Kapil Gupta on desire & self-image
Kapil holds that everything a person does is colored by what he desires most, usually pleasure, and that no one chooses his desires, so he declines to call any of them good or bad. The world can give only temporary pleasures, so every chase for them ends in pain and ties back to a self-image that can never be whole. Helping, convincing and self-improvement are mostly driven by wanting to be liked, and he would rather be true to himself than play the world's game.
15 points · 7 appearances · 2021–2025
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2021–2025
“Freedom is freedom from the mind. The only reason that any human being is not free is because of his mind. It is the mind which creates his tortures. It is the mind which creates his anxieties. It is the mind which creates his conflicts. It is the mind which creates his rules. All that he is confined by, all that he is imprisoned by, is the mind, not anything else.”
2021–2025
“Prescriptions are how-tos, hacks, five-step plans, methods, techniques. These are the only currency that exists in the world today, from the domains of the most spiritual and so-called sacred to the domains of the outright materialistic and worldly. It's literally the only thing that exists. There is no such thing as a domain or an expert or a discipline or a teaching or a book or anything that exists anywhere on this planet that is not a prescription, whose philosophy is not founded entirely and solely and exclusively upon prescriptions. Everyone has been conditioned into — everyone has been brainwashed, and the brainwashing is so complete that even the so-called wise men fall for it.”
2021–2025
“But that's how all things are created. That's how all things are created. So if that's how all things are created, then the only place to go is truth. If rain is your goal, then the only place to go is to line up with the atmospheric pressure and the moisture and the whatever parameters that make the rain fall. So truth is the only thing that isn't spiritual, and there's no abstractness. Rain isn't spiritual, right? It isn't like holy rain, it's rain. Okay? So that's how all things work. And I realized that, so for me the only path became truth. If I'm on that side, if the more I can learn about how things happen all by themselves, why wouldn't I learn that? Because that's — the outcome's only going to be listening to that. The outcome isn't going to be listening to the people. So why would I listen to those people whom the outcome doesn't listen to? There is nothing spiritual and abstract and philosophical and woo woo about what I just said. This is second grade.”
2021–2025
“One has to understand that when they come into my domain, what they're coming into — they're coming into a very biased place. And my bias is holistically and directly towards ultimateness, truth, world class, reality, the whole thing, the peak of Everest, the ultimate of the ultimate, the ultimate possibility of a human organism. That's where — that's everything I talk about is from there. So I don't have any space or any interest, or I make no room for commoners who seek common things, who seek a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And that's perfectly fine, but that's not what I'm interested in. I don't care about that. And so therefore, could you meditate and get something out of it? Yes, you can. If you meditate, you can get some peace for 20 minutes a day, sure. You commit any crimes? Of course not. You know, that's not a crime. So — but I'm looking at everything from Buddhahood. I'm looking at everything from the ultimate possibility of a human being, both in profession, in skill development, in learning, in life, in internal freedom, everything. The ultimate is the only thing which interests me. I'm not interested in the low and the middle of the road. I'm not interested in dabbling.”