Exploratory ModeOne definition of mental health could be to say that what is healthy (what leads to our psychological well-being) is when there is a…Aug 2, 202150Aug 2, 202150
Not Clever To Be CleverWe wear out the shoe of samsara by walking on it, says Chogyam Trungpa. This is a very radical statement and completely contrary to…Jul 31, 2021Jul 31, 2021
Subtler Than ThoughtWhen we’re ‘thinking all the time’ this has the effect of making us fundamentally insincere — it makes us insincere with other people and…Jul 9, 2021Jul 9, 2021
Detachment and IntimacyOddly, ‘detachment’ and ‘intimacy’ turn out to be the very same thing. We wouldn’t normally think that this could be the case but it is…Jun 28, 2021Jun 28, 2021
Purposefulness and SpontaneityThere are two modes in which we human beings can exist, so to speak — one being the spontaneous mode and the other the purposeful one…Jun 26, 202135Jun 26, 202135
The Piece We Just Don’t GetThere is ‘a piece’ that we never seem to get and this causes a particularly vicious problem that we are quite blind to. The problem is that…Jun 21, 2021Jun 21, 2021
Dreamers And DoersHumanity is divided into ‘the dreamers’ and ‘the doers’, or — at least — that’s what we love to say in the West. We’re nailing our colours…Jun 5, 2021Jun 5, 2021
The world that we are in is the world in which we lose ourselves.The magnetic pull of forgetting is overwhelming, irresistible; we lose ourselves without ever noticing it happen. As newborn babies we…Jun 1, 2021Jun 1, 2021
The DreamscapeI was talking away to myself, trying to cheer myself up. ‘Now that’s not so bad is it?’ I said, ‘that’s not so bad, that’s not so bad’ at…May 27, 2021May 27, 2021
Not Mentioning The TravestyOne definition of mental health could be to say that it is when there is a movement away from the self, away from who we think we are. This…May 23, 2021May 23, 2021
Psychology And The TaoConsciousness isn’t a limited kind of thing. It isn’t actually any kind of thing at all because all things are limited. That’s what it…May 16, 2021May 16, 2021
Too Much SelfWhat we succeed at can’t add anything to who we are, and what we fail at can’t take anything away. This said, why is it that we feel so…May 2, 2021May 2, 2021
Society Is An Equilibrium StateShakespeare says ‘Journeys end in lovers meeting,’ — two individuals become one unit and the individuals that were are now gone. We can…May 2, 2021May 2, 2021
Two Views of Mental HealthThere exist two diametrically opposed (and therefore incompatible) views with regard to what mental health is or is not and which view we…Apr 19, 2021Apr 19, 2021
Surfing IllusionThe self operates by asserting the definite, by asserting the known. This constitutes the entirety of its ‘modus operandi’. Just to say…Apr 17, 2021Apr 17, 2021
Celebrating The Hollow IdentityThis is a very ‘serious’ game too because if we get caught out not knowing what we are doing when we are trying very hard to act as if we…Apr 11, 2021Apr 11, 2021
