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Empathy Is The Power Of The Survivor Empathy is the power of the survivor. We aren’t guessing how people feel; we recognise a mind-scape we’ve already walked. Even in ‘spiritual’ group, we know how it is to sit in a … Continue reading →

The Tender Trap The most effective element of a trap is its transparency; it doesn’t look like a cage, so we think that’s the way things are supposed to be. When we look at both religious and secular systems, the … Continue reading →

Suppressed Knowledge As long as we adhere to words, true knowledge is suppressed because we don’t have actual experience. True knowledge is the expression of experience through pure awareness. Without that, we are merely intellectualising, which is a hamster wheel … Continue reading →

Words Control Our Mind Language is the scaffold controlling consciousness, and limiting communication. Language itself is an altered state of consciousness that we’re born into; by using prefabricated phrases and social jargon, we surrender to pre-set labels. Meditation erases the … Continue reading →

What If We’re Already Enlightened? What if we’re already enlightened, and nothing special? It would put a lot of gurus out of work, which is the aim of gurus. 🙂 What if our thoughts were obscuring this enlightened state, keeping … Continue reading →

The Meaning Of Life A meaningful life has a goal, a point to it. It’s up to each individual to decide what that is, and the level which satisfies. We have to decide what is unnecessary – and whatever we … Continue reading →

Go Forth And Sparkle 😀 This sparkle encourages positivity, confidence, responsibility, contentment … and anger. Anger?? In the very first instant of seeing that something is amiss, consciousness brightens, and becomes alert. That moment is pure consciousness, before we start … Continue reading →

What Knows? Once we see that ‘personal’ and ‘universal’ are just conceptual bookend labels created by the mind to try and package the un-packageable, they fall away. They are understood to be objects of knowledge, whereas what we are pointing … Continue reading →

What To Do After Realisation Realisation is an enlightened attitude towards everything, because we actually experience the only reality of pure consciousness. It’s quite simple; it’s that which is reading these words right now, without reacting (reactions come along a … Continue reading →

Alienation Coming to a definitive conclusion can alienate or antagonise people who react defensively when their beliefs and opinions aren’t acknowledged. Reliance on belief makes the human mind vulnerable, because belief is not absolute truth. Belief is holding anything we … Continue reading →

We Get Old Because We Stop Playing When we ‘grow up’, we take ourselves seriously.We lose the present moment, and obsess about the past. When we stop being playful, we stop learning and experimenting,no longer finding joy in the small … Continue reading →

Our Moral Landscape There isn’t only one way to be moral. Just as there are many ways to be physically and mentally healthy, there are many ways to be physically and mentally unhealthy. An everyday observer would agree that the … Continue reading →

Compos Mentis – Non-Compos Mentis There are two types of people. Compos mentis is a Latin phrase meaning of sound mind. It describes an individual who has full control over their mental faculties. Non-compos mentis describes someone who is not … Continue reading →

Conquering The Universe Conquer self. Stop panicking. It’s one infinite universe. People may say there are other universes, but they’re all experienced in the infinite space of no circumference. The problem for most people is that they think if there … Continue reading →