Sincere Questions May Receive A Reply - Kapil Gupta on Clubhouse (March 29th 2022)

Truth is a solitary pursuit, because there aren't many people in the world who are genuinely seeking truth. Therefore, by definition, all of your so-called friends are going to be individuals who aren't interested in truth. Therefore, you will always be the black sheep and the odd man out.

'Do your best' has no meaning. Do you do your best when you walk to your car?

Everyone in the world has been completely and utterly conditioned by words and ideas and concepts and notions. They throw around words, because the words have been thrown to them.

If one's allegiance is more in the direction of making socializations, and that is where one's interest lies, then true will tend to be a very difficult thing for that individual, because it tends to be completely at odds with an individual who seeks socialization and friends circles and all of these things.

One of the most fundamental misunderstanding is that there can be a group anything, and there's not. If you have a group anything, it's a group disaster. It is not serious.

I will tell you, generally, that the word selfish is denoted in a negative sense, whereas unselfish and altruism tend to have an air of holiness or goodness. In reality, the opposite is true.

That's where all self-help falls right through the floor is through the methodizing and turning things into a hack and a technique. It is the greatest plague in existence.

Wherever there is a prescription—do this or do that, or pretend this, or think that, or try this, or meditate this, or mindfulness that—that's just the way to keep you exactly where you are.

The human being is a slave to his mind ... The person who is imprisoned by the mind has no choice.

If you discuss truth with other people, you generally will be met with awkward glances and people calling you afterwards to ask you if everything's alright.

Change has no meaning. If you change, your change back.

It typically is the case that a person who feels viscerally about the shame or guilt of wasting their lives tends to also be the one, oftentimes, who was chance to get out of that. A person who doesn't even realize that or doesn't care will never get out of that.

Where there is no specificity, there is waste.

You could, in the end, call everything a construct. But life is real, and death is real, and everything in between tends to be a construct.

Suppressing desires doesn't usually go anywhere.

From a practical perspective, what gets one into problems is all mind, because that's where a person is conditioned to move towards regardless of how something may begin.