-
Join 505 other subscribers
-
Archives
- WHY DO WE PREFER STORIES TO DIRECT EXPERIENCE? April 20, 2026
- ARE WE A LIFESTYLE, OR LIFE ITSELF? April 19, 2026
- THE AGE OF DECLINE – THE AGE OF NONSENSE April 18, 2026
- LOOK AT YOUR OWN MIND, RATHER THAN SOMEONE ELSE’S April 17, 2026
- THERE ARE MANY ASPECTS TO TIBETAN BUDDHISM April 16, 2026
- WHAT IS WISDOM? April 16, 2026
- THE ULTIMATE ACT OF REBELLION April 15, 2026
- AN ALIENS VIEW April 15, 2026
- PRAYER IS HOPE April 14, 2026
- COMPASSION DOESN’T MEAN WE LIKE SOMEONE April 13, 2026
- DEPRESSION SUDDENLY LIFTS April 13, 2026
- THE JOY OF MEETING IDIOTS April 13, 2026
- IT’S AMAZING April 12, 2026
- UNIFIED DIVISION – AND THE CONSEQUENCES April 11, 2026
- WE SELF CENSOR … WHY? April 10, 2026
- THE DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING WHAT IS REAL April 9, 2026
- WHY DO WE DOUBT? April 9, 2026
- IT’S A MASSIVE SHOCK April 8, 2026
- TRY NOT GETTING BACK TO ‘NORMAL’ April 8, 2026
- THE TACTIC HASN’T AGED April 7, 2026
- INTERCONNECTEDNESS – UNISON OR HARMONY? April 7, 2026
- THE CURSE OF THE MESSENGER April 6, 2026
- FIBONACCI: THE LAWS OF SURVIVAL April 5, 2026
- THE FIBONACCI EFFECT – THE GOLDEN RATIO April 5, 2026
- THE POWER OF FIBONACCI April 5, 2026
- THE FIBONACCI EFFECT April 5, 2026
- QUESTIONING TRUTH April 4, 2026
- BEYOND A SHADOW OF DOUBT April 4, 2026
- THE WONDER OF BEING A LATE DEVELOPER April 4, 2026
- WOUND MEANS SUFFERING April 4, 2026
- PREDICTABLE SUFFERING April 4, 2026
- NATURE (BUDDHA-NATURE) VERSUS NURTURE (MARA-NATURE) April 3, 2026
- BEING BUDDHIST IS BEING ORDINARY April 2, 2026
- A LUCKY ESCAPE April 1, 2026
- SUDDENLY NOT FEELING WRONG April 1, 2026
- REALISATION COMES FROM DROPPING THE MEDITATION March 31, 2026
- WE CANNOT NOT COMMUNICATE March 30, 2026
- WE’VE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERED March 30, 2026
- WHAT IS OUR ULTIMATE REALITY? March 29, 2026
- OUR COLLECTIVE PROBLEM March 28, 2026
- IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD March 27, 2026
- WHEN NEWS IS PROPAGANDA March 27, 2026
- IMPURE CONSCIOUSNESS AND PURE CONSCIOUSNESS March 26, 2026
- WHY DOES BUDDHISM GO ON ABOUT SUFFERING? March 25, 2026
- UN-REINFORCING THE I March 24, 2026
- “THE ODDS ARE STACKED AGAINST US” March 24, 2026
- DO YOU FEEL MONACHOPSIS? March 23, 2026
- ONE LIGHT OR MANY LIGHTS? March 23, 2026
- WHAT IS OUR COMMON GROUND? March 23, 2026
- DON’T LET DAMAGE CONTROL YOUR LIFE March 23, 2026
Tag Archives: conformity
CLONING: CONTROL BELIEF, CONTROL REALITY
Cloning: Control Belief, Control Humanity Belief is the powerful mechanism by which ideas clone themselves into new and impressionable hosts. Shared belief is human cloning. Indoctrination strips away individuality, and the original reality of pure consciousness is ignored. When everyone … Continue reading
IT TAKES A CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE TO REALISE THE TRUTH
It Takes A Contemplative Life To Realise The Truth We cannot realise our true essence or compassion from a book or a chat. Realisation is difficult to talk about as people usually want an immediate answer. Much depends on the … Continue reading
JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS
Just Following Orders Just following orders is just following words, which is the lowest form of intelligence, as we feel we’re immune from having to take responsibility. The result is the dark history of the world through the adoption of … Continue reading
WORSE THAN GROUPTHINK? GROUPFEEL
Worse Than Groupthink? Groupfeel Groupthink is people accepting the same set of ideas, and voicing them in the same way. Groupfeel is when these ideas go deeper and infect attitudes, causing subtle emotions; the result is that each individual learns … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged conformity, discouraging free thinking, emotions, fears, groupfeel, groupthink, insecurity
Leave a comment
WE CONFORM BECAUSE WE FEAR
We Conform Because We Fear The more we fear, the more we accept authority,and the more we become dependent. We want to belong to something or someone because we lack confidence in our own powerand thus, we give it away. Don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged conformity, dependency, fear, lacking confidence, wanting to belong
2 Comments
IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
Is That All There Is? If we believe we are our thoughts, that is all there is to life. If we realise we are pure consciousness, that is all there is to life. Belief limits our potential, and sets the … Continue reading
BELIEF: THE SATANIC PLOT
Belief: The Satanic Plot Being told to believe turns us aside from truth. How is that satanic? The answer is that belief obscures knowing and promotes a false view. Satan: Hebrew śāṭān, literally ‘adversary’, from śāṭan ‘plot against’. Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in the Abrahamic … Continue reading
LIVING IN A BRAINWASHED WORLD
Living In A Brainwashed World (by consent) To wake up to reality, we first have to clear our minds of all the opinions and fixed ideas that we have collected and hold on to. We must acknowledge that these ideas … Continue reading
THE INSIDIOUS SIDE OF ONENESS
The Insidious Side Of Oneness ‘Insidious’ means to ambush, to lie in wait, to proceed cunningly in a gradual, subtle way, with harmful effects. Here, ‘oneness’ means not being different from the rest, not being an individual. Our reactions are … Continue reading
ROUTINE RECITATIONS AND KARMA
Routine Recitations and Karma Karma is the personal programming in our mind that affects our behaviour: it is the result of previous actions, which creates reactions. It’s how habits are formed. Whatever happens in the mind affects the brain, in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged aspiration, conformity, intention, KARMA, mantras, spiritual prayers
1 Comment
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. 