The mind’s version of meditation isn't really meditation, it's just a cheap copy. It’s not the same thing at all. The mind only deals in systems and meditation isn’t a system. Meditation isn't a system and the state of meditation...
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There is a state of mind in which everything becomes all about ‘gaining rather than losing’. This is - needless to say - a state of mind that we’re all very familiar with. It's perfectly legitimate to be concerned with...
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The ‘me’ bends everything to make it be about it - this is the distortion that is created by the self. The world isn't all about the ‘me’ however and so what happens later is that this distortion - because...
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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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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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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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The one thing we can't ever do is ‘manage our thinking’, despite what we might be told to the contrary. Managing our thinking just isn't going to work, not ever. The reason we can't manage our thinking in the way...
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Is it possible for us to live within the grooves that have been set out for us to live in, prepared in advance for us to live in, and yet be fulfilled and at peace? On the face of it,...
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Playfulness comes out of ‘a place of plenitude’, it comes out of a place where there is ‘already everything’, so to speak. When we are acting out of fullness (as opposed to acting out of deficiency) then this may be...
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There's no point in trying to fix the Extrinsic Self when it gets broken. It is meant to get broken, we could say - it has no future but to be broken. The whole point is that it should be...
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Psychological therapies of the rational kind are inevitably based on control and what this means is that we're guaranteed to get caught up in a sterile, self-conflicting (i.e., tautological) struggle. The attempted perpetuation of the self always traps us in...
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We can't solve neurotic self-contradiction on the level at which the results of this self-contradiction are being experienced. That is a hierarchy of events no one can untangle! Furthermore, we experience the pain of neurotic self-contradiction without being aware that...
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Creativity is the key to everything - without it we ‘just aren't ourselves,’ so to speak. Without it we are simply machines, doing whatever our habits or reflexes are telling us to do. In the mechanical mode of existence all...
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Our awareness is perpetually stuck - it is stuck to our thoughts, stuck to our ideas and opinions, stuck to our beliefs. The point here however is that there is no space in the world of our ideas, no space...
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Society makes us depressed and then it comes to our aid with all sorts of remedies, all sorts of so-called ‘cures’ or ‘therapies’. They're not really cures at all however – they are only manoeuvres designed to offset the suffering...
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Whenever a bunch of people get together and agree between themselves what life is or ought to be then this is where life ends, this is where life ceases. Instead, there's only conformity to the established order, there is only...
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