Newness is an interesting thing, if we can get away with calling it ‘a thing’. When we use the word ‘newness’ we automatically feel that we have some kind of handle on it (which is of course true for anything...
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One good way of explaining the Nullity is to say that it is the fate that befalls us when we spin-doctor reality so that it conforms to the way we want it to be. As soon as we do this...
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As soon as we say ‘what something is’ we get trapped in whatever it is that we have said it is; as soon as we say ‘who we are’ we get trapped in that too. The two things – ‘saying...
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Causality is what creates the world we know and interact with every day and yet causality is a trick. The whole thing about causality is that X gives rise to Y and this is a trick because there is no...
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When we straightaway believe what we think, or act on what we think, then we create the determinate reality which is the projection of what we think. When we always believe in what we think, or always translate our thoughts...
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The reality our thought shows us is a very two-dimensional one, it is 'tinny' like cheap cutlery and completely lacking in depth, and yet - astonishingly, amazingly - it passes itself off as being perfectly above-board, perfectly legitimate. The reality...
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The situation where we are exclusively relating to our own projections (in place of actual reality) is a profoundly sterile one - no change could ever take place here, no matter how long we stick at it. No change can...
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Equanimity is the supreme Buddhist virtue, and exercising this virtue leads inescapably to the death of who we think we are! Equanimity might sound like a harmless enough thing to us but it isn't - as we've just said, it's...
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We are whatever it is that we are and that’s all we can say about it. There's no need therefore for us to try to get ourselves to be any particular way. To say that ‘we are whatever we are’...
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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 try to fix ourselves, mental health-wise, this is The Way of Error. The reason trying to fix our own mental health is 'the way of error' is because it is guaranteed to make things worse for ourselves not...
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The fact that we don't see that adapting 100% to the consensus reality is something that is always going to be injurious to our mental health has drastic consequences, naturally enough. The consequences are profound and penetrate every aspect of...
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We look for security in the world. That's just what we do. This however creates no end of difficulties for us. It creates an impossible situation - it's not just that the sense of security we seek doesn't exist, neither...
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We degrade ourselves with our own belief structures. The moment we start grasping at something and saying to ourselves ‘that this is this and that is the other’ we have (unbeknownst to ourselves) started the decay process, the degradation process....
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The extrinsic reality is made up entirely of pressure – that’s all it is, just pressure, nothing else. Extrinsic reality is pure pressure and nothing more. This pressure comes in two apparently different forms – the ‘positive’ form and the...
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We tend to think that 'not existing' is (or would be) an extraordinarily bad thing and be very averse to the prospect on this account but this is only because of our limited way of seeing things! Actually, not existing...
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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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The more we ‘scale up’ (in terms of our mode of socio-economic organization) the further we move in the direction of creating the Generic World and we are without any doubt at all absolutely committed to upscaling in this way....
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