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Tag Archives: cause and effect
TEACHINGS ARE EVERYWHERE
Teachings Are Everywhere Inner peace in contrast to inner reaction. Every time anyone speaks, it’s a teaching.How?People reflect the misinformation taught to them. Every time we react to someone speaking, it’s a teaching.How?We lose our inner peace. Everywhere, we see … Continue reading
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DELAY CAUSES CHAOS AND SUFFERING
Delay Causes Chaos And Suffering This is cause and effect. Delay: to make something late or slow, to procrastinate, to create a hindrance. When governments delay actions, they store up suffering for the future. Everyone knows this. When we delay … Continue reading
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WHO OR WHAT CREATED SELF?
Who Or What Created Self? Who or what created self? God? Chemicals? Karma? The creationists and the evolutionists present obvious arguments. There is another possibility, but it won’t suit everyone. What created this moment of us being here? The previous … Continue reading
EVERYTHING IS APPROPRIATE
Everything Is Appropriate Karma is perfect. The law of cause and effect is perfect. Perfect ignorance, perfect karma. Perfect wisdom, perfect karma. “This is perfect, that is perfect. Perfect comes from perfect. When perfect is taken from perfect, perfect still … Continue reading
GOOD AND EVIL
Good And Evil As we refine our understanding, we see more subtle demonic activity in the world. Demonic or evil activity is anything that intentionally causes harm to the body, speech or mind of sentient beings, limiting that understanding. If … Continue reading
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EMPATHETIC ENTITIES
Empathetic Entities Entity: from late Latin ens, ent- ‘being’ – (intelligent)Being: essence of a person.Essence of person: pure consciousness. Words may stir consciousness, but it is the spacious acknowledgement behind the words that illumines consciousness. There are qualities within a person that express truth without words. … Continue reading
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Tagged cause and effect, choices, compassion, EMPATHY, entities, ESSENCE, habitual behaviour, KARMA, karmic propensities, our view, pure being, pure consciousness
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MAKE DO AND MEND = DHARMA
Make Do And Mend = Dharma We accept (make do) whatever karma brings our way. We heal (mend) that karma by not clinging to it. This view is the enlightened attitude, and the very happiness we seek. Make do and … Continue reading
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WHY ACT WITH VIRTUE?
Why Act With Virtue? The Buddha said, “Do good. Do no harm. Tame the mind.” What is ‘doing good’? What is ‘virtue’? It is a sympathetic understanding of cause and effect. A simple sentence can have a whole load of … Continue reading
A SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING
A Sympathetic Understanding When we have a sympathetic understandingof causes and effects (karma),we becomethe lord of compassion. Since beginningless timebeings have endured unbearable sufferingdue to mis-understanding. When we have a sympathetic understandingof causes and effects (karma),we evolve,never to return to … Continue reading
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