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- WISDOM IS USELESS UNLESS IT IS PRACTISED September 13, 2026
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- MOST PEOPLE LIVE IN THE PAST September 11, 2026
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- IN EMPTINESS, WORDS ARE JUST NOISE September 11, 2026
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- REALISING SOMETHING IS WRONG September 10, 2026
- WORDS FILL OUR MIND September 10, 2026
- UNBLOCKING ENLIGHTENMENT September 10, 2026
- UNDOING PRIDE September 10, 2026
- HOW LONG DOES AN EMOTION LAST? September 9, 2026
- PRESERVING INNER PEACE September 8, 2026
- SPIRITUAL DECONSTRUCTION September 8, 2026
- HOW CAN WE GO FORWARD…? September 7, 2026
- WORDS ARE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE September 6, 2026
- SOCIAL GROOMING September 5, 2026
- STOP LOOKING: JUST SEE, HEAR … September 5, 2026
- OUR OLD BRAIN – OUR OLD JAILER September 4, 2026
- WHY DO WE WORSHIP MYSTERIES? September 3, 2026
- SEEKING NON-DUALITY IS DUALITY September 2, 2026
- OUR REALITY IS BEYOND WORDS September 2, 2026
- CONSCIOUSNESS EMBODIED IN A BIOLOGICAL APPARATUS September 1, 2026
- THE ILLUSION OF THE BLUEPRINT August 31, 2026
- DO WE FEEL SAFE IN A GROUP? August 30, 2026
- FIXATION IS ADDICTION August 29, 2026
- HOW WE IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING August 29, 2026
- BEING YOUR SELF August 29, 2026
- THE ART OF LIFE August 28, 2026
- WORLD BRAIN FOG August 27, 2026
- THINKING WE HAVE TO BE ACHIEVERS August 27, 2026
- AN UNUSUAL POINTING OUR INSTRUCTION August 26, 2026
- THE NATURE OF MIND AND THE ESSENCE OF MIND August 26, 2026
- A BLESSING IS ENCOURAGEMENT August 26, 2026
- WHERE IT’S AT August 25, 2026
- SELF-AWARE OR SELF-CONSCIOUS? August 24, 2026
- INTERRUPTING THE DREAM August 24, 2026
- PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEITHER RIGHT NOR WRONG August 24, 2026
- OUR HABITS ARE HARD TO DROP August 24, 2026
- TESTING THE TEACHER August 23, 2026
- WORDS ARE THE VEHICLES OF ILLUSION August 22, 2026
- DON’T WORRY ABOUT REINCARNATION August 21, 2026
- OUR DEFAULT SETTING August 21, 2026
- TWO AUDIENCES – CREATORS AND POPULACE August 20, 2026
- THE BUDDHA AND THE PUDDING August 19, 2026
- MEDITATION IS NOT ENOUGH August 19, 2026
- GENUINELY NOT FITTING IN August 18, 2026
- ANALYSING OUR LIFE August 17, 2026
- WHY TALK ABOUT THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF LIFE? August 17, 2026
Tag Archives: conformity
WHY DO WE FEEL WRONG?
Why Do We Feel Wrong? Why do we feel wrong?Social pressure to conform, to look right:“Do I have to be like them?” We can feel wrong because of social pressure when we find we’re in conflict between personal direct experience, … Continue reading
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
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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
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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
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