This is a short excerpt from my book, “The Myth of Doing.” In addition to the fact that we have a survival instinct that makes us want to protect ourself from danger, I purport that the illusion that there is a part of us that can act freely in our favor (a soul or a […]
Category: Psychology
How Can It Be?
How can it be that this activity I am physically engaged in, sitting on the couch writing in my notebook, is the only thing I am supposed to be doing right now? That feels so wrong. What about all the other things I feel like I’m supposed to be attending to? Where would those actions […]
Time, Action and the Illusion of Effort
In my work I talk a lot about the clock, and the fact that it moves by itself, by virtue of the fact that our planet naturally rotates around itself and the sun, which is how we track time. If we stare at the clock, or our watch, we can have proof of this by […]
“Next”
We are concerned with what is coming next, what someone will do next, what will happen to us next. It appears to our mind that this is something we need to figure out. Is it true that we need to figure it out? No. Before we can even blink, next is already here, next is […]
Don’t Worship Your Ideas
If you want to worship something, worship the truth. What do I mean by the truth? I mean the things you do, not think about doing. The things we do are the only things we are supposed to do, as hard as that is to believe. How can we know this is true? Because anything […]
This
Why this? It’s all there is. This is such a basic realization. Meanwhile, we spend our life negating it, doubting it, looking elsewhere. I have no choice but to be where my body is. I watch. Touch your face to see that you are here. You can see your face with your eyes, parts of […]
There Is No Such Thing as Inaction
(An excerpt from my book, Body Over Mind: a mindful reality check) Though in real time we are always engaged in a continual flow of physical activity, we mentally experience ourself to be moving in and out of action. We perceive our behavior to have a stop, start quality, as implied in the thought pattern, “I […]
Accepting Real Time
Accepting reality means accepting real time. Whatever we do only happens in real time. We are a physical body that moves all day long. We call these movements activities. We move in relation to other physical entities. We interact physically with the ground we stand on, the furniture we sit and lie down on, the […]
Being Is Action
What do I mean when I say being is action? I mean that the state of existing in time and space automatically indicates that we are in some state of activity. Some examples of activity would be: lying down, reading a book, typing on the computer, standing in the living room, eating a banana, talking […]
The Guessing Mind
The mind guesses. What else could it do? The future, even 3 minutes from now, has not arrived yet for any human being to know anything that will happen. The only tool we have to speculate with regarding our future is our thinking mind. No matter what we call it, whether it is a sense […]
Jill Eng 