The simplest ‘test’, the simplest ‘rule of thumb’, is to say that whatever ISN’T the system is consciousness. This is like the spinning totem in Inception - it will tell...
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There is a single (and most singular) principle that lies behind both the physical world and the world of our thoughts, and this principle is to be found neither in...
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The operation of entropy means that we are provided with a false version of ourselves, a ‘version’ which is characterized by a base-level of inescapable pain or suffering. If we...
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The story is that Shiva destroys the fifth head of Brahma. According to Devdutt Pattanaik, Brahma’s fifth head is ‘his own imaginary understanding of who he is’. The fifth head,...
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Samsara is a rubbish house. It’s a house full of rubbish – terribly stale rubbish, infinitely sterile rubbish… Could there be any spectacle more terrible than the sterility of samsara? Even...
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Games are our defence against Eternity. They are our only defence against Eternity. Eternity is a pretty hard thing to run away from (where can you go from Eternity, after...
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The system operates by converting us into unreal versions of ourselves. This is easy enough to say, but at the same time extraordinarily difficult to understand. People as we know...
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Negative freedom is the freedom not to be free. Or as we could also say, negative freedom is the freedom that we have to prop up the illusion of the...
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When we are playing ‘the game’ we are rewarded for removing ourselves from reality. This is essentially how the game works – the more unreal we become, the greater the...
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Anatta does not think. Only the conditioned self thinks, only the ‘me’ thinks. The ‘me’ has to think! The conditioned self has to think because that is how it maintains...
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Via the one-way process of decomplexification (which is where the open situation is collapsed into a closed one without any acknowledgment being made of the fact) freedom (which is an...
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Flatland is where we run to when we’re trying to run away from space. Flatland is obviously an escape from space – it’s obviously an escape from space because there’s...
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