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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The only real adventure is the movement out of the tired old mental equilibrium state that we are almost permanently stuck in. This is the only adventure worthy of the...
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What happens when we are ‘afraid of newness’? What are the dynamics of this particular sort of situation? What consequences can we expect from it? What sort of process will...
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Addiction is a journey into negative freedom. A journey into negative freedom journey is not the sort of thing we can understand for what it really is at the time...
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The most basic ‘psychological movement’ there is is the movement of pushing away mental pain or discomfort. This response is so ingrained that it happens all by itself! This is...
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The ‘point’ of all this mechanical, logical, purposeful, repetitive stuff that’s always going on all around us is for us to see that there’s no point! That's the only point....
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When we try to avoid mental pain (or fear) we create a vibration. In a way (in a very limited kind of a way) we can avoid whatever pain/fear is...
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The way we normally are is ‘being mechanical but not noticing that we are mechanical’. We don’t at all notice our mechanicalness and for this reason it takes us over....
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Aggression, when we throw ourselves into it, may seem to be getting us somewhere in the first phase, but it INEVITABLY rebounds on us in the second phase. Initially, I...
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Controlling - however straightforward the idea might seem – always contains a hidden self-contradiction. This paradox, this inherent self-contradiction remains hidden only because we are usually unsuccessful in our controlling,...
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Curiously enough, perhaps, we can say that mindfulness doesn’t come out of the mind, or out of anything the mind says or does. It doesn’t come out of any of...
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