Psychology in the West addresses itself to the identity, to the ‘formalised notion of who (or what) we are’. We can’t think what else it could possibly be about. It addresses itself to the purposeful ‘doer’ or ‘actor’ – the...
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When we are ‘orientated towards a centre’ then we are blind to the world that really is all around us (which is the world that doesn't have a centre, the world that doesn't have any rules) and – instead –...
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The point isn't to fight the monkey mind and beat it or subdue it by a mixture of willpower and expedient means, which is how we automatically understand it. What we are pleased to call ‘willpower’ is merely our automatic...
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Life isn't to be found within the drab and dreary confines of our crappy mental categories. It does not comply with our regulations; it can't be prevailed upon to even recognise them. Thought builds a pen or enclosure for life...
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Instead of life, we're given a package, a game, and this package / game is made up of two aspects: [1] the aspect that we are supposed to see and believe in, and [2] The aspect which we are not...
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Society is a ‘crazy-making’ machine. A set of values are solemnly held up as being true when they absolutely aren't. If we dare to say anything however then this is immediately bounced back on us (so as to say, ‘this...
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If the negative psychologist pays attention to stillness, then positive psychology concerns itself exclusively with action, with noise, with measurable parameters, with ‘blank rules’ rather than unspecifiable nuances. Stillness doesn't figure, and it certainly isn't seen as the ‘cure’ for...
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When symmetry is broken then the nature of reality gets represented to us in terms of clashing opposites. This is actually the only world we know - the World of Conflict. The conflict goes on and on and it will...
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There is no formula for chaos, but there is for everything else. Chaos can't be collapsed, can't be summarised, can't be compressed, whilst everything else - anything that isn't chaotic - can be. This is the power of chaos, we...
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We stretch everything we can stretch, hoping thereby to get the maximum amount of ‘good’ from it. We keep on stretching it (or ‘milking it’) until we can't stretch it anymore, and that's when things start to go pear-shaped on...
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In the Formal World there is no such thing as free will - obviously there can't be or else there be nothing ‘formal’ about it. Formal means that everything is decided in advance - it means [1] That certain conditions...
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Collectively speaking, we have absolutely no interest in Being. That’s just not a ‘thing’ for us. This is indisputably true - gaining Being absolutely can't be a collective endeavour, we absolutely can't turn it into a task that can be...
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Instead of life, we are presented with a package, we are presented with a game, and this package or game has two distinct elements to it - the one that we're supposed to see (which is made up of the...
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Zero perspective equals ‘the self’. If we wanted a handy definition of the self – which is to say, the ubiquitous sense of having a concrete identity that we all subscribe to – then that would be it. To gain...
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There's no such thing as ‘a framework within which we could grow’, no such thing as ‘a logical context within which we can thrive and realize our potential’. Within the framework (which equals 'the reality that we have been provided...
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Any construct, any system, when it is used allowed to run freely on its own terms, will always do the very same thing - it will expand rapidly until it has taken up all the available space. It will blow...
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Paradox (or self-contradiction) is present, in seed form, in even the simplest of machines, in even the most basic of tools. There is paradoxicality even in machines as simple as a plough or water wheel. It may not be in...
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The good feeling we get when we pick up a bargain in the local supermarket has nothing to do with a consideration of the benefit to our personal finances. That's the way we understand it - that's the way it...
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