We see the world in an inverted way. This is very easy to say, very easy to put down in the form of a single, short sentence, but to actually understand what is meant by this represents a change a...
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When we obey the directive, obey the deterministic impulse, obey the rule, obey the mechanical compulsion, then we straightaway become quintessentially predictable, which isn't really that much of a surprise, of course, but - more than this - we become...
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Our hidden dysfunctionality, if we are willing to admit that there is such a thing, is that we are always trying to fit everything into a model of the world, a theory of the world, that just doesn't have any...
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When we build a wall against ‘the other’ in order to keep it separate, in order to keep it at bay, in order to totally exclude it, we bring a jinx down upon our heads. We bring into existence a...
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When we see everything from a made-up viewpoint, an invented viewpoint, a viewpoint which is entirely arbitrary but which we nevertheless claim not to be, then everything we see is null. We construct a null world all around us and...
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When we are suffering from ongoing mental pain and distress then the thing to remember is to be aware of our resistance to this pain and distress. If we aren't paying attention to our resistance in this situation then our...
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Everything is perfect in being what it already is, and it does so without the least bit of effort or straining, without the least bit of impediment from anything. Everything is perfect at being what it already is (as Longchenpa...
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There is nothing very mysterious or high-powered about this thing we call the self or ego-construct – we don't need to be a professor of psychology in order to understand it. Being a professor of psychology wouldn’t help at all....
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We are always under pressure to push ahead to a conclusion, and yet all conclusions are hollow! Every single conclusion there ever was or ever could be is hollow and so - we might ask - what is the big...
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When we are in the mechanical mode then everything proceeds from pressure, everything happens as a result of pressure. No other factor comes into it. Pressure means that everything happens as a result of pure, unnegotiable necessity, and yet the...
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There two things in life - two ‘impulses’, we might say. One is the impulse to ‘let go’ and the other is the impulse to ‘hold on’. These two impulses are enantiodromic - one is the mirror image of the...
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'Awareness of the particular precludes awareness of the universal', says J.G. Bennett, although not in exactly these words. The former excludes the latter, and this is the principle which is responsible for the ‘Differentiated World' - the world that is...
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Our dilemma, which is characteristically one that we give no attention to at all, has been growing steadily – if not exponentially – over the centuries. The dilemma in question has to do in the need for society to regulate...
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‘But the thinking mind says this, but the thinking mind says that’, you tell me. Why don’t you understand that the thinking mind is Satan and that there is no benefit to be had from listening to it? Who cares...
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The Equilibrium World is the world that is made up of our judgments, conclusions and inferences. It is the world that's made up of our thoughts in other words, because every thought is a judgement, every thought is a conclusion....
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Whatever we force is unreal; our forcing is the creation of the unreal and forcing is all we know. As we engage in forcing we automatically narrow down our awareness so that the situation that we are trying to bring...
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We are in the presence of something which is more profound than we can ever understand, and yet because we are operating on the basis of the thinking mind we cannot appreciate this profundity. We cannot acknowledge it, we cannot...
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The world we routinely live in (and fondly imagine ourselves to understand) is made up entirely from some sort of inert padding. The word ‘padding’ implies, of course, that there is nothing in it. Or perhaps we should say that...
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