Everything that happens is just what happens – no one does it, no one makes it happen. There's no real 'doer' whose responsibility it is to 'get it right'. Causality...
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When we are under pressure to change things within the terms of a particular frame of reference then – whether we are successful in our task or not – this...
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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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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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The essential problem that we are constantly trying to solve with our thinking (or almost all of the time) is the ‘problem’ of our unreality. This is the problem that...
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There are two types of content consciousness can have – one is rational and the other is mythological. In the particular type of a culture we live in ‘rational content’...
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We create ugly things and then – as a second step, so to speak – we very carefully refrain from paying any attention to what we have created. We 'withdraw...
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The extrinsic reality is made up entirely of pressure – that’s all it is, just pressure, nothing else. Extrinsic reality is pure pressure and nothing more. This pressure comes in...
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"What is the rule that tells us how to be?" is the same as asking what the method is for being, what the correct procedure or protocol is for being....
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By commentating on reality, we create the isolated ego-observer. What advantage then, we might ask, is there in doing this? What do we gain by the exercise? The answer here...
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