A rough and ready way of summarising the ‘message’ of Daoism might be to say that ‘interfering never does anyone any good’. There's no great poetry in putting it like this it's true, but it is nevertheless accurate enough. If...
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In our everyday lives we are in flight from space - space being something that we really don't want to know anything about. The thing about fleeing from space however is that we are at the same time fleeing from...
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In order to have the satisfaction (or dissatisfaction, if it turns out that way) of knowing what we're doing, it is necessary for us to restrict ourselves to a particular version of reality that is being created by only paying...
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The societal domain is one of unremitting superficiality. This is inevitably the case given that it is made up of a type of meaning that is entirely nominal (or entirely ‘extrinsic’), which is to say, the type of meaning where...
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The ego can only ever operate under the shadow of fear. It has to operate under the shadow of fear - this is always, always. always the case. If the ego is behaving in a way that is assertive and...
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What Buddhists call ‘the truth of anatta’ (or ‘the truth of selflessness’) isn't something dismal or terrible, and it isn't something grey, insipid and impersonal either; that's just how we imagine selflessness to be from the point of view of...
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Suchness is the perception of the world as it is in itself, which is not something we ordinarily have much if any interest in. Ordinarily, we're not interested in the world as it is in itself but only in what...
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The Domain of the Known is completely sterile, it is absolutely sterile. Words cannot say how sterile it is, how frighteningly devoid of possibilities it is. Nothing can be nothing can ever be done in this world that is not...
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The collapsed form of consciousness is the Literal World, is literalism. Everything consciousness is, literalism isn't, and everything literalism is, consciousness isn't. They couldn't be two more different things, two more incompatible things. The Literal World only gets to be...
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The everyday self is a structure, it is a structure that lives in a world made up of structures and in this world anything that isn't a structure doesn't count for anything. In this world anything that isn't a structure...
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When we obey the directive, obey the deterministic impulse, obey the rule, obey the mechanical compulsion, then we straightaway become quintessentially predictable, which isn't really that much of a surprise, of course, but - more than this - we become...
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When we build a wall against ‘the other’ in order to keep it separate, in order to keep it at bay, in order to totally exclude it, we bring a jinx down upon our heads. We bring into existence a...
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When we are in the mechanical mode then everything proceeds from pressure, everything happens as a result of pressure. No other factor comes into it. Pressure means that everything happens as a result of pure, unnegotiable necessity, and yet the...
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Causality is what creates the world we know and interact with every day and yet causality is a trick. The whole thing about causality is that X gives rise to Y and this is a trick because there is no...
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Equanimity is the supreme Buddhist virtue, and exercising this virtue leads inescapably to the death of who we think we are! Equanimity might sound like a harmless enough thing to us but it isn't - as we've just said, it's...
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We look for security in the world. That's just what we do. This however creates no end of difficulties for us. It creates an impossible situation - it's not just that the sense of security we seek doesn't exist, neither...
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We degrade ourselves with our own belief structures. The moment we start grasping at something and saying to ourselves ‘that this is this and that is the other’ we have (unbeknownst to ourselves) started the decay process, the degradation process....
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The extrinsic reality is made up entirely of pressure – that’s all it is, just pressure, nothing else. Extrinsic reality is pure pressure and nothing more. This pressure comes in two apparently different forms – the ‘positive’ form and the...
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