Boom! (2)

To break our attachment to our thoughts, we should not engage with them. What’s required is that we cultivate a certain aloofness, a majestic indifferency to their false urgency and howls for attention.

UFOs

We are gradually ceding control to a vast and insinuating intelligence. Being artificial, it’s cold. Take the growing raft of UFO sightings. They conjure no warmth, no friendliness. It’s like we’re being probed.

Between the poles

Over-the-top praise casts a shadow: under-the-table aspersion. The stoic practices indifference to both.

Two faces

The true man is two-faced to this extent: He plays the game alright but it doesn’t matter to him whether he wins or loses.

The indifference of love

Light cannot ‘see’ darkness. Consciousness has no problems. It regrets nothing, hopes for nothing, anticipates nothing. It has no agenda or thought process. Not even the affairs of men can diminish its sublimity.