Presence breeds awareness of the workings of one’s self This awareness is the beginning of detachment, detachment from one’s own self When there is no attachment to the self, there can be no separation When there is no separation, there is only communion Only in genuine, spontaneous communion can this society function. It is only …
Author: Janus
Every Kind Of Advancement Involves Discovery Of Both Possibilities And Limitations
Every Kind Of Advancement Involves Discovery Of Both Possibilities And Limitations The better you get at something the more LIMITS do you discover. Every kind of advancement, in any fields, involves discovery of both possibilities and limitations. Advancement in a particular area is nothing else but developing understanding. Understanding of a certain system. System …
Since When Not-Knowing Implies Knowing?
We go through this world and there’s the little that we do know, and a whole lot that we don’t. There’s this saying, “Knowledge is power”, indeed it is, and we do crave power. It’s is all too easy to go astray in our quest for power we want more power more knowledge …
Negligence Will Kill You
Negligence is terrible. Negligence is obviously ineffective. This much is self-evident. You don’t get the things done, and you don’t get the things done well, if you neglect them. If you are doing something — either put DUE effort into it, or put NO effort. It is obvious yet we are almost never …
Strength Only Exists With Concurring Resistance
There is no strength without resistance. Obviously there isn’t! Strength can only exist in relation to something. You can’t just be strong. You can only be strong in relation to something. In relation to the doing of something, or in relation of persisting in certain way. This simple definition sheds much light (all the light) …
Self-Awareness is Amusing
Self-Awareness is amusing. Self-inquiry, and the corresponding self-knowledge, put to rest the burden of (over) seriousness. There is much joviality in an intelligent comprehension (of anything). There is this freeing detachment, with which the quality of lightheartedness is brought to life. Humour springs out when seriousness and stress are replaced with insight and comprehension. …
It’s What You Don’t Want, Not What You Want
Ah, it’s a curious little feature of this LIFE, of this LIFETIME it is so f i n i t e The time of our life is scarce and the natural consequence of doing what we DON’T WANT is that it subtracts from the little time we have for doing what we DO WANT. …
To Respect is to Not Respect
If you need a reason to respect yourself — you don’t respect yourself. If there is a condition under which you respect yourself — you don’t respect yourself. If you create a condition under which you respect yourself, you are creating a condition under which you don’t respect yourself. If you create a condition under …
Better to Fuck Up then To Stress
Stress will kill you. It’s also pretty fucking stupid. And it doesn’t feel good. Being care—free is the state to be. Being care—free is the only meaningful approach in the goal—less, meaning—less life. All else is an overcompensation of the self-obsessed self. Stressor is but a call to action. Stress is when we give …
If There Is No Self Then How Can There Be Guilt?
If there is no self how can there be guilt? Whose guilty then? There can be pain without the experiencing, but how can there be guilt? Guilt is different to pain in that it’s not merely a sensation, but it is this whole mental construct. Guilt comprises of the memory of the self, memory …