
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The self never could bear any existential difficulty and it never will be able to – that is simply not its department. There are lots of things the self can't...
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No matter what, we can never successfully seek the state of disequilibrium; our very seeking precludes it. Disequilibrium is there, for sure, but – from the purposeful point of view...
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Empty space (or emptiness) has a very neat trick that it can play and that is to appear solid, or substantial. It does this even though there is nothing solid...
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If the Enigma which lies at the heart of the universe is the only thing that is real then this means that this must be the source of all ‘wholesomeness',...
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The degree to which we can see that birth and death are simultaneous is the degree to which we are free, but who ever sees that birth and death are...
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The everyday sense of self is created by limiting the ways which we have of seeing the world; it is created by ‘a restriction of awareness', in other words. We...
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‘One who is seeking a reward is never free' says Krishnamurti, and this statement can be extended to the whole of purposeful behaviour. When we seek to achieve our purposes...
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Positive space can never exist by itself, but only in relation to some fixed point of reference. What this means is that positive space IS that fixed point of reference...
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