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Tag Archives: free will
WE LEARN BY OUR MISTAKES
We Learn By Our Mistakes The more mistakes we make, the more we learn from direct experience. If we think we don’t make mistakes, fitting right into everything that comes along while believing we have free will, we are living … Continue reading
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
WHEN DEVOTION TURNS INTO WORSHIP
When Devotion Turns Into Worship When devotion turns into worship and worship turns into servitude and servitude turns into dependency and dependency turns into loss of free will, we have lost the plot, the essence of pure consciousness. As long … Continue reading
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Tagged adoration, clarity, confined by concepts, depencency, DEVOTION, divine splendour, free will, pure consciousness, reverence, sacred, servitude, worship
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DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE FREE WILL?
Do We Actually Have Free Will? Free will: the ability to choose unimpededly. Choice means making a decision based on our understanding. That isn’t free will; that is doing what we want according to our personal agenda. There is, however, … Continue reading
LIVING IN REALITY, OR IN A DREAM?
Living In Reality, Or In A Dream? When we connect directly to whatever presents itself, that is reality. Object and consciousness are one. Non-duality. Seeing the moon reflected in a pool, the moon, the reflection and consciousness are simultaneously one. … Continue reading
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Tagged appearances and recognition are simultaneous, being responsilbe, connecting directly, CONSCIOUSNESS, distractions, Duality, free will, Meditation, meditation is practical, no failure, non-duality, one taste, perfect meditators, pure consciousness, REALITY, the dream, the ultimate truth
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SO WE THINK WE HAVE FREE WILL?
So We Think We Have Free Will? Free will is beyond acquired thinking. What else can it be?
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