Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

Please understand that your mind will always think it’s right. The mind is not dumb; it knows what it experienced. But it doesn’t know what it didn’t experience—which is an infinitely larger body of knowledge. This is why the wise sage Lao Tzu reflected that a wise man does not argue—for what purpose?

In truth, consciousness is the most profound miracle. An essence that knows that it knows that it knows.

The important question is not what to do about this, it is: Who is noticing all this? The same consciousness is aware of this entire process going on inside.

Almost 99 percent of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

Instead of paying attention, you’re getting so uptight about wanting butterflies, and not wanting rattlesnakes, that you’re losing your centered awareness. When the world around you comes in and hits, or activates, your stored patterns, you can no longer observe reality objectively. Your consciousness gets drawn into the activated samskaras, and ev

Of what possible benefit could it be to still be bothered by something that happened before that isn’t happening now?

Samskaras are not to be taken lightly; they seriously distort your experience of life.

The logical questions become: Why are you storing all this stuff inside you? And if you’re going to store stuff inside, why not make it nice stuff?

At this point you no longer experience yourself as human—you experience yourself as a being of energy.