The triumph of the replicator is simply to replicate. This is its ultimate achievement, the only achievement it is capable of recognizing. The beauty of this scheme – if we may call it that – is the way in which...
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Only in stillness can we know ourselves. If someone were to ask, what’s the big deal with stillness, why would we bother with it (particularly when it can be so very unsettling if we do come across it) this would...
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“What is the rule that tells us how to be?” is the same as asking what the method is for being, what the correct procedure or protocol is for being. We are asking what the correct formula is, so that...
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Pain or discomfort puts us under pressure to create the self – it sorely tempts us to create the self. As soon as we create a self this provides with what looks like a ‘way out’ – or at least...
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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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Things aren't what we think they are, people aren’t what we think they are, nothing is what we think it is, and this turns out to be - surprisingly - the best news ever! This isn't of course what we would...
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We all get trapped in the narrative. That's the thing that happens in life - if someone were to ask, ‘What is the main thing that happens in life?’ then this would be the best answer. The best answer is...
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It's always important to know what the scam is, what the con job is. Obviously it's important to know that. The con job which is society is an easy one to explain, even though no one will ever admit it,...
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We live withing the confines of a terribly dull environment, an environment which is not interesting ‘in itself’, for what it actually is, but only because of what it is slyly referencing. What it is 'slyly referencing' is the egoic...
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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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When we try to get through a period of unstructured time via strategies then the unforeseen consequences of this is that we create ‘the operator of the strategy’, which is to say, ‘the controller’. Controlling always creates the controller -...
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The conditioned self is ‘the bad thing that has already happened to us without us realising that it has’. It’s a disaster that has befallen us which we don’t see as a disaster. But why is the conditioned self ‘a...
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A formal world is a world in which everything that happens can always be described in a clear and precise way. That’s what makes a formal world into a formal world – the fact that it can be definitively or...
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Solutions equal ‘the self'. Solutions equal the self and the self doesn't exist. The self doesn't exist and so neither do our hoped for solutions. There are no solutions, and yet we live in a world that is based on...
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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...
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