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Tag Archives: Addiction
BELIEF IS ADDICTION
Belief Is Addiction Belief is addition, and we are born into addiction. Ideas are beliefs that we adopt and become addicted to; these are then considered to be more important than friendship. We don’t like people who don’t believe what we … Continue reading
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HUMAN ENGINEERING – HUMAN MODIFICATION
Human Engineering – Human Modification Everything on Earth can be modified – especially our minds – and therefore, our expectations and our beliefs. This starts in our infancy with ‘sweet’, pleasing little somethings, and then we spend the rest of … Continue reading
WHILE MY KEYBOARD GENTLY WEEPS
While My Keyboard Gently Weeps We became perverted through the feeding of our desires, maintaining obsession and addiction. Through unhappiness, we chase after rainbows which are impossible to attain. Our natural state is already happy. ‘Hap’ means fortunate or lucky, … Continue reading
FUTILE DILIGENCE
Futile Diligence Futile diligence is addiction. Life seems purposeless, so we make a purpose. When we obsess about a subject or activity, we lose sight of our actual reality, and focus on something or someone else, making our life and … Continue reading
THE DANGER OF EXPECTATION
The Danger Of Expectation Expectation: a strong belief that something will happen. Ordinary human happiness is based on the expectation of fulfilling a desire. The expectation makes us feel happy, but it’s never completely satisfying because it doesn’t last, and so we seek more of the … Continue reading
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Tagged a hinderance to reality, Addiction, Belief, Chenrezi, compassion, EMPATHY, esoteric, exoteric, expectation, experience, fulfilling desire, hope, Miracles, Tong len prctice
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ADDICTION CONSUMES US
Addiction Consumes Us When we are addicted to an idea – our truth – we see nothing else. We can be addicted to anything – political ideas, spiritual teachings, social affairs – and see nothing else. Addiction is being fixated … Continue reading
WHY DO WE WANT MORE AND MORE DHARMA?
Why Do We Want More And More Dharma? Dharma is the teaching about our own true nature of just seeing. When we just see, we are free. We simply have to see that we see, and rest there. Resting in … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Dharma, drop, just be, just see, look, Meditation, OUR TRUE NATURE, Plato's cave, Pure Consciousness., see, teachings, the completion stage, we are free when we see
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OPINIONS CAN TURN INTO ADDICTIONS
Opinions Can Turn Into Addictions and addictions ruin lives. It’s a shock to recognise addiction, but understanding this upgrades consciousness. There is a connection between plain seeing and becoming an addict or a fundamentalist. Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering … Continue reading
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WE ARE CONDITIONED TO BE ADDICTED
We Are Conditioned To Be Addicted to being conditioned This is hell, and we need to wake up. In other words, we are led down someone else’s path, and we then maintain that. We have agreed to be conditioned, and … Continue reading
WHAT IS AUTHENTIC, GENUINE, VERIFIABLE PRACTICE?
What Is Authentic, Genuine, Verifiable Practice? It’s not meditation, chanting mantras, saying prayers, waving vajras and bells, doing prostrations, listening to teachings, holding retreats, shaving your head: neither is it in flags, Buddha statues, tanka paintings, shrines, beads, cords, robes, … Continue reading
SOCIAL MEDIA, THE DOPAMINE HIT AND MINDFULNESS
Social Media, The Dopamine Hit And Mindfulness Social media gives us feedback and validation … fast! It’s what we live for, and so it actually controls us. We don’t see it, because we are in it. This is demonic intent. … Continue reading
IT’S A RELIEF WHEN IT STOPS
It’s A Relief When We Stop In the moment when we stop and sit down, we fall naturally into a deep relaxation. When we stop working, running, talking, meditating … we arrive at non-duality in that moment, just being. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
THE INFINITE IN THE INFINITE
The Infinite in the Infinite Outer infinity is only known by virtue of inner infinity. It does not matter what’s out there; it only exists because of what’s in here. If there was nothing knowing in here, what is out … Continue reading
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SENTIENT BEINGS ARE CREATURES OF HABIT
Sentient Beings Are Creatures of Habit We are creatures of addiction, dependence, craving, compulsion, fixation, enslavement; monkey-see money-do. It’s our weakness. It’s ‘what’s best for me’. We have our routine – orders from our karmic repository. Habit is our personal … Continue reading
ADDICTION
Addiction. We are all addicts. This human realm is created by desire. We find it difficult to get what we want, so we get frustrated. That leads to more desire, which leads to addiction…! The causes of addiction are the basic … Continue reading
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 