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- WE LIVE UNDER A FALSE PREMISE December 26, 2025
- THE BODY IS A VEHICLE December 25, 2025
- THEISTS ARGUE December 25, 2025
- EXTREMELY SUBTLE CONSCIOUSNESS December 25, 2025
- WHO CAN WE COMPLAIN TO? December 24, 2025
- THE COMMONALITY WE LOST December 23, 2025
- THE SINGLE PROBLEM WITH THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT December 22, 2025
- A LACK OF TRANSPARENCY December 21, 2025
- THE POINTING OUT INSTRUCTION December 20, 2025
- PRAYER DOES NOT BRING WORLD PEACE December 19, 2025
- PEOPLE ARE OUT OF CONTROL December 18, 2025
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- NEVER WAKE A SLEEPING PERSON December 18, 2025
- THE DEATH OF EGO December 18, 2025
- NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK OF CARDS December 17, 2025
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- IN PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, EVERYONE IS EQUAL December 17, 2025
- CLEARING ALL DOUBT December 17, 2025
- SPIRITUALITY IS SCIENCE December 17, 2025
- THE CHOSEN ONES December 16, 2025
- METHODS THAT REVERSE OUR REALITY December 16, 2025
- DO DHARMA PRACTITIONERS EXPERIENCE ANGER? December 15, 2025
- HOW WOULD YOU SUBJUGATE THE WORLD? December 15, 2025
- A DAILY DOSE OF DHARMA December 15, 2025
- CAUGHT IN A PARADIGM OF BELIEF December 15, 2025
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- LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT BRAIN, WHOLE BRAIN, HALF BRAIN December 14, 2025
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- IS GOD REAL OR A CONSTRUCT? December 11, 2025
- BEFORE OUR DEFAULT SETTING IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS December 11, 2025
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- REALISATION ISN’T ABOUT LEARNING December 11, 2025
- WHY WE DON’T GET IT December 10, 2025
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HOW WOULD WE KNOW IF WE WERE BRAINWASHED?
How Would We Know If We Were Brainwashed? Brainwashing is the systematic effort to adopt a particular deception, loyalty, instruction, or doctrine by bypassing a person’s will or awareness. It uses psychological techniques that manipulate the thoughts of a person or group by changing attitudes, frames of reference, beliefs and values. Does this sound familiar? Brainwashing reduces a … Continue reading
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LOOKING AT ALL SIDES
Looking At All Sides To be open-minded, we need to look at all sides, all views. Are the people who hold these views open or closed? Can they communicate, or do they just talk? To know the truth of our … Continue reading
OMNISCIENT WISDOM IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT
Omniscient Wisdom Is Our Birthright Omniscient wisdom is our birthright, but we’d rather feel clever instead. This is how evil works. So close, but so far. For this reason, it’s so important to recognise the difference between essence and the … Continue reading
THE SADNESS OF WISDOM
The Sadness Of Wisdom Once we realise our true reality, we want to help others to realise this as well. It’s quite simple; we are the spirit of pure awareness, pure consciousness, dwelling in a temporary body. Realising this answers … Continue reading
A SENSE OF PURPOSE
A Sense Of Purpose A sense of purpose isn’t something made-up or something to believe in,but a genuine understanding of function. We could start with, “May all sentient beings realise the natural happiness within,and the fixations that obscure this happiness.” Naysayers … Continue reading
WHAT IF THERE WAS NO RELIGION?
What If There Was No Religion? It’s an old question. Even if there was no religion, there would still be conscious awareness for, without that, nothing could be known. The essence of all beings is conscious awareness. Why make a … Continue reading
BE UNDERWHELMED
Be Underwhelmed Being underwhelmed, we’re not so easily impressed. When we enter a spiritual set-up which is a mixture of the religious and the academic, it feels overwhelming with its huge amount of words, beliefs and rituals … and it’s … Continue reading
MORAL CODE
Moral Code What sort of moral code do we have? One: Survival of me and mine?Two: Understanding the nature of reality for all = empathy? There are many degrees of knowing right from wrong. We have to constantly check our … Continue reading
LIFE IS A REHEARSAL
Life Is A Rehearsal To say that life isn’t a rehearsal is a ridiculous statement which could be meant to deceive, turning meaning upside-down, as if the life we are living is the only reality so we should enjoy it. … Continue reading
NEW REALISATIONS AND OLD BRAIN
New Realisations And Old Brain Some things are difficult to explain, because we’re working within an old, traumatised brain that is still running in the background even though we have had new realisations. We might be able to talk about … Continue reading
WE ARE THE ORIGIN OF EVIL
We Are The Origin Of Evil We are the origin of evil, but our actual origin is pure consciousness and compassion. These two opposites cause us inner conflict. We’re wanting answers, when we are the answer. Each of us turned … Continue reading
ANCIENT SECRETS AREN’T ANCIENT SECRETS
Ancient Secrets Aren’t Ancient Secrets The mystery is that we have lost what is natural. Knowledge and wisdom are right here, right now, and is has always been so. People make this out to be some special hocus pocus – … Continue reading
“LUCKY”
“Lucky” It is said that realised people are lucky, fortunate or blessed. They have favourable conditions to receive teachings on reality, and take them to heart – the karma that changes one’s life. Many come across these teachings, but few … Continue reading
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WHO CAN WE TRUST?
Who Can We Trust? We are all beings whose essence is enlightened, so there’s nothing special about this, but we doubt it – and that doubting makes it seem ‘special’. Some people have more experience than others in certain fields, … Continue reading
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RELIGION V SPIRITUALITY
Religion V Spirituality Religion is the form, while spirituality is the means. Although religions attempt to be spiritual, they cannot stop being hierarchical organisations where people have titles, with different ranks or positions depending on how important they are to … Continue reading
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WHEN DOGMA TAKES OVER THE HEART
When Dogma Takes Over The Heart You know what I mean … Dogma is any belief held unquestioningly and with indefensible certainty. Dogma: from ancient Greek: opinion, belief, judgement … it seems that. Heart: innermost part or essence. This is exactly where we go wrong, when we … Continue reading
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AN INTOLERANT MIND
An Intolerant Mind An intolerant mind is a small mind which jumps to conclusions and doesn’t see the wholesome picture. We all learn to have small minds as, for most of our lives, we are receivers and repeaters. But there … Continue reading
TWO ASPECTS TO MEDITATION
Two Aspects To Meditation There are two aspects to meditation, form and essence. Form is the method and ritual that becomes a way of life. Essence is the understanding and realisation of life itself. Form is something we relate to, … Continue reading
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SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AND LOSING FRIENDS
Spiritual Awakening And Losing Friends Drifting apart from friends and feeling isolated comes with spiritual awakening. We aren’t antisocial, we just see life differently as it has a purpose. Throughout history, there’ve been individuals who seek something beyond mere belief … Continue reading
COMPASSION COMES FROM CONFIDENCE
Compassion Comes From Confidence Compassion comes from confidence, and confidence comes from experience. When we lack experience, we lack empathy, and therefore we lack confidence and compassion. Confidence without experience is ignorance.
WHAT IS FREE WILL?
What Is Free Will? Free will means an unimpeded mind, without bias. The absolute condition of free will is pure consciousness. If we do not know that we are pure consciousness, we have no free will, and therefore free will … Continue reading
LOVE YOUR SELF … REALLY
Love Your Self … Really Self is a good story. Our self is an illusion, a collection of incomplete ideas acquired in the mind which cause confusion. Self is a fantasy, a mistaken gross existence in which consciousness has been … Continue reading
MEDITATION MATTERS
Meditation Matters Meditation is being aware of awareness, realising we are this awareness. It is just a moment that can be extended. Meditation uncovers natural inner peace, free from anxiety, obsessiveness and vacancy – the three poisons that affect our … Continue reading
YOU’VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE – LET GO
You’ve Heard It All Before – Let Go Let go, let go, let go … If we hold on to any idea, we suffer. As we get older, we realise that we’ve heard it all before. Life on earth isn’t … Continue reading
WE ALL WANT A COMPASSIONATE WORLD, DON’T WE?
We All Want A Compassionate World, Don’t We? We all want a compassionate world, don’t we? So why isn’t it? Extremists. Extremists want everyone to think the way they do. What is the compassionate middle way? Before we decide on … Continue reading
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WHAT IS MERIT?
What Is Merit? Om Mani Peme Hung: the mantra of compassion. Generosity, patience, morality, discipline, meditation, transcendent wisdom; the mantra of compassion. The more we gain in understanding these six perfections, the more we gain in good qualities, right understanding, … Continue reading
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EMPATHY IN COMPASSION
Empathy In Compassion Empathy in compassion saves us from ourselves. Compassion is pity, and creates pride. Empathy goes far beyond compassion. Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. Latin compassio(n-), from compati ‘suffer with’. If we ‘suffer with’, then … Continue reading
NO EMPATHY = NO COMPASSION
No Empathy = No Compassion Know empathy = know compassion. If we cannot empathise with and understand others, we cannot have compassion. We have all experienced every emotion possible, but because of pride, we hide them or ignore them. Empathy … Continue reading
FLOUNDERING IN GROUPTHINK
Floundering In Groupthink Flounder: struggle clumsily in mud or water; struggle mentally; show or feel great confusion of not knowing. Groupthink: the practice of thinking as a group, typically resulting in unchallenged, poor-quality decision making. When we adopt a way of thinking by just imitating others, we lose … Continue reading
DO NO HARM
Do No Harm To do no harm requires skill. To do good requires skill. To train the mind requires skill. Skill: Old English scele ‘knowledge’, from Old Norse skil ‘discernment, knowledge’. To do no harm, to do good and to train the mind, we need … Continue reading
A.I. IS STUPID: IT HAS NO WISDOM
A.I. Is Stupid; It Has No Wisdom Artificial Intelligence is merely a fast memory-machine referring to its programming. This is the same as humans referring to memories. A.I. is created in someone’s image. A.I. and humans are both cliché machines, … Continue reading
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FEELING GUILTY
Feeling Guilty Friction can cause heat or light. If there is no feeling of understanding or empathy, we’re in the wrong group. Communication is difficult, if not impossible. 🙂 This situation is excellent, and we have no reason to feel … Continue reading
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GONE, GONE, GONE BEYOND
Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond “Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha”. This is the ending of the Heart Sutra. What does it mean? It means pure consciousness, beyond any intellectualisation of emptiness, and any wishful hoping for emptiness. ‘Gone beyond’ is … Continue reading
NATURE ALWAYS ADAPTS
Nature Always Adapts Through the laws of the universe, nature always adapts. We are universal nature, so we can adapt. Manipulating the laws of nature brings consequences. Understanding the laws of nature is the path to enlightenment. How is this? … Continue reading
WHY ARE WE AT ODDS WITH OTHERS?
Why Are We At Odds With Others? This is a delicate subject, as it’s to do with the ability to understand. It’s not possible to be too specific here as people may misunderstand and become upset, so we’ll have to … Continue reading
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THE WISDOM OF SILENCE
The Wisdom Of Silence It doesn’t matter what we think, say or do; all that is merely conjecture – an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information. It’s old-news second-hand memories in the mind to which we constantly – and … Continue reading
THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT
The Great Disappointment Realisation is disappointing. It’s no big deal. And even though we realise what we are, a great sadness arises as others haven’t yet realised that they are pure consciousness. This is where the real work begins in … Continue reading
SPIRITUALITY CAN BE A PRISON
Spirituality Can Be A Prison Doubt imprisons us. Once we understand the principle of any activity, we are free to go away and develop it. When we get a glimpse that we are pure consciousness, meditation verifies it. If people … Continue reading
GOD? OR NO GOD?
God? No God? One should reflect on the idea of intelligent design by ‘God’ or ‘Gods’. And questions naturally arise: Why did God bother? How are we in his or their own image? Does that mean we have the very … Continue reading
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IS THERE A SCRIPT?
Is There A Script? Is there a script? Certainly: the simple laws of the universe. Those who do not know these laws live in confusion. Good and evil both have the script, the formula, the principle, according to universal laws … Continue reading
INTELLIGENT DESIGN?
Intelligent Design? Intelligent design is a belief that life, the earth and the universe are so complex that they cannot be explained by the scientific theory of evolution, and therefore must have been designed by a supernatural entity; the existence of … Continue reading
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DEMORALISED
Demoralised Demoralise: to cause someone to lose confidence. To corrupt the morals of someone to become unsure of right and wrong. The view of a neuroscientist adept: “Consciousness arises out of the brain.” The view of a spiritual adept: “Consciousness permeates the entire body.” It amounts … Continue reading
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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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COMPASSION FOR THOSE WHO ARE ‘HAPPY’
Compassion For Those Who Are ‘Happy’ Compassion for those who are ‘happy’.Empathy for those who are unhappy. Whatever influences us is down to our karmic propensity, which due to past experiences; like attracts like. If those experiences are not enlightened … Continue reading
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IS LIFE RANDOM OR PERFECTLY CO-ORDINATED?
Is Life Random Or Perfectly Co-ordinated? A leaf falls from a tree. Does it drop straight down? Conditions dictate how and where it falls. Even those conditions aren’t random – they, in turn, are created by other conditions. If we … 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
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