We always almost always seek to further ourselves, or develop ourselves, in the human world, which is to say the consensus reality that we ourselves have unwittingly created. It's pretty much unnecessary to say this - where else would we...
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There is only one ‘meaning’ in life and that is the meaning of ‘moving beyond who we think we are’ and this just happens to be the one type of meaning we don't want anything to do with! We like...
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Reality isn't a Rubik’s Cube - it can never be solved or ‘made right’! We can project what we imagine to be ‘right’ upon it, and then try to achieve it, but to do this (or to attempt to do...
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The Small Picture is created by our fear of the Big Picture. Only, there isn't any such thing as a small picture really; there is no SP in reality but we nevertheless create it (in a subjective kind of way)...
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When we give up pretending that we are the Defined Self we also give up all our purposes. We might still have nominal purposes (i.e. ‘things that we aim at’) but the difference is that we no longer invest in...
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The Group Mind is always absolutely certain of itself. This is the apparent 'advantage' of identifying with the Group Mind - the advantage of being free from doubt, the advantage of being free from all uncertainty. The Group Mind is...
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Whenever we elect a goal to be important - which is to say, whenever we decide that something shall be a goal - then we automatically create a private (or ‘self-centred’) world. This is such an utterly ubiquitous thing, and...
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The self is always kept prisoner in a prison made -up of its own prejudices - it has to be kept there because there's nowhere else it can survive. That’s the only way it can work - the conditioned self...
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In the Unreversed (or 'open') World there are no goals, and there is - therefore - none of the satisfaction that comes from successfully approaching them. There’s no goal-orientated motivation, there is no euphoric reward for effective controlling, no kudos...
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We keep on talking about how having a continuous personal narrative to help us make sense of our lives is crucially important, if convention conventional wisdom is to be believed will stop conventional wisdom is rarely if ever to be...
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The problem with playing games all the time is that [1] We don't know who we are outside of the game, and [2] The game isn't real. The more we invest in our games that bigger this ‘problem’ gets, and we...
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Two basic situations exist: one is where whatever it is that is happening gets to happen freely, gets to happen unimpededly, without us having to have any plan or purpose, and the other way is where what is happening gets...
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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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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 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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‘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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As soon as we say ‘what something is’ we get trapped in whatever it is that we have said it is; as soon as we say ‘who we are’ we get trapped in that too. The two things – ‘saying...
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