In the Formal World there is no such thing as free will - obviously there can't be or else there be nothing ‘formal’ about it. Formal means that everything is decided in advance - it means [1] That certain conditions...
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Our normal form of consciousness is one in which we are endlessly fascinated by trivialities of one sort or another. We are lost in trivialities, we are lost in endless, all-pervading superficiality. This is ‘conditioned consciousness’ - it is awareness...
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Our life in the conditioned realm is all about one thing and one thing only - it's all about faithfully reproducing (or replicating) that realm over and over again, without ever stopping to look at what we’re actually doing. We...
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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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Only in stillness can we know ourselves. If someone were to ask, what’s the big deal with stillness, why would we bother with it (particularly when it can be so very unsettling if we do come across it) this would...
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