From the Western tradition of rational philosophy, pondering the nature of existence seems like a perfectly valid thing to do! To analyze reality is seen as being an entirely legitimate...
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The only thing that really matters is escaping from the prison of the self. How could anything else matter? Yet this also happens to be the one thing we never...
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‘Maybe I’m nothing but a shadow on the wall’ sings David Thomas in Heart of Darkness, echoing (after a fashion) Plato’s words from some two thousand years earlier. This of...
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If who we are can neither be improved nor disimproved, then what is all this activity all about? What is all this goal-orientated effort about, this perpetual yearning and striving?...
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As soon as we imagine that this self (this self that I think I am) can do something volitional, that it can actually ‘choose’ or ‘decide’, then samsara is born....
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When we play at being the self (when we run the 'inadvertent experiment' of being the self) we are taking on a position or stance that is inherently insecure. To...
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When we manipulate the environment so as to obtain a specific outcome (which is of course what all manipulation is about!) then this equals ‘having no sense of humour’. It...
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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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Whenever we enter the designed world, which is the presented world, the world we are supposed to see, then we straightaway cease to exist! If ever there was a ‘big...
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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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According to Adi Shankara, when we perceive the Atman then the world as we know it – the illusory world of attractive and repellent appearances – immediately ceases to exist....
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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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