If our private worlds are to make sense to us - if they are to exist for us at all - then we must be blind to the bigger picture; this is the only way the endeavour is ever going...
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Reality is nuanced, whilst our mental constructs never can be. The thinking mind works by ignoring all nuance - that's how it gets to make its generalisations. Thought blankets the world with its bland generalisations, which means that the world...
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It is in the nature of reality to ‘pretend to be what it isn't’ (or to 'hide its true nature from us’) says Heraclitus. Stuff isn't straightforward in the way we always think it is, in other words. Things -...
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Whenever we elect a goal to be important - which is to say, whenever we decide that something shall be a goal - then we automatically create a private (or ‘self-centred’) world. This is such an utterly ubiquitous thing, and...
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The thinking mind is a machine for turning a profit under whatever circumstances it might find itself in, and this means that it has to be operating in the context of a situation in which there exists better and worse....
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In the Unreversed (or 'open') World there are no goals, and there is - therefore - none of the satisfaction that comes from successfully approaching them. There’s no goal-orientated motivation, there is no euphoric reward for effective controlling, no kudos...
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Suchness is the perception of the world as it is in itself, which is not something we ordinarily have much if any interest in. Ordinarily, we're not interested in the world as it is in itself but only in what...
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When we see everything from a made-up viewpoint, an invented viewpoint, a viewpoint which is entirely arbitrary but which we nevertheless claim not to be, then everything we see is null. We construct a null world all around us and...
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Our actual situation – the situation that is genuinely there when look to see ‘what is there’ – is that we are going somewhere but we don't know either who we are or where we are going (or where we...
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