To cure your problems – forget them. Forget your inadequacy. Forget your failures. Forget your bad experiences. Forget the pain. It’s all gone when you forget them. The venerated “PRESENCE”, the mindfulness — is exactly that – forgetfulness. The venerated “no-self” – it is exactly that – forgetfulness. Forget the past and you are …
Tag: Self
Self-Improvement Is Mental Masturbation
Self-improvement is mental masturbation. You don’t really care about improving. You just want to feel good about yourself. “Motivation” is about feeling good about yourself. “Inspiration” is about feeling good about yourself. “Hustle” is about feeling good about yourself. Even “PLANS” are about feeling good about yourself. Oh and obviously resolutions are about …
What You Think You Want
There is only what you DO. You only do what you WANT. If you don’t want someting you don’t do it. If you don’t do something that is because you don’t want it. The problem of not doing something that you want is merely you not really wanting it. The problem of wanting something, …
You Want To Be Angry
There is anger which is beyond the ordinary annoyance. There is anger which goes far deeper then mere temporary frustration. There is anger which is not merely temporary, which is not quickly-passing, which is not easily provoked nor easily dispelled. There is anger which roots all the way down to the very SELF, where it …
Identification Is Ignorance
Identification is ignorance you don’t know yourself hence you identify with something else you are not your country not your football team not your friends not your job not a number it’s crazy to think you are a dog is a dog and a washing machine is a washing machine you don’t think …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Modesty Is An Ideal Created By Immodest People
Who would you even talk about modesty? What happens with the modesty when you crate an ideal out of it, when you make a virtue out of it? When modesty is a virtue, an end, a goal, does it not simply become a prideful mean of self-expansion? All this talk about modesty, all …