Either we are lovers of the truth or we are fearers of the truth; very clearly it can only be one or the other! Either we are interested in finding...
Continue reading
Our concepts, our ways of seeing the world, control us. The cruder the concept, the more confined and manipulated we are by it. This is counter-intuitive because we imagine that...
Continue reading
Inverted peace is peace too, we just can’t see it. We just can’t see that it is peace. Really, there is only peace! But if there is only peace then...
Continue reading
The via erratum is when we fall into the trap of thinking that we need to validate our own being. This ‘starts us off on the wrong foot’ because the...
Continue reading
All our troubles start the moment we identify with a finite self. There’s really no way things can work out for us once we do this – no way at...
Continue reading
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...
Continue reading
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...
Continue reading
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?...
Continue reading
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....
Continue reading
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...
Continue reading
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....
Continue reading
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...
Continue reading