Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life

by Kapil Gupta

If a human life is devoted to something, one tends to lose oneself in it. As one loses oneself in it, the more blissful one becomes.

Attachment gives birth to hope and need. If you are attached to them, you will need them to do certain things, achieve certain things, be a certain way, and behave toward you in a certain way. When they do not, it will cause you pain. When you experience pain, you will behave toward them in a way that pain compels you to behave. And they will behave toward you in a way that their need for freedom compels them to behave. And this will continue for the rest of your lives.

Because right and wrong are societo-religious creations. They have no basis in reality.

That anger is not as reactionary as you think it to be. It is a weapon that you enjoy using in order to protect your ego and to bolster it.

This is so good!

Each man acts according to his own personal motivations. And whatever his motivations are is a matter for him to resolve within himself.

Two individuals who need each other will only have conflict. They can never have a relationship.

This is too big a word for human beings to understand. Like is more useful and powerful than love.

A relationship of peace is a relationship that is more parallel than perpendicular. It is two individuals that move side by side. Rather than two individuals that intersect. A maintenance of individuality and freedom results in the prevalence of peace.

If one devotes himself to a god so completely that he himself disappears, he is certain to find the Truth. The completeness of devotion matters. The object of devotion matters not.

One can make a habit of anything. If one is taught from a young age to pray, he will pray out of habit. Prayer is not done for the well-being of the god one prays to. It is done for the well-being of the one who prays. It is also done out of fear. The fear that if one does not pray, something will be taken away from him, or that he will be punished. Man has turned god into a genie and a warden.

Spirituality is as bastardized as religion.

Spirituality is a concoction of prescriptions and half-truths. It is a circus of orange robes, incense, and ineffective jargon such as love and mindfulness. It is a maze of silent retreats and men with pony tails and yoga pants spouting spiritual psychobabble to those who enjoy the psychobabble. It is the unserious leading the unserious in concentric circles that lead only to more circles.

It is an attempt to force oneself into the present.

Mindfulness

If there is someone who naturally and continually lives in the present because of having practiced mindfulness, that will benefit him greatly.

Because one may force himself into the present for a fraction of a second, but he will not force himself to live there permanently. It is like trying to empty the ocean with a teacup.

Mindfulness Not effective if you're tryig to live in present

Because if you try to force the mind, it retaliates.

Society enjoys hoopla.

The Buddha was not mindful. He was mindless.

To be lost in what you are doing.

Meditativeness

Mindfulness is forced awareness.

To be lost in what you are doing is to lose the self. Instead of trying to improve the self.

Man is lazy and undisciplined for the things that do not move him. He is motivated and voracious for the things that inspire him.

Forcing oneself is short-lived. As all things that are insincere are short-lived. If one is honest and sincere about his motivations, he will move with himself, instead of against himself.

Happiness is the attempt to escape from misery.

Anger is born of unfulfilled desire. It is born of unfulfilled expectation.

Fear is the natural consequence of man not knowing himself.

Man does not seek world peace. He seeks self-peace.

One can live the whole of his life within it. It is way to accessing the whole of one’s genius. It is the way to unending peace. It is the holy grail of human existence.

state of no mind

The greatest change arises from inspiration.

Buddha did not try to change the world. He turned himself into a Buddha.

To guide people along the true path without them feeling your hand, is true guidance. To speak to them in such a way that they do not feel instructed, is true speech. To keep them in your orbit so that you may watch over them, without them feeling the slightest loss of freedom, is true caring. To invest in them the Truths that will keep them safe and successful in their journey of life, while surrendering the need to take ownership of these ideas so that they may take ownership of them, is wisdom and dispassion.