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 …
Category: Spirituality
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 …
Is The mind Egoic?
I wondered if mind’s liking for good challenge had egoic root. I wondered if it was ego proving itself and bolstering, in the face of yet another challenge. Ego is THE MIND but the mind is more then just the ego. The mind is, this wonderful tool, it is and it works, this mesmerising miracle …
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, …
I Noticed I Only Ever Long Into The Future When That Is Immediate Problem Tormenting Me In the Now
I noticed I only ever long into the future when there is immediate problem tormenting me in the NOW. I never really dream about getting hold of X amount of money or putting my hands on someone or something when I am lost in the boundless vastness of the freedom. Obviously the former is nothing …
Your Suffering Is The World’s Suffering
There is no-self. No self – in the sense of separation from the wholeness. There is only part of the self. I.e. there is no you, but you are but a PART of the REAL SELF – the ENTIRETY OF LIFE. As a part of something larger, you are that thing. You are that …
You Can’t Seek Freedom Ambitiously
Why all this ambition? You want to be something. And you want something for yourself. Hence you go on achieving and struggling and grappling. Surely, all this effort, all this commitment, all those obligations, surely this all is very restricting, very confining. You can’t realise all your many fixed goals without adhering to them, …
Should And Could
Whatever you should do — enslaves you. Whatever you could do — liberates you. It sounds almost too cliche yet living this simple mantra is entirely different then understanding it. Once we were simply alive and there was no context to the living itself — just pure living. Once, there was no “should” …