One of the most glaring misunderstandings we come across in what we might call ‘rational psychology’ is that we assume it to be the case that we can will change in ourselves. Even to call this a ‘misunderstanding’ isn't addressing...
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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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There two things in life - two ‘impulses’, we might say. One is the impulse to ‘let go’ and the other is the impulse to ‘hold on’. These two impulses are enantiodromic - one is the mirror image of the...
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There are only two modes of being that are possible for us - the tangible and the intangible - and of these two only the intangible is real. This is odd of course because we always understand things exactly the...
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Only the part or the fragment can have an identity and the part or fragment don't actually exist. The part doesn't exist because in wholeness there are no parts, and wholeness is all there is. Parts are created by thought,...
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