If there’s no solution, is there a problem…?
What is the self? It is yourself and there is no excuse whatever. So you are absolutely in the frying pan.
Carl Jung
Just a few of the reasons I love my work so much are that it has nothing to do with business. Or money, or cash flow, or profits, or turnover, or any kind of financial imperative, or products, or selling, or advertising, or marketing, or promoting, or customers, or spreadsheets, or ROIs, or presentations, or projects, or computers, or offices, or meetings, or hierarchies… You get the idea.
When people say ‘what are the chances of that happening?’ I would say exactly the same as those which led all of us to find ourselves alive, here and now – infinite and incalculable in size. And yet here we are. We take our existence for granted and yet the fact that we, or anything, exists at all is simply beyond our primate ability to comprehend. And thus religion and science and the desire to calculate odds…
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be.
Meister Eckhart
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
Tilopa
Your experience, however it is manifesting, is always the complete, whole aliveness of being you imagine you are seeking.
If you find yourself looking or seeking something else, something different, something more – what is it that you think you’ll find, attain or gain?
This is my secret. I don't mind what happens.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
There’s no explaining what is obvious.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
The more closely one observes anything at all the more clear and obvious the indivisibility and impermanence of everything.
The presence or not of suffering is beside the larger point that there is anything to experience at all.
The very name – Large Language Model (LLM), the technology that powers AI, reveals something interesting about what AI is and isn’t.
After testing a number of different AI products with prompts about the nature of reality, consciousness and mind, what I am mostly struck by is their excruciatingly exquisite articulacy. Their crystal clear clarity in expressing concepts with language is somehow too good, certainly inhumanly flawless. There may or may not be flaws and faults in the relative facts or opinions expressed yet what is undeniable is the immaculate rendering of language itself. Hardly surprising since language machines is essentially what they are.
Interesting to consider that despite manipulating language so effectively and efficiently AI cannot experience what it is communicating. There is no understanding. While our expression emerges from our experience, AI’s output is regurgitation, albeit a massively sophisticated repurposing of existing language, not an expression of the raw actuality of being.
How you behave when no one is looking tells you everything you need to know about yourself.
It is not only possible but hardly uncommon to become lost in ideas, concepts and language and dwell entirely in that world.
This from an AI:
…reality is perhaps both fully complete in each moment and yet endlessly generative…
Claude
I can’t argue with that.
Feeling infinite has nothing to do with believing you are immortal and can do anything but everything to do with recognising that your ordinary lived experience has no beginning or end and that what you actually are is everything that is happening.
There is no one way - The Way. There is only your way and only you can find it.