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Generosity to Ourselves
We begin with generosity to ourselves. Generosity is forgiving. Forgiving is powerful generosity, but it’s also in a sense greed. Because when you allow yourself to see, you realize that whatever you are forgiving isn’t something “personal”. You won’t forgive the person for being who they are, and where they are. You realize it wasn’t…
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Being Ourselves
I find nothing more interesting than sincerity, and I tend to ignore anything other than that, because sincerity requires no form of embellishment. I have a guest who reads something into everything I say. Suspecting you of deceit, they deceive themselves, and the shrewd person who won’t be tricked is always tricked. The person who…
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We Present Ourselves
You think normally that you experience events, but there is no such thing as an event. By definition, we use the word event to describe actions that occur in an almost mechanistic sense. Saying the word event is almost the same as saying the word coincidence yet both words are fundamentally meaningless. What exactly do…
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Ourselves and Our Experience
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Ourselves Projected onto the World
So yes, we cannot control our behaviour, but we can control our perceptions. What does this mean really? Well, let’s look at perception. Our first and baseline perception is peace versus disturbance. Everything is ok, or something is wrong, and if something is wrong, then can we usually focus on anything else? Not too easily.…
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First Promise to Ourselves
You don’t have one word, you have two. Most people wind up “speaking with a forked tongue.” Animals detect this, very young children detect this, autistic individuals detect this. Yes, when I was young I found so many adults to be off-putting. For all the sophistication and control, for all the speed and clarity exhibited…