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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
No matter what, we can never successfully seek the state of disequilibrium; our very seeking precludes it. Disequilibrium is there, for sure, but – from the purposeful point of view...
Empty space (or emptiness) has a very neat trick that it can play and that is to appear solid, or substantial. It does this even though there is nothing solid...
If the Enigma which lies at the heart of the universe is the only thing that is real then this means that this must be the source of all ‘wholesomeness',...