We live in an impoverished environment and – because we have grown used to it – we think that this is normal. We think that this is the only way things can be. Impoverishment, and how to survive impoverishment, has...
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Humanity is divided into ‘the dreamers' and ‘the doers', or – at least – that's what we love to say in the West. We’re nailing our colours to the mast when we say this; we’re making our position very clear....
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The world that we are in is the world in which we lose ourselves. It's a ‘lose yourself' world – it's an invitation to lose ourselves that we can't refuse! We lose ourselves in identity – we think we are...
Continue readingSuppose that there was just space and nothing else: in this scenario there is nothing but space and space is perfectly open, perfectly unobstructed, perfectly luminous. This is ‘the open situation' – the situation of not being limited in any...
Continue readingOur actual situation – the situation that is genuinely there when look to see ‘what is there’ – is that we are going somewhere but we don't know either who we are or where we are going (or where we...
Continue readingConsciousness isn't a limited kind of thing. It isn't actually any kind of thing at all because all things are limited. That's what it means to be a thing – it means that you are limited! We can say that...
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We are hypnotised by patterns of non-change that appear to be change and the result of this hypnosis is that our consciousness is completely controlled by these patterns. The patterns in question have an absolute hold on us and they...
Continue readingEvery time we think we create a Finite Game to get trapped in, and this is just another way of saying that thought, when we can’t see it for what it is, acts as ‘the Predator'. The game consumes us;...
Continue readingWhenever we have a literal belief about the nature of reality then we have fallen victim to the Predator. Whenever we have any kind of belief the Predator is feeding on us, is feasting on us, is dining upon our...
Continue readingThe self operates by asserting the definite, by asserting the known. This constitutes the entirety of its ‘modus operandi'. Just to say this is not enough, however; we also have to point out, and emphasise as much as we can,...
Continue readingWhen we resist what Krishnamurti calls 'the endless current' (the endless current which is reality itself), what happens then? What are the consequences of this action?...
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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....
Continue readingThe self's nature is to play finite games, so we have said. Dogs bark, chickens cluck, ducks quack, and the self plays finite games. We might also add that the self is unable to do anything else, that it is...
Continue readingAnyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart...
Continue readingWe can, if we want to, understand the whole of psychology in terms of the principle of mobility which is a principle that is symbolised in alchemy by the mysterious and highly elusive figure of Mercurius....
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The pure undiluted confidence of the uncompromised ego represents an entry in the debit column in the ‘Cosmic Account Book’. It represents an entry in the debit column simply because there is nothing to back it up, nothing of substance...
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