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THE FIFTH PARAMITA – CONCENTRATION

The Fifth Paramita – Concentration The term, “the six paramitas”, is Sanskrit for the six essential abilities or perfections of generosity, patience, morality, discipline, concentration and transcendent wisdom. Concentration is meditation; simply being aware, being mindful without effort. We merely … Continue reading

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WE RUN ON MEMORIES & INFLUENCES

We Run On Memories & Influences We run on memories and influences; that is our programming for life. Subtle traumas – unpleasant and pleasant – are landmarks in the mind that obscure/darken/cover our lens. All the while, pure view sits … Continue reading

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‘OM MANI PEME HUM’ IS NOT A LUCKY CHARM

‘Om Mani Peme Hum’ Is Not A Lucky Charm The mantra, Om mani peme hum, is not a lucky charm. It represents six essentials for a compassionate life. These are generosity, patience, morality, discipline, concentration and transcendent wisdom. Om mani … Continue reading

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ANIMALS AREN’T EVIL

Animals Aren’t Evil Animals aren’t evil – only humans can be evil. All sentient beings are moved by fear, hope and indifference to survive, but it is only when we hold on to our fears, hopes and indifferences that evil … Continue reading

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PROPAGANDA CAN BE TEACHINGS

Propaganda Can Be Teachings Spiritual teachings show us what is obvious and clearly seen. When we see clearly, we see more. There is propaganda everywhere, telling us subconsciously how to think. These signs are teachings. When we read the signs … Continue reading

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WE ARE THE MYSTERY

We Are The Mystery We are the mystery – not our reality! In its inception, our self-image was created by consciousness being confused about its reality. That is the mystery. When we realise our true reality, there is no mystery.

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RETURN TO SENDER

Return To Sender If we do not react to others’ abuse or emotions, we reduce the effect of our karma, and the abuse simply returns to the sender. Now they have to deal with their karma.

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IF WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

If We Do Not Believe In God If we don’t believe in God, why do we shout (when something goes wrong) – “Jesus!!” or reply to something we don’t know – “God knows?!” The words are ingrained in our subconscious … Continue reading

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THE STATE OF DENIAL

The State Of Denial Is it possible that denial is a coping mechanism? If we haven’t woken up to something being very wrong, we are in a state of denial, and will fight to stay in that place. Truth irritates … Continue reading

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WRONG THINK

Wrong Think Wrong think: A lack of trust in authority. Is questioning a crime? An example: being kicked out of a spiritual group for not believing. 🙂

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WE ARE NOT AS CLEVER AS WE THINK

We Are Not As Clever As We Think We are not as clever as we think – we are cleverer! When we are just using our mind, we’re borrowing ideas from others, and merely putting those ideas together in a … Continue reading

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WHEN WE COME TO OUR SENSES

When We Come To Our Senses When we come to our senses, no thought is present in that moment; that is pure awareness. When thoughts arise, all we have to do is become aware of one or other of the … Continue reading

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PLANET OF THE MIND SNATCHERS

Planet Of The Mind Snatchers From birth, our mind is taken away, and replaced with a system. These systems are to help us fit into this world but, if we don’t know our true mind, we become a prisoner to … Continue reading

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SMALL MINDS THINK ALIKE

Small Minds Think Alike Small minds think alike: they are full of ‘facts’. Great minds think alike; they are empty of ‘facts’. The full quotation is, “Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ” (from the 16th century).

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LOCKED IN PRECONCEIVED IDEAS

Locked In Preconceived Ideas Preconceived: an idea or opinion formed before having the evidence for its truth or usefulness. When our thoughts are predetermined, we fall into prejudgement and become prejudiced, which leads to a very narrow way of life. To get through life, we have to have thoughts and skills, but underlying … Continue reading

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BECOMING FASCINATED

Becoming Fascinated Fascinated: attracting the strong attention and interest of someone. A snake deprives a prey of the ability to resist or escape by the power of a gaze: the serpent fascinates its prey. ORIGIN: late 16th century from Latin fascinat- ‘bewitched’, from fascinum ‘spell, witchcraft’. As we can see, being … Continue reading

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STILL LOOKING FOR THAT ‘WOW’ EXPERIENCE IN SPIRITUALITY?

Still Looking For That ‘Wow’ Experience In Spirituality? That’s the big problem. Because of indoctrination and elaborate rituals, we’ve come to think that ‘spiritual’ experience is something special. That’s the big problem. We are expecting something. That is the narrative … Continue reading

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WE CANNOT DOUBT CONSCIOUSNESS

We Cannot Doubt Consciousness We may doubt ourselves, but we cannot doubt consciousness. Our self is a build-up of dogma – a set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. We are all indoctrinated from childhood, and thus we give our … Continue reading

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SENTIENT BEINGS: JUDGEMENTAL

Sentient Beings: Judgemental All creatures judge to survive, but we become judgemental, and fixate when we don’t feel safe. We get snappy, and shut the door. Once we are confident, we feel safe, and therefore have no need to be … Continue reading

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COMPLICATED = EASY CONFUSION

Complicated = Easy Confusion Realisation is being aware of awareness. That awareness is consciousness. We are that consciousness which, in essence, is emptiness – uncontaminated clarity. Now for the complicated bit … we doubt.

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A MAGNANIMOUS BEING

A Magnanimous Being  Magnanimity is confidence that illumines both our collective potential and our deficiencies.

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HOW PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NATURAL

How Pure Consciousness Is Natural While just perceiving through the senses, no thought is present. We might assume that, because we are seeing objects and events, thought is present. Not so. Being aware of just seeing is pure consciousness. No … Continue reading

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INSTEAD OF READING ABOUT IT, LIVE IT

Instead Of Reading About It, Live It We can sound pretty clever repeating what we have read to impress others. It’s just information, and there is no real knowledge or a meeting of minds. It’s all one-sided, whereas talking about … Continue reading

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IN A CORRUPT WORLD, WE CANNOT JUST SIT BACK

In A Corrupt World, We Cannot Just Sit Back We know that childhood traumas affect our behaviour in later life, and condemn the next generation to more confusion, regret and depression. In meditation, we sit and do nothing. In life, … Continue reading

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CONFLICT COMES FROM OPPOSITES

Conflict Comes From Opposites As long as we take sides, we are divided, and there will be conflict. As long as this state of affairs is fuelled, we will remain divided. Be aware. Be very aware.

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WHAT IS DISINFORMATION?

What Is Disinformation? To a lie, truth is disinformation. To truth, a lie is disinformation. Some things are created to create something else. This how division is accomplished.

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BE A FIXER; DON’T BE FIXATED

Be A Fixer; Don’t Be Fixated A fixer solves problems. The fixated cause them. 🙂

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IT’S LIKE WE ARE BROKEN

It’s Like We Are Broken If we lose our purpose, it’s like we are broken. We come into life with everything we need to know, but we don’t know how it all fits together. There are those who want us … Continue reading

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PURE CONSCIOUSNESS ISN’T AN ALTERED STATE

Pure Consciousness Isn’t An Altered State Unfortunately, many are lead to believe that pure consciousness – our ultimate reality – is some sort of mysterious, altered state of consciousness. It isn’t. We live in that altered state now, just following … Continue reading

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DON’T CLING TO AN IDENTITY

Don’t Cling To An Identity Identity is our personal prison. We are captured by capturing ourselves. Taking the place of religion that binds us, we’re encouraged to pray with our thumbs, seeking our heart’s desire. Pure consciousness has no identity.

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WE ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN

We Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin By virtue of the concept of darkness, light must be known. A reflection in a mirror. Pure consciousness that sees an adopted self. The two sides are inseparable. When we know the … Continue reading

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WHAT WE SAY ABOUT OURSELVES…

What We Say About Ourselves… What we say about ourselves gives us away. Just because we think or say something about ourselves doesn’t mean it’s true. The truth within everyone is the unity of pure consciousness which doesn’t express the … Continue reading

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TIME IS EVERYTHING

Time Is Everything Time only exists because all phenomena has a beginning, and middle and an end. Thoughts have a beginning, a middle and an end and therefore have no reality. Space does not have a beginning, a middle and … Continue reading

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DO ALIENS VISIT US?

Do Aliens Visit Us? In an infinite universe, there are an infinite number of beings, so why would they bother coming all this way and not say hello, even to spiritual adepts/deep meditators who don’t panic? 🙂 It’s because the … Continue reading

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THE MAGIC WORDS THAT DID IT FOR ME

The Magic Words That Did It For Me “Do not take my word for it.” The Buddha said, “Do not take my word for it: see or test it as if you would test for gold.” This was such a relief, … Continue reading

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THE MANY WAYS TO REALISATION

The Many Ways To Realisation Realisation is the experience of what we actually are, and it’s never what we think or believe 😀 We are, first and foremost, pure consciousness. What else can we be? It is through this that everything … Continue reading

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HAVE RELIGION AND SCIENCE BEEN HIJACKED?

Have Religion And Science Been Hijacked? By whom? By the facade of benefit. We are lured into beliefs, and because we are lethargic (from Greek: lēthargos ‘forgetful),’ we don’t bother seeking any further than whatever we are told. That assumption is belief, and belief … Continue reading

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HUMANITY = MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO

Humanity = Monkey See, Monkey Do ‘Monkey-mind’ is a Buddhist term meaning a mind that jumps all over the place, and is restless, fanciful, inconstant, confused, uncontrollable. How did we get this way? Aristotle said, “Give me a child until he is … Continue reading

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DOES OUR MOOD AFFECT OUR DNA BLUEPRINT?

Does Our Mood Affect Our DNA Blueprint? There is much on the internet about this subject. It shows that our disposition and our arrangement of mind and character have an effect our health. Whether it does or it doesn’t, always … Continue reading

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YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DISAGREE!

You Have Every Right To Disagree! I’d be interested in your views.If you want to keep it private, write to buddhainthemud@hotmail.com

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TRAPPED BY TRAPPINGS

Trapped By Trappings ‘Trappings’ are the outward signs of knowledge, power and wealth that symbolise status – the worthy. They are a snare; an ambush for the unaware – the unworthy. This relationship trap between the worthy and unworthy is where we … Continue reading

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I’M ALL PUFFED-UP, AH HA HA :-)

I’m All Puffed-up, Ah Ha Ha 🙂 The journey to enlightenment starts with a single step of acknowledging dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction can either make us desire more, which only leads to more desire, or look for the cause of this dissatisfaction, … Continue reading

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SPONTANEOUS CONSCIOUSNESS

Spontaneous Consciousness Spontaneous consciousness: no time to refer to memory; open, natural, and uninhibited. Coming to our senses without identifying; just spontaneously present. That is what we are. Once we are controlled by memories, we go into our habitual patterning. That is … Continue reading

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EVERYTHING THAT SCIENTISTS DO IS NATURAL?

Everything That Scientists Do Is Natural? Scientists believe that everything they do is part of nature. If we push here, however, we take something away from there. There are always consequences to our actions; it’s the law of attraction and … Continue reading

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OUR MEMORY IS OUR BIAS

Our Memory Is Our Bias When we impose our bias – our mind-worms – on to the present moment, we continually live in the past as, the moment we see or hear anything, that perception goes straight to our memory-worm … Continue reading

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EVIL IMPROVES MY INTELLIGENCE

Evil Improves My Intelligence Every time I hear an ‘expert’ speak, it’s a warning sign. 🙂 Power stays in power by changing its name. Knowledge is neutral; it’s what ‘experts’ do with that knowledge that’s terrifying.

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THE SHOW MUST GO ON

The Show Must Go On For the show to go on, you need money. For money, you need an audience… … a captive audience. A captive audience is continual power. Upon entering the theatre of the collective, we conform to … Continue reading

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THERE IS NO GURU-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP

There Is No Guru-Student Relationship There is no guru-student relationship:it’s all in our head. Gurus acquire a lot of students because people are desperate to find something else in life to attach to. If we are too dependent on a … Continue reading

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A LACK OF CLARITY CREATES DEMONS

A Lack Of Clarity Creates Demons A lack of clarity causes distractions and fixations, which are the demons in the mind. If we think that we know, we become full of ourselves. That self is the demon. 😀 As long as … Continue reading

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GET PAST THE STUPID AND ARRIVE AT THE TRUTH

Get Past The Stupid And Arrive At The Truth 😀 We all do and say stupid things; it’s being human. Knowing that we do and say stupid things, we can arrive at the truth. That very knowing is consciousness. Now, … Continue reading

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