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- NATURE (BUDDHA-NATURE) VERSUS NURTURE (MARA-NATURE) April 3, 2026
- BEING BUDDHIST IS BEING ORDINARY April 2, 2026
- A LUCKY ESCAPE April 1, 2026
- SUDDENLY NOT FEELING WRONG April 1, 2026
- REALISATION COMES FROM DROPPING THE MEDITATION March 31, 2026
- WE CANNOT NOT COMMUNICATE March 30, 2026
- WE’VE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERED March 30, 2026
- WHAT IS OUR ULTIMATE REALITY? March 29, 2026
- OUR COLLECTIVE PROBLEM March 28, 2026
- IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD March 27, 2026
- WHEN NEWS IS PROPAGANDA March 27, 2026
- IMPURE CONSCIOUSNESS AND PURE CONSCIOUSNESS March 26, 2026
- WHY DOES BUDDHISM GO ON ABOUT SUFFERING? March 25, 2026
- UN-REINFORCING THE I March 24, 2026
- “THE ODDS ARE STACKED AGAINST US” March 24, 2026
- DO YOU FEEL MONACHOPSIS? March 23, 2026
- ONE LIGHT OR MANY LIGHTS? March 23, 2026
- WHAT IS OUR COMMON GROUND? March 23, 2026
- DON’T LET DAMAGE CONTROL YOUR LIFE March 23, 2026
- BE THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY March 22, 2026
- BELIEVING AND DEBUNKING March 22, 2026
- THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS March 21, 2026
- GROUPS ARE CONFORMITY March 21, 2026
- PRACTICAL PRACTICE TO PRACTISE March 21, 2026
- WHO BENEFITS FROM CHAOS? March 20, 2026
- IS THERE A HIERACHY ON EARTH? March 20, 2026
- WORLD EVENTS CHANGE OUR THINKING March 20, 2026
- THE ANSWER TO LIFE March 19, 2026
- SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM March 18, 2026
- EVIL TRANSFORMS INTO WISDOM March 18, 2026
- THE COMFORTABLE DECEPTION March 18, 2026
- IT’S AN ANCIENT TRICK March 18, 2026
- WHAT ARE MORALS? March 17, 2026
- A POSITIVE OUTLOOK March 16, 2026
- REGRETS ARE MEMORIES March 16, 2026
- THE TWO VEILS OF UNHAPPINESS March 15, 2026
- WHAT IS SUCCESS? March 15, 2026
- KARMA IS OUR MANUAL FOR LIFE March 15, 2026
- DZOGCHEN March 14, 2026
- WE ALL GIVE OFF SIGNALS March 14, 2026
- INSTITUTIONAL INSANITY March 14, 2026
- CLARITY IS VIVIDNESS March 13, 2026
- WE INHERIT MEMORIES March 13, 2026
- FINDING EGO March 13, 2026
- HOLDING ONTO ANGER March 13, 2026
- WE WERE WARNED March 12, 2026
- TRANSCENDING THE LEVELS March 11, 2026
- THE AI LAMA March 11, 2026
- CLONING: CONTROL BELIEF, CONTROL REALITY March 10, 2026
- GHOST IN THE MIND March 10, 2026
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WORD SALAD
Word Salad Word salad: Tossing words from a dictionary into a salad bowl, and then pulling them out randomly to make a sentence. Spiritual jargon is like that – people use words without experience to impress. A word salad is the tactical … Continue reading
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THE DHARMA HAS TO BE HARD HITTING
The Dharma Has To Be Hard Hitting If the Dharma isn’t hard hitting, it won’t directly cut through our fixations, revealing the ultimate truth of our reality. Watering-down dilutes the Dharma into pleasing speculation, and weakens original experience. Watered-down Dharma is … Continue reading
BEING IMPRESSIONISTS
Being Impressionists Communicating with others is a precarious business which collapses easily because we usually try to impress. However, we can only impress others with similar fixations in the same circle of existence. The more we understand, the smaller the circle becomes. … Continue reading
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HOMO SAPIENS – CLEVER BUT NOT WISE
Homo Sapiens – Clever But Not Wise Humans can learn to do such clever things, and boast about them,but how many know their true reality? 🙂
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EMPATHY (CONTINUED)
Empathy (continued) Empathy is understanding how our ideas and feelings come about through mental osmosis. None of us have an original thought; thoughts are placed in our minds through social interaction – or rather, social engineering – which we adopt, … Continue reading
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WHAT IS EMPATHY?
What Is Empathy? Empathy – sharing feelings. Feeling – a vague or irrational emotional state. Empathy isn’t about sharing ideas. We aren’t empathising with all the ideas that everyone holds, but we can empathise with something very familiar – holding on to and fixating … Continue reading
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LOOKING AT EVIL ANOTHER WAY
Looking At Evil Another Way Evil is our guardian angel, but doesn’t know it.What?! Evil is self-gratification, usually with a belief in a ’cause’. We all have this affliction, but some are more extreme than others. When we see evil … Continue reading
WE DON’T NEED TO BELIEVE
We Don’t Need To Believe We don’t need to believe.We can know. If we can know, why would we want to believe?Why are so many more ready to believe than to know?Doubt. Why do we doubt?We’re so used to believing. … Continue reading
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WE EXAGGERATE THE TRUTH
We Exaggerate The Truth When we exaggerate the truth, we become desensitised,and exaggerate everything. Humanity exaggerates, causing confusion and conflict, and more exaggeration. This is Mara’s vicious cycle of existence, denying people contentment. “How can we be content with all … Continue reading
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THE DHARMA BRINGS OUT THE WORST IN US
The Dharma Brings Out The Worst In Us 😀It’s ego. Ego is consciousness clinging to ideas, which creates a hostile self.When we (consciousness) drop clinging to ideas, we are able to constantly adjust to situations to clarify them.
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THE LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The Light Of Consciousness The light of consciousness is the light of wisdom.It’s our true reality. Our reality is the light or clarity of pure consciousness. This isn’t something we can talk about as it cannot be described; we can … Continue reading
HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE AWAKE?
How Do We Know We Are Awake? “But I am awake!”Awake to what? Just because we see things and react to them doesn’t mean we’re awake to our reality. We aren’t actually awake because we refer mechanically to memories, a continuous … Continue reading
TWO APPROACHES TO SUFFERING: TENDERNESS OR DIRECTNESS
Two Approaches To Suffering: Tenderness Or Directness? There are two ways to address suffering: tenderness … “There, there; it’ll be all right.”or direct clarity … “There’s the problem.” Much depends on the temperament of the person who is seeking relief from suffering, … Continue reading
JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS
Just Following Orders Just following orders is just following words, which is the lowest form of intelligence, as we feel we’re immune from having to take responsibility. The result is the dark history of the world through the adoption of … Continue reading
OBSERVATION COMES BEFORE THOUGHTS
Observation Comes Before Thoughts Observation comes before thoughts.When we disregard or ignore this obvious truth, we become involved in conflicts. This pure observation is pure consciousness our reality. Consciousness isn’t some thing out there.
SEEING TOO MUCH
Seeing Too Much Seeing too much can be depressing. Observing people around us entertaining their minds through staring at screens, reading the news, plugging in ear buds, chattering about their history. The screens, the news, the music, the chatter … … Continue reading
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IRREFUTABLE PROOF OF REALITY
Irrefutable Proof Of Reality For something to be real, it can never not be real; it has to be constant. Space has that quality, and so does consciousness. There is a third aspect, and that is formula. Formula runs the universe: attraction, … Continue reading
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HOW STUPID ARE WE?
How Stupid Are We? It’s amazing how stupid we are. We’re imprisoned by others’ words, and we’re proud of it. Words are written for us to believe in, so much so that we consider those who don’t believe the same words … Continue reading
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WHY RELATIONSHIPS STOP …
Why Relationships Stop… Why do relationships stop … and stay stopped?Why can’t we put them right? Is it the projection of our ‘product’, our mindset that others pick up? And why can no amount of effort put it right? We … Continue reading
WE ALL HEAR AND SEE DIFFERENTLY
We All Hear And See Differently The difference is in our personal mindset of memories – our translator. Every time we react or respond, our particular, peculiar mindset – the ‘product’ – is revealed. This mindset is activated when the … Continue reading
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WE SHOULD NEVER ASSUME THAT WE’RE TALKING TO SANE PEOPLE
We Should Never Assume That We’re Talking To Sane People People look sane until they start speaking, and then they reveal what’s in their minds.We may think, “Surely there must be more! Perhaps they talk about reality at home?” 🙂 … Continue reading
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BELIEVING THE TRUTH
Believing The Truth ‘Believing the truth’ is an oxymoron. Belief has been our greatest deception.Belief is the opposite to knowing. Belief obscures knowing.Belief is suggestion.Belief makes us stupid. To believe is to accept that something is true without proof. We are governed by this principle, … Continue reading
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RECOGNITION
Recognition Questions Induce RecognitionQuestions aren’t about getting the answer.Questions are about our answer along our path.Interaction creates an open atmospherefor the answer we need to know at that moment. Looking Back On StupidityI look back on life and see how stupid I was – and why. … Continue reading
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MEDITATION HAS TO BE PRACTICAL
Meditation Has To Be Practical If meditation isn’t changing our attitude, speech and conduct into insight and wisdom, then we are still controlled by thoughts, memories and beliefs. We can spend hours or months meditating in retreat, and still no … Continue reading
PEOPLE ARE SCARY
People Are Scary Scary = alarming. Alarm heightens awareness. People are extremists.Our reaction to people is the teaching.
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MARA’S WORLD
Mara’s World Awareness: “It’s What We Have, To Do Things With”. That is what most of us think and, as a result, we ignore our true reality. People become competitive, outdoing one another and creating conflict. We either believe in … Continue reading
WORDS ARE DREAMS
Words Are Dreams Words are not reality. Undressed awareness is. Words are a dressing that covers a wound.The wound is belief in words. Words are not reality. Undressed awareness is.
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ANYONE CAN LEARN THE DHARMA
Anyone Can Learn The Dharma Anyone can learn facts about the Dharma and sound authentic, but do they have insight? We so easily fall into line with anything exotic – from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’ – because we’re dissatisfied with our life, and so we’re looking … Continue reading
THE DEGENERATION OF THE DHARMA
The Degeneration Of The Dharma The degeneration of the Dharma in degenerate times.\As foretold by Padmasambhava (circa 8th – 9th century). Degenerate: the change from a higher to a lower form. There is definitely a decline in society, with social unrest orchestrated by … Continue reading
‘PATH’MEANS LEVELS OF UNDERSTANDING
‘Path’ Means Levels Of Understanding Our path is not one idea, one identity that we carry along with us. Our path is a continuous refinement of understanding, which means constantly dropping what we thought we knew, and the type of … Continue reading
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SHATTERING YOUR COMPOSURE
Shattering Your Composure If your composure can be shattered, it’s fake. However, at that very moment when we are in shock, a gap arises. This is emptiness. Pure consciousness. Our composure is fragile until we have no self to maintain. … Continue reading
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BEING A CONSTANT PESSIMIST
Being A Constant Pessimist Pessimism: a belief that this world is as bad as it could be or that evil will ultimately prevail over goodness. Being governed by negativity, we will find fault in everything – except ourselves – as we … Continue reading
THE TRAUMATISATION OF HUMANITY
The Traumatisation Of Humanity Throughout history, humans have been traumatised by information/news/entertainment, which is programming that leads us away from our true reality. Unable to feel content, we constantly look for something different, and become addicts of the new. This … Continue reading
TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTIVITY
Transmission And Receptivity No communication, no transmission, no reception,no spontaneous insight, no magic, no open mind, no blessings. An open mind clears all channels.
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THERE IS NO DHARMA IN THE PRESENT MOMENT
There Is No Dharma In The Present Moment In the present moment, there is nothing to hold on to – not even the Dharma, words, devotion …These separate us into a duality – me and something. The greatest trick evil ever … Continue reading
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WHAT IS WELL-BEING?
What Is Well-Being? Knowing is well-being. Wanting to know about truthindicates that we don’t know the truth. We are merely being occupied by words and concepts. Reading texts, and attending lectures and retreats means that we doubt. When we know the truth of our … Continue reading
BEING TAKEN OVER
Being Taken Over Capturing the mind en masse is a war we never noticed. We don’t notice that we’ve been taken over by a gradual cultural change until it is too late. When people have taken on ideas, they’ve have … Continue reading
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WHAT PEOPLE SEE AND DON’T SEE
What People See And Don’t See Which is more amazing –what people see, or what people ignore? Magic is the art of deception. It has captivated and enthralled us for over 2,500 years. The first recorded magic act was by the magician … Continue reading
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WHAT IS ‘GOING WITH THE FLOW’?
What Is ‘Going With The Flow’? Whatever comes our way is due to our previous decisions that cause our re-actions now. It’s our programmed mindset, which is called karma in Sanskrit. Karma is showing us our judgemental re-actions which just create further … Continue reading
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WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT?
What Is More Important? What is more important,our thoughts or the awareness of those thoughts? One is our original reality, while the other is our interpretation, which is either a generalisation or a fantasy. One is the common element that unites … Continue reading
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WHAT IF ENLIGHTENMENT ISN’T…
What If Enlightenment Isn’t … What if enlightenment isn’tas supernatural as we’re led to believe? There are stories. We like stories. This isn’t meant to be detrimental to religion, but there is essence in the teachings of compassionate wisdom, and then … Continue reading
IDEAS SEPARATE PEOPLE
Ideas Separate People It’s obvious that ideas separate people, but we still cling to our ideas.Why? It’s a habit, and it’s wilful – this is me, that’s you – so we appear to different, while in essence we’re not. We … Continue reading
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MATERIALISTS AND NON-MATERIALISTS
Materialists and Non-Materialists Materialists are never satisfied. Non-materialists recognise that there is no satisfaction in materialism. Materialists are fascinated by matter and the manipulation of matter. Non-materialists recognise that matter is merely a vehicle. Materialists want a ‘perfect’ world and are zero-tolerant; … Continue reading
EXISTENTIALISM IS A MISNOMER
Existentialism Is A Misnomer Existentialism: a philosophical theory which emphasises the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. The misunderstanding here is that it makes us believe we have … Continue reading
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BLAMING THE DISTRACTION
Blaming The Distraction There is suffering in the world, and we blame the effects but not the actual causes. Nothing just happens; problems are orchestrated by the ‘right elements’ in order to create suffering and produce a desired effect. Why? … Continue reading
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IS ENLIGHTENMENT SIMPLE, OR OUT OF REACH?
Is Enlightenment Simple, Or Out Of Reach? Enlightenment’s simple. There is nothing to it! 🙂 If we become stuck with the idea that our true reality is something out of reach, extra special, secret with complicated rituals, we will remain half-hearted about … Continue reading
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THE ANCIENT TEACHINGS AREN’T ANCIENT
The Ancient Teachings Aren’t Ancient The ancient teachings on the ultimate truth about our reality aren’t ancient, they are timeless. The ultimate truth is here right now, the very essence of all sentient beings. It is the actual meaning of … Continue reading