There are only ‘things’ (of whatever sort or type or variety) and the 'Non-thing', or the 'No-thing', of which there is only One. There are very many things (as many of them as we want, in fact) but only one...
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We glorify the endless reverberations of the Nullity. Or we rather we glorify one half of the endless reverberations of the Nullity whilst demonising the other half, the counterpart half, the complementary half. Thus, in society we glorify success and...
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The Manufactured Reality is always a long drawn-out exercise in tedium and futility. There's nothing else it can be - it is either a long drawn-out exercise in tedium and futility that we can see as such or it is...
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When we are safely insulated from the Immensity then the only concerns we know are small concerns, petty concerns - utterly empty concerns. Were the insulation in question to start to fail us then this would immediately induce a state...
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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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The information collapse that gives rise to the physical universe may be spoken of as a break in the underlying symmetry of the situation and it may also be seen in terms of an inversion. A symmetry break is where...
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We see the world in an inverted way. This is very easy to say, very easy to put down in the form of a single, short sentence, but to actually understand what is meant by this represents a change a...
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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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Our hidden dysfunctionality, if we are willing to admit that there is such a thing, is that we are always trying to fit everything into a model of the world, a theory of the world, that just doesn't have any...
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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 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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When we are suffering from ongoing mental pain and distress then the thing to remember is to be aware of our resistance to this pain and distress. If we aren't paying attention to our resistance in this situation then our...
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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 is nothing very mysterious or high-powered about this thing we call the self or ego-construct – we don't need to be a professor of psychology in order to understand it. Being a professor of psychology wouldn’t help at all....
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We are always under pressure to push ahead to a conclusion, and yet all conclusions are hollow! Every single conclusion there ever was or ever could be is hollow and so - we might ask - what is the big...
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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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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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