How does neurotic mental pain remind us of who we really are? This is an odd question because we don't experience neurotic suffering as reminding us of anything of the sort! On the contrary, we experience neurotic pain as preventing...
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There is a very big problem with all our attempts to create effective psychological therapies and this problem comes about because of the way in which we are entirely incapable of differentiating between ‘what our culture says is true’, and...
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Linearity is simply a trick or gimmick, nothing more - it's a trivial affair, not a profound one. Having said this, we still have to acknowledge that it seems pretty nontrivial to us as we actually experience it - it's...
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We don't understand what ‘a game’ really is, even though we think we do. A game is a game we say, it's where we all pretend something is true when it isn't. What more is there to be said than...
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Any action that proceeds on the basis of a fixed centre (any action that happens out of a definite position) is always going to come back to where it started. What this means therefore is that if we start off...
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The one thing we can't ever do is ‘manage our thinking’, despite what we might be told to the contrary. This just isn't going to work. The reason we can't manage our thinking in the way we think we can...
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We might say that meditation is all about being aware of our thoughts rather than being sucked up in them, but what we can't say is that the goal of meditation is ‘to be aware of our thoughts without getting...
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Just as Kierkegaard says, ‘If you judge me you negate me’, so too we could say ‘If you have an image of me you negate me’, and the funny thing about this is that no one in this world interacts...
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There are two types of reality, not just the one, as we might think. There is the measurable or quantifiable type, and there is the type that can't be measured, the type that can't be quantified, the type which we...
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There are only two things in the world - either bias or non-bias, and of these two things only ‘non-bias’ is real. Bias isn't real because, as Heraclitus says, ‘the road up is the road down’. Every bias contains its...
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Our loyalty – on the whole - is not to the truth (which is of course what we would all like to believe) but to maintaining the false narrative that we - as a collective, as a group - have...
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The knowledge needed to play a game is the same thing as that game; the information that we need to have in order to operate within the simulation is that simulation. Whatever comes out of the system is that very...
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Being present isn't a task. Being present isn't a task because that is where we are (or how we are) anyway. There isn't anywhere else to be, no other place exists. Being present can’t be a task because there’s nothing...
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When we can see past our goals then our goals are serving us – they are helping us in a practical way in this case. When we can't see through our goals however then this changes everything; when the goal...
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When everything is all about ‘fidelity to the image’ then the one thing we can be sure of here is that there is no humour. There's either ‘getting it right’, which is rewarded, or there is ‘getting it wrong’, which...
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We can live life in one of two ways – either on the basis of thought, or directly, spontaneously, without any conceptual mediation whatsoever, without any precedence (or preference) at all. In the first case we never depart from our...
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The finite will always negate itself, time and time again it will negate itself. This is because the finite is not real. The only way it can get to seem real is if we look at it in a blinkered...
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No matter how much rational bullshit we throw up into the air, we can't alter the bald truth of our situation, which is that life comes down to one thing and one thing only, which is risk. We do anything rather...
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