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- OUR ENEMY IS NOT OUR ENEMY March 23, 2023
- A TALENT FOR DEPENDENCY March 22, 2023
- EXPERIENCING TRAUMA MAKES US EMPATHETIC March 21, 2023
- SELF & ESSENCE March 21, 2023
- CORRUPTING CONSCIOUSNESS March 20, 2023
- DON’T FOLLOW A NAME March 20, 2023
- ARE WE CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS BEINGS? March 20, 2023
- SIMPLY BEYOND THE MIND March 20, 2023
- CONSCIOUSNESS IS SO ORDINARY March 19, 2023
- DON’T BE A ‘PERFECT MEDITATOR’ March 18, 2023
- EVERYTHING TRANSFORMS, SO NOTHING IS WASTED March 16, 2023
- BUYER BEWARE March 15, 2023
- GOD? OR NO GOD? March 14, 2023
- IF LIFE IS SELF-REPLICATING March 14, 2023
- IF YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY March 13, 2023
- THERE IS NOTHING MORE March 13, 2023
- RESOLVING OUR MIND March 13, 2023
- BARRIER TO TRANSPARENCY March 12, 2023
- THE MIND IS OUR TOOL March 12, 2023
- DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU KNOW March 11, 2023
- WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? March 10, 2023
- LIFE IS EXASPERATING March 10, 2023
- WHAT WE ARE NOW March 10, 2023
- DOGMA March 9, 2023
- EXPOSING YOUR SELF March 9, 2023
- FINDING CONFIDENCE IN OUR PATH March 8, 2023
- APPRECIATING OUR STUPIDITY March 8, 2023
- TRUTH BEYOND BELIEF March 7, 2023
- RELATIVE AND ULTIMATE SATISFACTION March 7, 2023
- BECOMING JUDGEMENTAL March 6, 2023
- SHARING KNOWLEDGE WITH DISSENTERS March 6, 2023
- PROVOKED OR CHARMED? March 6, 2023
- SANITISING THE WORLD March 6, 2023
- BELIEF REINFORCES ‘I’ March 6, 2023
- WHEN THE CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST March 6, 2023
- THEORISTS DO NOT TASTE March 6, 2023
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- SO FEW GET IT March 5, 2023
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Tag Archives: experience
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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WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF MIND ESSENCE?
What Are The Qualities Of Mind Essence? The only way we can find the answer to this is through personal questioning and experience. Someone else’s answer is hearsay and thus, only a generalisation. It is for us to experience personally. … Continue reading
SOMETIMES, THINGS DON’T SEEM RIGHT OR COMPLETE
Sometimes, Things Don’t Seem Right Or Complete This is intuition at work. Most of us ignore our natural intuition in favour of second-hand information that we project onto whatever we see. This is never a complete picture. Intuition is knowledge without conscious reasoning. It … Continue reading
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Tagged EMPATHY, experience, instinct, intuition, minor enlightenement, pure consciousness
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WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WE EXPERIENCE
We Only Know What We Experience We start with a belief:our problem lies in holding on to that belief and ignoring experience.We need to test beliefs in order to verify them. We only know what we experience. Anything else is … Continue reading
IN PRAISE OF REINCARNATION
In Praise Of Reincarnation Two views:Does such an idea do harm or is it of benefit? For most of us, reincarnation is a belief and isn’t worth considering, so we do whatever we want, with no long term feeling of … Continue reading
IF WE BELIEVE IN WORDS, WE BECOME SPELLBOUND
If We Believe In Words, We Become Spellbound Belief in words is never the truth.It is the experience of the words that brings forth realisation. Put simply:Shut up and ……. !🙂
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YOUR SELF IS YOUR TEACHER
Your Self Is Your Teacher It’s all you really have. Be happy with your self. It will teach you all you need to know about attaining the realisation of the essence of mind – consciousness. This self is our mind’s … Continue reading
IF CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALWAYS PRESENT …
If Consciousness Is Always Present … If consciousness is always present, we should always be present, because we are consciousness. Ordinary consciousness can both think and store information,but it becomes bound by that information, forgetting consciousness: it transforms into an ego-information-centre,predictable and lost … Continue reading
A FEELING ISN’T AN EMOTION
A Feeling Isn’t An Emotion (continued from yesterday) As we realise something, we realise more. ‘Feeling’ is something actually felt (an intuition) in the first moment of experience, as opposed to our ‘feelings’ that we hold on to and carry … Continue reading
LOVE IS CONFIDENCE
Love Is Confidence Confidence is complete certainty about the truth, through experience. Empathy is confidence bursting with compassion.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. In this way, Dzogchen is practical - no bells and whistles required. 