Why Your Ego Needs to Die Before You Die

People of the crowd define themselves by the feedback of the crowd. People who have overcome the necessity of defining themselves by such means are called individuals and prefer their own company already. Those people like themselves and have already gone through a sequence of events which happen to those in solitary. Generally, men and …

Billionaire

A billionaire can't be enlightened. Self-actualization is not the same as self-realization. Having all your needs met and goals achieved is not the same as having nothing and being happy, and having nothing to prove. If you need billions of poor people to be who you think you are (rich), consider if we weren't here …

What “I am”

What "I am" couldn't develop over time. It couldn't coalesce or become more or less over time. It couldn't learn or degenerate over time. It couldn't gain a name at a time, and then have an identity over time. What I am "is" rather than "was" or "will" be. What "I am" observes all of …

Being Alone, to Become ‘The One’

https://oxsec1.wixsite.com/individuation Only one (an individual) wins the prize!

Let It Be – It is what it is

While I was abstaining from the world, I noticed everything carried on in the world, but my world was unaffected by it. When I looked back at what was going on, and heard vague references to events that had occurred and people who had died, but I noticed I no longer made those events a …

Racism or Any ‘-ism’

The actors in this great drama seem to move like characters of a previously determined drama.

What Does it Take and What Happens

Buddha shows that his way took eight years of isolation, to come to the conclusion...that it wasn't the way. It may well be different for all of us, but Christ also showed "A way". His was forty days and forty nights of abstinence. From everything. Reducing uncooked vegetarian food intake gradually, by one third each …

Heaven and Hell – Aldous Huxley

“Milrepa, in his Himalayan cavern, and the anchorites of the Thebaid followed essentially the same procedure and got essentially the same results. A thousand pictures of the Temptation's of St. Anthony bear witness to the effectiveness of restricted diet and restricted environment. Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment …

Step Back

Step back from society Step back from protesting Step back from family Step back from college Step back from prejudice Step back from conflict Step back from work Step back from collective identity Step back from yourself Step back from thought There you are.

Society of Extroverts and Introverts

Society seems to have followed the two-ism paradigm, and loosely grouped itself as extroverts and Introverts.