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Tag Archives: guilt
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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Tagged being oaf benefit, communication, compassion, criticising others, dislike, EMPATHY, groups, groupthink, guilt
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FEELING FLAT OR HEAVY?
Feeling Flat Or Heavy? There is a reason for feeling flat or heavy, and it’s fine. The same goes for every feeling we all experience. In Buddhism, there is an explanation known as the twelve links of causes and karmic … Continue reading
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Tagged causes and conditions, compassion, depression, EMPATHY, feeling flat, feelings, guilt, KARMA, morally neutral, neutral situations, nidanas, painful situations, pleasant situations, product of the past, Reactions, The Twelve Links of dependent Origination
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WE ARE CONDITIONED TO BE ADDICTED
We Are Conditioned To Be Addicted to being conditioned This is hell, and we need to wake up. In other words, we are led down someone else’s path, and we then maintain that. We have agreed to be conditioned, and … Continue reading
STOP PUSHING YOUR REPLAY BUTTON
Stop Pushing Your Replay Button We repeatedly replay the past in the present, which has an effect on the future, and so we worry and suffer. The replay button becomes an addiction. Could it be that, by replaying, we hope … Continue reading
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Tagged guilt, projecting past experiences, Pure Consciousness., the present moment
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DISCOURAGEMENT IN OUR SPIRITUAL SEARCH
Discouragement In Our Spiritual Search A loss of confidence or enthusiasm; dispiritedness. This doesn’t apply either to those at street level or to advanced practitioners; just to those of us in the middle – the half-baked! At street level, there … Continue reading
MARA IS RELIABLE
Mara Is Reliable The word ‘mara’ is a Sanskrit word for the demonic activity of selfishness in the mind, which is manifested out of ignorance of our true nature of pure compassionate awareness. Mara is expressed by our likes and … Continue reading
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