Mind is so terrified of dying…. Death is the annihilation of the mind. Mind does not want it’s annihilation. Mind wants to perpetuate itself. All being seems to be terrified of ceasing to exist, until it transcends it’s own being, until it transcends it’s illusionary separation from the entirety of being. Mind is utterly terrified …
Category: Lifestyle
The Meaning Of Life
We all desperately want to believe there is more to this life then our everyday struggles. We all cherish our little inner voice, our little narrative, for it makes us feel significant, it literally makes “US” real, this entire process of the self. And yet, what is this voice? How real is that noise of …
It’s Far Easier Evaluating Those Behind Us Down The Road, Then It Is Those Before Us
Progressing in a particular field, one finds himself in a relation with other participants of the game. Some are behind us. Some are before us. Such hierarchy concerns many fields of human endeavours. Whenever competence is discernible and various players can be differentiated from the others – a natural hierarchy results. One curious observation …
Freedom in Adversity
There’s a certain opportunity in adversity. I am not saying it as a consolation, though. There is always an opportunity for self-inquiry, in every stage of our life, and there’s a certain opportunity in adversity – it’s the opportunity of GRASPING FREEDOM. Our lives go in certain patterns and there are some turns and …
Consciousness Is The Real Discipline
Ambitious that we are, men, we find all ways to ABUSE ourselves, all in order to get bigger, more powerful, more something. Call it discipline. Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a system of governance. (Wikipedia) Sounds exactly like something you would …
Kernel Of a Problem
The process of worrying is created by your mind, which trades your sanity for the illusion of control (and a minute trace of comfort). Worrying doesn’t ever solve the problem, but it makes you feel useful. Quite like work does, despite you being unproductive and uncreative. If you truly direct your attention to the …
The Slavemaster
We come into this world and are immediately inundated by the great weight of commitments, obligations, responsibilities, goals, ambitions… We go to school so that it kills our creativity and then we go to college so that we can slave for others. We get paid a lot or a little but we do submit. The …
Glimmer Of Meaning Is Far More Compelling Then Either Greed Or Need Is
We are nothing but hopeless drunks. Our drug – the MEANING. We do everything for the MEANING. Any meaning. We just want something, anything, to believe in. We do everything for any meaning. We might be fooled to believe that our motivations really are prosaic – that we are just a GREEDY bunch, …
“Hard Work” Is When The Passion Is NOT
Most of us know nothing of the passion. We talk all day about it and it is exactly what it is — just TALK. We never live our passion, we never live passionately. When there is ACTION then there’s nothing to talk about, nothing to think about – just ACTION. We never live our passion …
Interpersonal Relations Heuristics
Interpersonal Relations Heuristics: 1) Be positive 2) Be genuine 3) Give value then 4) Treat everyone the same but keep ONLY the FEW of your CHOOSING Be positive — unless you are positive you are negative. When you are negative you make others negative. It doesn’t matter who you are and what you …