The point isn't to fight the monkey mind and beat it or subdue it by a mixture of willpower and expedient means, which is how we automatically understand it. What we are pleased to call ‘willpower’ is merely our automatic...
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When we take two steps forward in virtual space (which is to say, in the Mind-Created Virtual Reality) this equals two steps backwards. It's not that we take two steps in one direction and then two steps in the opposite...
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Linearity is simply a trick or gimmick, nothing more - it's a trivial affair, not a profound one. Having said this, we still have to acknowledge that it seems pretty nontrivial to us as we actually experience it - it's...
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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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To identify with the mental image that we have of ourselves is to place thought above us, it is to place thought above us because once this image is in place then we can't help having to conform to it....
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Everything in life is about ‘what we want’, absolutely everything, and the funny thing about this is that it's not really us who wants it (whatever it is), and what we want isn't a real thing anyway! We are being...
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