I think therefore I am

The purpose of the brain is not for us to realise we are the agent of all our actions. This is the ultimate egotism. A sense of self was an evolutionary necessity so that external behaviours could be fed back for examination and improvement, for an advantage to be gained over bigger teeth or longer claws. The ego is merely a by-product, not the cause of thoughts, or ‘our’ actions. ‘I think, therefore I am’ is a sham. The truth is there is no independent ‘I’, just the thought that thinks ‘I am!’

Destiny

Destiny, does it exist? Clearly it does. But no-one can see it in advance. You have to live it to get there.

Power

There is no power to be gained from spiritual enlightenment.
For enlightenment is the giving up of all power,
or rather the recognition we never had any in the first place.

Learning

We all learn,
as life presents its great lesson,
the same lesson we all receive,
but reflected differently
according to the mirror of ego we hold on high.
But the learning is none of our doing,
nor is the mirror.
We are the watcher,
and could not stop it if we tried.

Failure

Ninety-nine percent of experiments fail,
this is the price of innovation.
If you are not regularly failing,
you are not growing.

Shadow of death

The shadow of death is cast by life itself

Realisation

What else could enlightenment be,
than the sudden and total realisation
I am not in control?

Consciousness

Consciousness does not contain a complete copy of the whole human organism. At most consciousness reflects only a muddy outline of the whole, or a tiny piece in detail. How then could consciousness ever be in control?

Work

The only work of life is this,
to re-convince one’s self of the oft forgotten fact:
I am not free,
nor shall I ever be so.

Clouds

I can no more control my thoughts,
than the clouds in the sky.
So how can I control what I do?