We aren't our thoughts and we aren't thinking. Who we are has nothing to do with thoughts and thinking so why do we have so much to do with them?...
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The big flaw with all our rationally-derived therapies is that they have all been put together by what we might call ‘adapted game players’. Being an adapted game player means...
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Non-equilibrium psychology is psychology without a baseline! A baseline is of course usually considered ‘a good thing’ because it allows us to make definite statements (i.e. it enables us to...
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The reason positive thinking isn't genuinely helpful is because 'peace of mind' or 'a sense of inner well-being' cannot come about as a result of what we think. We can’t...
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There is a very strange kind of thing that we do without knowing that we are doing it, and we do it all the time! What we are essentially doing...
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We are provided by society with the basic unit (or 'building block') of identity and the idea is that we should do our best to ‘add to it', or somehow...
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What ‘mental health' consists of is a complete mystery. It doesn't sound right to say this of course because we always think of mental health as being something that exists...
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Society facilitates us in ‘living as a continuity', which is the worst possible thing for us. It doesn't seem like ‘the worst possible thing for us' (it actually seems that...
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Our confidence – as the tightly-wrapped identities we experience ourselves to be – comes about as a result of never questioning anything. We never question anything at all, least of...
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When we go down the road of controlling (or regulating) ourselves we open the door to a nightmare of cosmic proportions, yet we don't see it. For whatever reason, our...
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There are only two things, ‘the tablecloth’ and there is ‘the wrinkle, and neither of them is really ‘a thing'. The wrinkle isn't a thing because it always cancels itself...
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Krishnamurti points out that 'the controller is always the past'. The past is always reaching out and taking trying to control the present and we are always colluding with this...
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