When the system of thought sets us futile or meaningless tasks (as it does do) and compels us to engage (and believe) in them, there is - in a superficial sense – an actual point to what it is doing....
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When we interact with the world it is almost always via our internal map, almost always via our ‘neat and tidy logical understanding of the way things are’. Every time we interact with the world in a purposeful way (which...
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Limits excite us. Limits excite us whilst freedom - on the other hand - frightens the hell out of us. We might say that we love being free (or that we greatly value freedom as an ideal) but really its...
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The very big problem with purposeful behaviour is that just as long as we are engaging in it, we will never encounter unstructured space. Goal-orientated behaviour will only ever take us to our goal, obviously enough! We don't want it...
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Our basic delusion, we might say, is that we see ‘the good thing’ as existing outside of us, and as being - as a result - something that we need to deliberately acquire. This requires both a theory (or map)...
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Only thought says what things are! Nothing else does, nothing else is interested in doing so. This is a good thing to remember because it shows us that we live in a world that is made up of thought’s definitions....
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