Chris Niebauer
Quotes from Chris Niebauer
"Our association of our true self with the constant voice in our head is an instance of mistaking the map (the voice) for the territory (who we really are)."
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"The root of the problem is that many of us do not see language as a representation of reality, but confuse it with reality itself."
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"The trick is to become less identified with your thoughts, to not take them so seriously, to see them as 'happenings' rather than 'the way things really are.'"
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"The issue with any game - even this grand universe game - is that unless there is a possibility of defeat - and it has to be a 'real' defeat - there is no game. The grand game of all games is the game of life and death. If death didn't seem real, the game would be meaningless. Death seems like a real, genuine defeat because if it didn't, we would lose interest in the game."
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"What if the way to 'win' the game of life is to discover experientially that it's all a game in the first place and that you are the creator of the game? I emphasize the experience of this discovery, and I suggest that this is what happened to the Buddha, Laotzu, and other ancient masters from the East so long ago. In their case, identification with the self collapsed, and so did all the mental suffering that went with it."
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"If you want to have an infinite set of experiences, create fictitious egos that take themselves seriously and program them to always desire what they do not have."
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