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 …
Category: Spirituality
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
The True Meaning of KARMA
Perhaps you’ve heard the expression “karma comes around”. Karma is a concept present in various eastern religions . Supposedly good deeds contribute to “good karma”, whereas bad deeds lead to “bad karma” and suffering. Such belief certainly provides the sweetest consolation in the face of mistreatment or ingratitude! We basically get rewarded for our noble …
Fear; Away from Fear; Beyond Fear
I thought there were 3 standards of fear. 3 permutations. One is the pure presence of the FEAR ITSELF. It’s the fear unfiltered, fear present and real. It’s the fear which just is, and we have not addressed it or treated it in any way… we haven’t labeled it, we haven’t repressed it, we …
Anytime I Draw A Conclusion I Am Already Wrong
What are conclusions? Are conclusions not approximations? Are conclusions not simplifications? Conclusions are not the truth, obviously. Merely… it’s interpretation. An approximation, a simplification. We love conclusions. So much that we substitute them for the truth. (and love is blind, as they say) The truth doesn’t need your conclusions. It has nothing …
New Year Is The Last Year
New Year is the last year and the year before it and the year before it doesn’t matter Real change can only occur now it is beyond the “time” as we know it