Sankalpa

What is the purpose with your meditation practice?

What are you trying to achieve?

What expectations do you have?

Which delusions are driving you?

Do you want to become enlightened and awesome?

Do you want to merge with the cosmic soul?

Do you want to become more self confident and more successful?

Do you want to lose weight?

Do you want to improve yourself in some way?
Do you need a group affiliation?

What are you looking for?

What if it is a misunderstanding that motivates you.

What if you've been misled by spaced out gurus and life coaches.

To search for truths

Many of those who start searching will not find any opals.

Many of those who devote their lives to dig themselves deeper and deeper

into the earth, will come back empty-handed.

How would you handle a failure like this?

What would you tell your old friends and family?

Would you lie and say that you really did find some beautiful opals

but that you sold them, and then you lost all the money,

or, would you prefer to be honest

and explain that you have wasted many, many years of your life

in this stupid search after illusions?

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Important discoveries

The earth is not flat.

The earth is not at the center of the universe.

It is just a boulder among billions of other boulders.

A human being is just an animal among all the other animals.

God is just a fantasy figure.

There are no trolls, no ghosts and no fairies.

Life has no purpose, if you don't invent one.

The evolution has no direction and no goal.

Awakening

It is very painful to realize

that one has been living for so many years

in lies and self-deception.

Alcoholics, drug addicts and neurotics are ruining their lives

and the lives of their families

and they are not even aware of it.

They can't see that their drinking habits

or neurotic selfishness creates serious problems.

Of course they can't see.

Of course you don't want to see that what you're doing is awful.

An alcoholic can come up with the most fantastic justifications
for his or her inordinate drinking.

Similarly, a neurotic person can construct

absolutely watertight explanations and reasons

for his or her behavior.

Hitler blamed himself, in the Berlin bunker,

for having been too soft with the German people.

This was his biggest mistake in life.

The thinking mind has an enormous power.

It is impossible to awaken people from alcoholism and neurotic delusions.

The protective walls are impenetrable.

Not until the poor con artist finally realizes, that he or she has a problem

can friends, family members or therapists be of any help.

The insight that you have a problem is the starting point.

This is awakening.

This is kensho.

Now you have to get out of bed.

Now you can to begin to do, what you have to do.

Take it easy. Don't rush.

It will take a long time to learn how to accept

a life without delusion.

Surrender to madness

You are constantly bombarded with nonsense, silliness and crap.

Wonderful housewives with wonderful detergents;

how to become skinny, how to become gorgeous and how to get rich.

Endless idiocy, in the subway ads, in newspapers, in radio,

in your iPhone, in the computer games, on television ...
Wherever you turn your attention, you will discover something idiotic.

You can't hide; you can't escape.

You can't even hear your own thoughts.

You have lost your soul, long, long ago.

If you, for some strange reason, would get access to your true self,

then you would have no use for it.

A stupid ego is much more useful here in this world.

Bell jars

You're living in a fantasy world.

We're all living in fantasy worlds.

We're all living in bubbles.

You live in your world and I live in mine.

What is the world like, really?

How are we to live?
What do you think?

Some go to Church, others go to mosques.

Some go to gay clubs, others go to soccer matches.

Some like Robin Hood, others prefer the sheriff.

Psychotics, neurotics and careerists,

religious or political fanatics,

indifferent sleepwalkers,

drug addicts, bimbos and body builders...

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Resistance in meditation practice

It is unpleasant to get to know oneself.

We don't want to get to know the unpleasant parts of ourselves.

This is perfectly understandable.

We don't want to discover that we are greedy or nasty.

We don't want to discover that we are disgusting or meddlesome.

We don't want to discover that we are miserable.

We want to appear as optimistic, relaxed and sensible,

both to ourselves and to others.

Resistance to meditation practice

is often because we don't want to encounter

the unpleasant parts of our being.

Meditation is not about peace and harmony;

it is not about merging with the cosmic soul.

Such ideas are just bullshit.

Meditation is a method to uncover inner bullshit.