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 …
Tag: Psychology
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 …
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 …
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 …
You Can’t Even Conceive The Future
We love to DREAM about our brightest future! Tomorrow everything will be different! We love our dreams like we love ideals – we find tremendous security in theirs illusions. You can not experience your dreams, you can not actually feel them… you only feel the smug satisfaction of being you, undeniably, you, with your little …
Mind Finds Security In Discipline
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 …
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 …
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, …