WE DEFAULT to ‘wrong’ thinking—meaning narrow, limited, short-sighted thinking—partly out of habit and partly because we have never been taught to think in a broader, more flexible, more expansive way. We also resort to wrong thinking because we are usually…
QUESTION: Would you say that what we call ‘will power’ is derived from essence? I'm wondering about the effort required by a person to do a thing despite extreme mechanical resistance to doing that thing and if this same effort…
A MAIN TENET of the fourth way system is that specific obstacles keep consciousness ‘asleep’. These obstacles are delineated as imagination, identification, inner-considering, lying, unnecessary talk, and the external expression of unpleasant or negative emotions. Eastern (non-dual) teachings explain a…
Ouspensky said that consciousness and identification are opposite sides of the same coin. Did he mean we have to reverse identification? He meant that when awareness is unconscious, it is on the verge of becoming identified. And conversely, when awareness…