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

by Kapil Gupta

When one wish is granted, you will beg for another. When it is not, you will either wait in hope, or curse out of spite. Dependency will rob you of your freedom.

What I am saying is to rely upon yourself for all the needs that arise within you.

Responsibility is a societal creation. No one is truly responsible for another. You do not owe your children anything. They do not owe you anything. If you wish to do, then do. If they wish to do, they may also do. That which comes from the heart is natural and satisfying. That which comes from the idea of responsibility is forced, artificial, and often produces resentment and the expectation for reciprocation.

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.

Understanding that happiness is a fleeting emotion. One cannot build a home in it. In understanding this, one naturally begins to seek an alternative.

The person that you call “yourself” is a manufactured entity. It is the lens through which you experience the entirety of your life.

If one seeks to become the master of the mind, one must begin by exploring intensely the details of the mind’s creation. That is, this “you” that it has created. Explore it as an innocent observer. Explore it as the one who is not the “you.”

The presence of rain gave birth to the invention of an umbrella. In the same way, the presence of misery gave birth to the idea of happiness. No human being seeks happiness. What he seeks is an escape from misery.