The state of meditation is, we could say, where we are ‘Present in the moment, for no reason, without intending to be’. This is a delightfully simple and uncontrived (necessarily uncontrived) situation, therefore – it’s not complicated (or sophisticated) at all. There couldn’t actually be…
Everyday life puts us in a very peculiar position – it puts us in the peculiar position of having to support, maintain and promote a proposition that is astonishingly dumb, astonishingly lame, astonishingly ‘not worth the effort’. We are obliged to continually ‘talk the situation…
Nothing that is done deliberately can be authentic. We are all about deliberation, we are all about control, but nothing that is done deliberately can ever be authentic. We don’t see things like this of course, but that’s how it is. We’ve actually got things…
Reflect Mode is where we take a break from what we’re doing and ask ourselves what exactly we are doing and why. It’s not that we have to literally ask ourselves the question; that would be too formulaic, too mechanical to do us any good….
We have – as a culture – a huge fondness for nonsensical psychological messages – we can’t seem to get enough of them, and this is odd because they don’t do us any good at all. We’re banjaxing ourselves with fine-sounding pseudo-psychological memes… A typical…
Identity is a prison, and yet it is – absurdly – a prison that we’re very proud of, a prison that we will defend to the bitter end. Identity means that ‘I am this but not that,’ and the thing about this is that ‘what…
It’s not that we should ‘do something about fear’ so as to show that we’re not afraid of it (or – if we can – vanquish it entirely) but rather that the helpful thing to do is to do nothing about it, nothing at all….
There can’t ever be such a thing as ‘a method to stop worrying’ and there’s a very simple reason for this – the universe, in essence, is composed of nothing but pure electric uncertainty with no solid, ‘reliable’ basis whatsoever. This is physics, not metaphysics…
In the psychological sphere of things, forcing always comes from fear. In the psychological sphere of things, forcing is fear and this is why we can’t ‘force ourselves to face the fear’! Deliberately (or purposefully) facing fear is an impossibility, therefore; it’s a ‘contradiction in…
To acknowledge (or become aware of) a mental limitation is to go beyond it – to not acknowledge it is to live an illusion. If this sounds too easy, too simple, it isn’t – it isn’t easy at all because – unconsciously – we have…