Our perception of the world is almost entirely ‘thought-based’. It's not that we’re aware that the world which we are relating to on a daily basis is ‘a representation created by thought’; on the contrary, we aren't aware of the...
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When we tune into the ongoing question of “What happens next?” then this is life - this is all there is to life (i.e., there’s nothing else outside of this). All there is is the ‘unfolding moment’. When - on...
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What kind of possibilities are there for the Extrinsic Self as it goes about its business in the world of Definite Appearances - which is the only world it can ever know, the only world it can have ever have...
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When we find that we can no longer conceal things, lie about things, sneakily make things ‘be what we want them to be’ then this is surprisingly disabling! What we discover in this moment is that we can't function at...
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The thing about the mechanical life is that we always have to be in the service of some goal or other; the goal has to be there the whole time and it has to be unquestionably important to us -...
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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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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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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 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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