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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Being present isn't a task. Being present isn't a task because that is where we are (or how we are) anyway. There isn't anywhere else to be, no other place exists. Being present can’t be a task because there’s nothing...
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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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We are in the presence of something which is more profound than we can ever understand, and yet because we are operating on the basis of the thinking mind we cannot appreciate this profundity. We cannot acknowledge it, we cannot...
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Things aren't what we think they are, people aren’t what we think they are, nothing is what we think it is, and this turns out to be - surprisingly - the best news ever! This isn't of course what we would...
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