When we give up pretending that we are the Defined Self we also give up all our purposes. We might still have nominal purposes (i.e. ‘things that we aim at’) but the difference is that we no longer invest in...
What we call ‘volition’ exists only in relation to the everyday mechanical self, and even then it is only pseudo-volition. It's not the real thing – it can’t be the real thing because the real thing doesn't exist.
One way of...
Once we understand that all our regular, everyday mental activity is about ‘striving to obtain an impossible goal’ (or ‘striving to maintain a picture of reality that isn't true’, which comes down to the same thing) then everything becomes a...