What we call ‘volition’ exists only in relation to the everyday mechanical self, and even then it is only pseudo-volition. It's not the real thing – it can’t be the real thing because the real thing doesn't exist. One way of...
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Once we understand that all our regular, everyday mental activity is about ‘striving to obtain an impossible goal’ (or ‘striving to maintain a picture of reality that isn't true’, which comes down to the same thing) then everything becomes a...
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When we're playing a finite game then we are being controlled by our need to control. We are absolutely controlled by our need to control - we couldn't be controlled more! Yet despite this we don't see this as being...
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The thinking mind is a machine for turning a profit under whatever circumstances it might find itself in, and this means that it has to be operating in the context of a situation in which there exists better and worse....
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It's interesting to see just how uninterested we are in the actual nature of things – we generally take everything for granted and busy ourselves pursuing our own uninspiring goals, pursuing our own petty concerns. What this means is that...
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What happens in life is that we start controlling and can't stop. To start off with, it never occurs to us that we need to be constantly controlling, and then - later on - we never think to question it!...
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The bubble that we are trapped within is the Bubble of Our Own Controlling. Once we understand this then we can understand why we are so trapped - we are confined within the bubble because we can't stop controlling. Or...
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Everything in life is about ‘what we want’, absolutely everything, and the funny thing about this is that it's not really us who wants it (whatever it is), and what we want isn't a real thing anyway! We are being...
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The everyday self is forever playing the Waiting Game - that is its fate, that is its unalterable destiny. This doesn't particularly sound like a lot of fun of course, and it isn't! The fate of the everyday self (or...
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Everything that is done with a view to the self being the beneficiary is a finite game and finite games never get us anywhere. Finite play is all about ‘holding onto our position no matter what’ and so of course...
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Life takes place between two states: the state of locality and the state of non-locality. The local is what we believe in whilst a non-local is what we don't believe in, but just because we don't know or don’t believe...
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In everyday life we substitute trivial uncertainty for the real thing (i.e., ‘uncertainty of the radical variety’). This substitution is complete, which is to say once it has taken place then we have no relationship with the real thing at...
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The force that is unleashed by the gnashing jaws of the polarity is a sublimely meaningless one. In terms of sheer coercive power we could say that what is being sought after in the polar struggle is the most important...
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When we are safely insulated from the Immensity then the only concerns we know are small concerns, petty concerns - utterly empty concerns. Were the insulation in question to start to fail us then this would immediately induce a state...
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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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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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Newness is an interesting thing, if we can get away with calling it ‘a thing’. When we use the word ‘newness’ we automatically feel that we have some kind of handle on it (which is of course true for anything...
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