We live our lives on the basis of ‘always trying to maximize the self's gratification'; or as we could also say, we live our lives according to the dictates of...
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There are just two things we can do with reality – decomplexify it (which takes positive action on our part) or not decomplexify it (which takes no doing at all)....
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The sense that we have ‘self-efficacy' is an illusion, pure and simple. We might perceive ourselves to possess this thing that we call ‘self-efficacy' but that's just a little trick...
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When we are ‘psychologically unconscious' then we are invariably ‘insincere in everything we do’. Sincerity is an impossibility for us (which is a bit of a killer if there ever...
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We are constantly creating worlds for ourselves – that's our thing, that's what we do. We might of course think that it is ‘things in the world' that we are...
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Consciousness means sussing onto the fact that my existence – such as it is – is a deterministic old business. I think I’m free but I’m not. I'm compelled to...
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There are two completely different ways of looking at life (or we could also say that there are two completely different ways of living life). One way is when we...
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The most tremendous possibility of all is closed to us – this just happens to be the direction we never ever look in. We make a point of never looking...
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When we come across that pure essence of reality, says Chogyam Trungpa, then we are irritated by it. We are irritated by it because we aren't able to interact with...
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We like our thoughts. Which is to say, we can't bear to let go of them. We simply can't bring ourselves to let go of them – even if we...
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The self never could bear any existential difficulty and it never will be able to – that is simply not its department. There are lots of things the self can't...
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