The Extrinsic Self is the self that always resists reality, the self that has to resist reality. The Extrinsic Self is generally the only self we know, the only self...
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When we get cut off from the core of who we are then we become the helpless prey of external mechanical compulsions. We could also say – if we wanted...
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Equilibrium states of consciousness are - in effect – tortuous. To wake up and be faced with yet another day full of nothing but an unrelieved E-state of consciousness (in...
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Mental health can be thought of as a way of talking about how much autonomy we have in our relationship with the world. This is a fairly obvious statement, once...
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The regular everyday thoughts that come to us every day – and keep on coming on a never-ending basis – what use are they to us? What good do they...
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Pain or discomfort puts us under pressure to create the self - it sorely tempts us to create the self. As soon as we create a self this provides with...
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Only in stillness can we know ourselves. If someone were to ask, what’s the big deal with stillness, why would we bother with it (particularly when it can be so...
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‘Stickiness’ comes about because of the way in which we hold on in an absolutely unquestioning way to a basis which is utterly and completely nonsensical. We are absolutely unwilling...
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In the normal everyday state of mind that we find ourselves in most of the time, there is no awareness that there are things which are concealed from us; we...
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Conditioned consciousness is enslaved consciousness, it is consciousness that is constantly compelled to do whatever the conditioning, whatever the mechanical impulses, whatever the ‘thinking mind’ wants it to do. If...
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The everyday self is a self which ‘reacts’ automatically the whole time whilst nevertheless believing itself to be perfectly free. This self is characterized by the fact that it cannot...
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‘Personal development’ is a peculiar sort of a notion because the way we take it up invariably tends to hijack and subvert the very benefit that we hope to get...
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