What is the everyday mind and why does it sometimes seem like our enemy? Why does it so often turn against us? The mind is what you use to create yourself!...
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Our goals, plans, purposes, theories and strategies are how we avoid the intrinsic uncertainty of life, which – as a general statement – is obvious enough! The whole point about...
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When we say that we can’t be in the world without thinking about being in the world at the same time then this is just another way of saying that...
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In the world which is created by our thoughts nothing else exists apart from pressure. Pressure is all there is in this two-dimensional mind-created world. There’s nothing but pressure in...
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The primary illusion, the illusion behind all other illusions, is that we see everything from the point of view of the self. This might not seem like such a big...
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Reality – from a pragmatic point of view – may be said to be divided into two distinct domains – the domain of structure and the domain of essence. ‘Structure’...
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Life falsifies our illusions. If we had to say what the ‘meaning’ of life was, this would be as good an answer as anything. This doesn’t mean that reality has...
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It is possible to get subsumed within an extraordinarily thin film of consciousness and yet not even to know that this has happened. It’s more than just possible - it...
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Freedom’s a funny thing because as soon as we get it we fall asleep. We fall asleep and start dreaming, and there’s no freedom in dreaming. We might think that...
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We can’t really take ownership of what we refer to as 'our' lives, and when we try to (when we think that we can take ownership) then we create suffering....
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What we don’t generally know about this world is that the things that we do have their own strange type of momentum, and that this momentum rules our lives, no...
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There are two sorts of world that we can live in, two sorts of world that are based on very different principles. The type of world that we are generally...
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