Direct Truth - Uncompromising, Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life
Yet when you are called stupid, it makes you angry. Because something within you entertains the possibility that you might, in fact, be. Then something else within you grows irritated by the idea that you might be. This internal conflict manifests itself as anger.
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When one wish is granted, you will beg for another. When it is not, you will either wait in hope, or curse out of spite. Dependency will rob you of your freedom.
Rely upon yourself for all the needs that arise within you.
If a human life is devoted to something, one tends to lose oneself in it. As one loses oneself in it, the more blissful one becomes.
What is the best way to raise a child? To become firmly established in the knowledge that he does not belong to you.
The Truth is that attachment is the greatest bondage in the life of man. The problem that you are experiencing is not that you do not know how to be unattached. The problem is that you do not realize the consequences of attachment.
Attachment gives birth to hope and need. If you are attached to them, you will need them to do certain things, achieve certain things, be a certain way, and behave toward you in a certain way. When they do not, it will cause you pain. When you experience pain, you will behave toward them in a way that pain compels you to behave. And they will behave toward you in a way that their need for freedom compels them to behave. And this will continue for the rest of your lives.
Responsibility is a societal creation. No one is truly responsible for another. You do not owe your children anything. They do not owe you anything. If you wish to do, then do. If they wish to do, they may also do. That which comes from the heart is.
That which comes from the idea of responsibility is forced, artificial, and often produces resentment and the expectation for reciprocation.
Because wrong and right are not sufficiently powerful motivations.
That anger is not as reactionary as you think it to be. It is a weapon that you enjoy using in order to protect your ego and to bolster it.
From morning until night, a human seeks nothing other than pleasure. In the smallest thing. And the largest thing. All addictions stem from this one characteristic of mind.
In order to have peace in a relationship, there must be freedom.
It is compromise that produces conflict.
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Two individuals who need each other will only have conflict. They can never have a relationship.
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A relationship of peace is a relationship that is more parallel than perpendicular. It is two individuals that move side by side. Rather than two individuals that intersect. A maintenance of individuality and freedom results in the prevalence of peace.
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Not if it was done by way of prescription. If a desire for the Truth is in someone’s bones, then he will not stop until he finds it. Not because he should. But because he has no choice.
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Whether it be meditativeness or meditation, it must be an effect rather than a goal. That which one pursues as a goal never arrives. Any prescription that one pursues, he becomes imprisoned to.
Why pursue scraps, when the ultimate heights are available to you?
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It is far more fruitful to evaluate the desires for achievement, than it is to force discipline. If one’s desire for achievement is pure, he will be sufficiently motivated to do all that needs to be done in order to achieve. If it is not, he will play clever and ineffective games such as discipline.
It is far more fruitful to evaluate the desires for achievement, than it is to force discipline. If one’s desire for achievement is pure, he will be sufficiently motivated to do all that needs to be done in order to achieve. If it is not, he will play clever and ineffective games such as discipline.
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But everyone in the world is looking for happiness. A: Yes. Q: They’re all misguided? A: Yes. Q: Then what should a person seek? A: There is no should. Q: What would it benefit a person to seek? A: Freedom from misery. Freedom from the need for happiness.
Attempting to “live” a life is like trying to board a train that is moving at 80 miles per hour. What would happen if you tried this? You would jump toward it trying to catch hold, then fall and roll down the side of the hill. You would become bruised and battered trying to board this train. And you would spend the whole of your time on earth following various methodologies to board the train. Instead of trying to “live” a life, one must become life itself.
Religion, no. Religiousness, yes. The object of devotion is largely irrelevant. So long as it provides man with the intoxication of losing himself. St. Francis of Assisi devoted his life to god. As did Meera. They lived in complete freedom. I did not say pray. I did not say worship. I did not say preach. I did not say follow. I did not say scriptures. I did not say prescriptions. But to devote the whole of oneself to god or to any other endeavor takes one away from oneself. And this is the door to freedom. The door to becoming life itself.
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That isn’t how I mean it at all. When I say ‘want,’ I am not speaking of preference or passing desire. I am speaking of a life-and-death sort of want.
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I cannot tell you the method. For there is no method. Each human being is his own unique universe. But the approach and the philosophy centers around discovering the Truth about what gets one to his vision. Rather than myths such as “hard work,” “pain vs gain,” and “striving.
The reason that it supposedly takes “10,000 hours” and decades to become what one wishes to become is because one uses a bicycle rather than a locomotive. If you do not know the Truth, you must take the long and arduous road. But the Truth always takes a fraction of the time and provides a far greater result. For even the best coaches and institutions of society know only of becoming a “practitioner.” They have no concept of becoming a Master. It is for this reason that there is parity in all domains
In every domain, performance waxes and wanes. In every domain, one is taught to compete. In every domain, one day a person “has it” and the next day he “doesn’t have it.” One day he is “in the zone” and an hour later, he “falls out of the zone.” And he is “in the zone” only a fraction of his entire career. These are the consequences of not knowing the Truth.
One must not be interested in how to “improve” performance. One must be genuinely interested in where it lives, how it moves, and what causes it to emerge. This allows one to become dominant in his field. It allows him to own his performance. It allows him to become a
One must not be interested in how to “improve” performance. One must be genuinely interested in where it lives, how it moves, and what causes it to emerge. This allows one to become dominant in his field. It allows him to own his performance. It allows him to become a Master
If one seeks to become the master of the mind, one must begin by exploring intensely the details of the mind’s creation. That is, this “you” that it has created. Explore it as an innocent observer. Explore it as the one who is not the “you.
This will allow the one who is sincere in his exploration to see the true nature of himself. This will allow him to see that he is not the person he has believed himself to be. This is the beginning of true freedom. This is the beginning of making the mind a slave. And a glorious tool created for the benefit of man
Where there is no desire or expectation, there can be no anger
Fear is the natural consequence of man not knowing himself
If a man achieved a rock bottom steady state with himself. If he had a relationship with, or an understanding of, himself that was unshakeable. He would become immune to fear
What is right and wrong? A: A societal fabrication
Time comes into existence when man begins to think
The state of No-Mind is a state of No-Self. When on arrives at this state, his talents become free from all interference. They become uninhibited. He begins to commune
happiness cannot satisfy any human being
The presence of rain gave birth to the invention of an umbrella. In the same way, the presence of misery gave birth to the idea of happiness. No human being seeks happiness. What he seeks is an escape from misery
The truest humanitarian will be the human who becomes the world’s ultimate citizen. The one who becomes a shining beacon of possibility. A living demonstration of what a human being can truly become