nofreewill – Jill Eng

August 21, 2022jilleng

Learning How to Accept Life

In this Video Q&A, I address Sam’s question about learning how to accept life through the lens of this work, Mindful Reality. If you are interested in personalized recordings and/or would like to view Q&A episodes before this, please click HERE. And finally, although these are presented as episodes, there is no connection between them, so it does […]

February 3, 2020February 15, 2020jilleng

All Ideas Are Only Thoughts

Whether it be hope of an enduring democracy, a relationship we believed would last, or what we thought we should eat for lunch, all ideas are always only thoughts in our mind. The only real events that will or should ever occur, by any body, are those that physically do in real time. The only […]

September 23, 2016March 3, 2018jilleng

Entry #4: Options

I think we suffer from a belief in options, options of how we could act in any given moment (present, past or future). I use the word “this” (which is kind of trendy these days but unrelated) to signal to my mind that this is what I’m doing right now, and therefore, this is what […]

September 22, 2016March 3, 2018jilleng

Entry #3: There is Nothing to “Do”

This is my third entry in this series of recording myself each day to get a more personal feel to my posts. Please excuse that the editing is scanty as I am going for a more conversational feel: I’m finding this morning and lately that this work is the constant understanding that there is just nothing to […]

September 21, 2016March 3, 2018jilleng

Entry #2: Watching the News

I watch the news every morning and if I were to speak of the work (my practice, “Mindful Reality”) in that context I would have to say that upon hearing about the things that go on and feeling and seeing my opinions about different issues I am flashbacked to my own knowledge and the readings […]

September 20, 2016March 3, 2018jilleng

Entry #1: The Work

I am experimenting with a different way of blogging, at the moment. I recorded myself today in a free-flowing manner to begin (we will see) a series of entries about the work I have developed (what I call Mindful Reality) and my relationship to it. I warn you that although it makes the basic points, […]

August 1, 2016March 3, 2018jilleng

A Perspective on the Future

It is interesting to realize that this present moment and the action we are currently in, is the future of our past moments. We are currently “in the future” we imagined in the past. Since our idea of the future often makes us feel nervous because we worry that we won’t prepare well to get […]

April 19, 2016March 3, 2018jilleng

This is the Answer to That

When thinking about problems in our life we look for answers. That is what our mind does; it hunts around for the issues that are thorny in our life and tries to find solutions. It does this with everything that comes up mentally for us. As I have discussed in all of my writings, […]

March 13, 2016March 3, 2018jilleng

Related Themes

This is a page on my blog that I have recently updated with some youtube videos and an article. I will continue to update this page periodically but thought I would at least blog post it the first time. These people have greatly influenced my work so I thought I would share! click here: https://jillengmindfulreality.com/related-themes/ I […]

March 9, 2016March 21, 2018jilleng

Preface to “The Myth of Doing”

After completing my first book, Body Over Mind, I was propelled into research around the findings of neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet who in 1983 discovered that a volitional signal for action shows up in the brain before a person is conscious of the intention to act. This moved me into exploring the neuroscientific studies that have […]