We keep on talking about how having a continuous personal narrative to help us make sense of our lives is crucially important, if convention conventional wisdom is to be believed will stop conventional wisdom is rarely if ever to be...
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The reason we get super-serious, humourless, stressed out, aggressive, and mechanically driven in life is because our world has become decomplexified so that there is only one way to look at things, only one way to do things, only one...
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The problem with playing games all the time is that [1] We don't know who we are outside of the game, and [2] The game isn't real. The more we invest in our games that bigger this ‘problem’ gets, and we...
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Games are ‘a safe substitute for life’ because they don't involve any risk! This statement doesn't immediately make any sense to us because, when we're playing a game, we perceive it to be the case that games are all about...
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What happens in life is that we start controlling and can't stop. To start off with, it never occurs to us that we need to be constantly controlling, and then - later on - we never think to question it!...
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We become real by negative action, not by the positive type. Positive action - which is to say, continual straining and striving - causes us to become unreal, not real. The more we try to improve ourselves, develop ourselves, make...
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Thought is like a kind of ‘extraneous module’ (or ‘optional add-on’) that interprets all the incoming information for us in a very particular way; we can picture it as a kind of 'implanted microchip' or 'information-processing box' that everything gets...
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To identify with the mental image that we have of ourselves is to place thought above us, it is to place thought above us because once this image is in place then we can't help having to conform to it....
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When you think you’re ‘somebody’ then that's bad news. That's a disaster! When you know you're not anybody then you're laughing, you're as free as a bird, but we don’t happen to see things like this. We see things exactly...
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The bubble that we are trapped within is the Bubble of Our Own Controlling. Once we understand this then we can understand why we are so trapped - we are confined within the bubble because we can't stop controlling. Or...
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Whenever we encounter anything, aspects of ourselves included, we always judge. Judging is what we do - we slap a label on things and then file them away somewhere in the dusty filing cabinet of the thinking mind. We judge...
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Thought is like a room with trick doors so that every time you leave the room you find yourself right back where you started. Only there's another trick in the mix too – another trick which means that we don't...
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Everything in life is about ‘what we want’, absolutely everything, and the funny thing about this is that it's not really us who wants it (whatever it is), and what we want isn't a real thing anyway! We are being...
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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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We become terribly fond of the patterns which we get trapped in. We get so very fond of these patterns that we think they ARE us. We actually are the repetitive patterns that we fall into, for all practical purposes,...
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Two basic situations exist: one is where whatever it is that is happening gets to happen freely, gets to happen unimpededly, without us having to have any plan or purpose, and the other way is where what is happening gets...
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The everyday self is forever playing the Waiting Game - that is its fate, that is its unalterable destiny. This doesn't particularly sound like a lot of fun of course, and it isn't! The fate of the everyday self (or...
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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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