Everyone can do nothing about it

To cultivate non-attachment is a Buddhist concept or goal. But how to do it? Well, how else but by detaching from what one is attached to? Both the positive and negative attachments. Things one likes and dislikes. What does that mean? It means to stop caring. To sever all bonds. To become stone cold and… Continue reading Non-attachment

Enlightenment is a human realizing that humans don’t ‘really’ exist. That sentence seems to make little sense but that’s what we’re talking about here. So obviously it’s a bit convoluted and hard to understand, let alone put into words. Imagine having to convey this idea to someone who believes themselves to be human, without sounding… Continue reading A bit of a contradiction

Look at the subject of your discontent, whatever it may be. Then imagine it gone out of your life and look at what remains. Would things be better without it? Imagine yourself perfectly happy. Always. Would your life be better? It’s tempting to think it would be. But I imagine it’s like eating nothing but… Continue reading Discontent

Your discontent is the engine that drives you. Be grateful for it. Nurture it?

Where do you know anything, experience everything? Consciousness. There is nowhere else for anything to be known or experienced. And that’s not unique to you or us. That goes for anything known or experienced by any ‘entity’: only in consciousness can ‘they’ ever experience anything. Imagine being Neo from the Matrix. You wake up in… Continue reading Where, oh where?

It’s all nonsense. Nothing is true, with exactly one exception. Nothing exists, except consciousness. Everything else is made up, stories applied to pattern. I know this. I am very sure of it, because I looked, did the work and found this to be the inescapable and only conclusion. And yet… Some old patterns still persist.… Continue reading Perspectives

We look at pattern through concepts. We chop it up with definitions, with stories, this is one thing and that another. And then we observe and capture in math what we see. And we can predict shit. We know that if we do certain things certain outcomes will follow. Maybe. There is always some uncertainty.… Continue reading Another way

Don’t believe something that you do believe. Are you sitting on something? Say a chair? Stop believing it’s a chair. Can you? Why not? If you have free will… Use it, to not believe it’s a chair. Go ahead… Take all the time you need. So, why can’t you? Is it really a chair though?… Continue reading Belief

Models and concepts are made up. At different levels. They are never true. They are real in as much as we believe them, that’s what makes them real. Never true. Problems arise when we try to find coherence between models and levels. How does life emerge from dead matter? How does consciousness emerge from brain… Continue reading Forget about universality

Technical note – I bought and downloaded “ZoomSounds – WordPress Wave Audio Player” but can’t get the comments working so I created a transcription with MS Word and just annotated the transcription. I made some effort to clean up the transcription but some errors may still remain. This is episode 267 of the excellent podcast… Continue reading The Thickness of Reality