Giving up is better then not giving up. To give up is to either achieve nothing – or achieve something which is actually authentic. To not give up, to persevere – is to achieve everything which is inauthentic. If it’s authentic then it doesn’t involve discipline. If you must discipline yourself …
Tag: Self
Beyond Like and Dislike
What is dislike? Is dislike the opposite of like? Isn’t like and dislike just labels? Isn’t like and dislike a spectrum? You like eating sandwiches but you prefer pizza. You don’t like eating tomatoes but you don’t like starving either. It’s all relative. “Like” and “dislike” serve your description of the reality. …
Gratitude Cures Ambition
Gratitude cures ambition. Why would you cure ambition? Would you not want to achieve something? You precisely don’t want. You want nothing. You neither want nor don’t want success. There is no attachment. No desire. This is the beginning of freedom. I view ambition as this hunger. Why be hungry? Why …
The Cure Is The Forgetfulness
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 …
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 …