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- UNSTUCK September 20, 2018
- IT’S ALL WE KNOW – SO WE THINK September 19, 2018
- CALLING ON THE ENLIGHTENED ONES FROM AFAR September 18, 2018
- A TERRIFYING SHOCK September 16, 2018
- SEEING GOOD, SEEING BAD September 14, 2018
- “PLATO’S CAVE IS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!” September 13, 2018
- BEING CYNICAL September 8, 2018
- SOMETHING REALISED IS SOMETHING DESTROYED September 7, 2018
- SPIRIT IS ALWAYS FREE September 5, 2018
- BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER September 4, 2018
- WHO RULES THE WORLD? September 2, 2018
- THOUGHTS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM August 31, 2018
- WE WILL NEVER FIND REALITY OR TRUTH… August 29, 2018
- IN RIGPA, NOTHING STICKS August 28, 2018
- WHAT WOULD BE THE FINAL TEACHING? August 26, 2018
- WE NEED A SHOCK TO WAKE UP August 25, 2018
- IS GOD BUDDHIST? August 22, 2018
- ILLUMINATING DARKNESS CAN BE DEPRESSING August 22, 2018
- ANTIDOTE: A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL MEDICINE August 22, 2018
- QUIETISM August 22, 2018
- LIVING IN A BRAINWASHED WORLD August 18, 2018
- THE LAMP THAT DISPELS DARKNESS August 16, 2018
- LACK CERTAINTY, LACK IMPACT August 14, 2018
- STOP BELIEVING IN GOD TO KNOW GOD August 13, 2018
- POSITIVE DISSATISFACTION August 13, 2018
- WHAT IS MEDITATION, REALLY? August 12, 2018
- THE NEXT STEP August 11, 2018
- STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING August 10, 2018
- BODHICITTA, PARAMITAS, OM MANI PEME HUM … August 9, 2018
- THE DRAGON’S ROAR August 8, 2018
- MEDITATION DOESN’T MAKE US OBLIVIOUS August 7, 2018
- SPIRITUAL PATHS SHOULD HEAL OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL NEUROSES… August 6, 2018
- FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART 1 August 4, 2018
- FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART 2 August 4, 2018
- FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART3 August 4, 2018
- FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART 4 August 4, 2018
- HOW DO WE VALUE TRUTH? July 31, 2018
- KARMA IS OUR UNDOING! July 31, 2018
- GOD WILL COME July 28, 2018
- BIG BANG OR BIG GOD? July 25, 2018
- MIND-FULL OF EMPTINESS July 20, 2018
- WE ARE ALL UNIQUE July 18, 2018
- SEEING THE TEACHER AS THE BUDDHA July 16, 2018
- RENUNCIATION July 14, 2018
- THE POWER OF EMPTINESS July 12, 2018
- I MET THE DEVIL LAST NIGHT July 11, 2018
- LED TO BELIEVE July 9, 2018
- ‘I’ AND EGO July 9, 2018
- TOGAL IS AS NATURAL AS WE CAN BE July 8, 2018
- IF PHENOMENA WERE REAL July 6, 2018
Tag Archives: KARMA
SEEING GOOD, SEEING BAD
Seeing Good, Seeing Bad Good = beneficial Bad = harmful Both have an effect on us. Finding fault is easier than seeing good. Seeing good needs the complete picture. The complete picture is seeing both benefit and harm. In finding … Continue reading
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BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
“Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder” On a conventional, relative level, this refers to our individual taste, which is formed by our individual understanding and opinion, and will be limited. On an ultimate level, beauty is seen as … Continue reading
MIND-FULL OF EMPTINESS
Mind-Full of Emptiness This is the path to enlightenment: the complete picture. There are two aspects to complete enlightenment: one is consciousness-awareness and the other is its purity of emptiness. There are also two ways of coming to this realisation. … Continue reading
EVIL IS SUBTLE
Evil is Subtle Evil creates and reconditions our karma. We all have the potential for enlightenment, but there is a darker part of the human condition, which we could call selfishness, or ‘evil’. Evil needs a cause in order to … Continue reading
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MAKE DO AND MEND = DHARMA
Make Do And Mend = Dharma We accept (make do) whatever karma brings our way. We heal (mend) that karma by not clinging to it. This view is the enlightened attitude, and the very happiness we seek. Make do and … Continue reading
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Tagged cause and effect, Confusion, Happiness, healing, KARMA, residue, spiritual practice, the enlightened attitude
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MUNDANE AND SUPRAMUNDANE LIFE
Mundane And Supramundane Life There are two different ways of looking at life: the mundane, earthly, materialistic experience, and the supramundane experience above and beyond that. We oscillate between the two so quickly that we don’t notice the confusion, doubt … Continue reading
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Tagged Heart and Mind, KARMA, Mundane And Supramundane Life.
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HOW ARE WE UNIQUE?
How Are We Unique? We are a mixture of pure consciousness and karma. Karma is the accumulation of habitual ideas which gives rise to re-actions. We usually express ourselves through this karmic mist. This expression or manifestation isn’t unique as … Continue reading
CURLY AND THE BUDDHA
Curly And The Buddha “Do you know what the secret of life is?” “No – what?” “This.” “Your finger?” “One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else just don’t mean shiiit.” “That’s great – but what’s … Continue reading
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WHY ‘THE MOMENT NOW’ IS SO IMPORTANT
Why ‘The Moment Now’ Is So Important The guru is not the teacher. The moment now is the teacher. The guru can only tell us about the moment now. The moment now is consciousness. If we are not in the … Continue reading
SELF-KNOWING AWARENESS
Self-Knowing Awareness We are automatically (without conscious thought or attention) spontaneous awareness/ consciousness. Nothing creates this: it works by itself without human control. A human is merely consciousness that became confused and attached itself to certain ideas which, driven by karma, … Continue reading
IS DEATH TERMINAL?
Is Death Terminal? Well, life is terminal. Death going to happen, because it’s normal! It isn’t ‘normal’ to go consciously through the whole process. There are many teachings about what might happen to us after the death of the body, … Continue reading
MASTERY OVER PERCEPTION
Mastery Over Perception Mastery over perception means that we cease to react to appearances. Karma is therefore no longer reinforced, purifying samsara. And the lighter … and lighter … we feel! You can see where this is going! 😀 Karma: … Continue reading
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Tagged ENLIGHTENMENT, feeling lighter, influences on our behaviour, KARMA, karmic influences, Samsara
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WHATEVER PATH WE FOLLOW
Whatever Path We Follow Whatever path we follow, whatever we believe, whatever we think we know, it is essential to realise that pure perception is taking place, through the haze of the brain/mind’s chattering. We don’t have to recall special … Continue reading
THERE ARE A LOT OF GURUS OUT THERE
There Are A Lot Of Gurus Out There There are therefore a lot of methods Do we choose a teacher, or does a teacher choose us? If whatever happens is due to karma, then everything is timely and synchronistic, and … Continue reading
WHAT CAN WE TRUST?
What Can We Trust? Good things happen to us, bad things happen to us, horrid things happen to us: there is no escaping this fact because it’s actually happening. That is what we can trust – that things happen. What … Continue reading
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Tagged dealing with events, discomfort can be a wake up call, EMPATHY, everything is connected, going back to sleep, KARMA, labelling experiences, living the dream, neutralising our reactions, self realisation, the clarity of pure consciousness, the suffering of others, trust in seeing reactions, trusting karma
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ADOPTING A TRADITION
Adopting A Tradition Tradition: the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. This could also be called programming. Traditional, practical values of decency and compassion are important for a society, as long as this is not abused by corrupting powers: programming … Continue reading
WHAT IS KARMA, AND HOW CAN WE SEE IT?
What Is Karma, And How Can We See It? We see karma in our behaviour. Our behaviour is karma, and karma creates our behaviour. Karma is a Sanskrit word for the results of actions; the cause of an effect. Reactions … Continue reading
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THE ART OF BEING HAPPY BEING YOU
The Art Of Being Happy Being You Our spiritual path is the dissolution of our confusion regarding what we truly are. What we are is the lucid clarity that illuminates every thing perceived. That is the light. The confusion is … Continue reading
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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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Tagged aspiration, conformity, intention, KARMA, mantras, spiritual prayers
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DON’T BE SURPRISED; NOTHING IS RANDOM
Don’t Be Surprised; Nothing Is Random Everything has a cause, due to conditions. Each leaf grows and falls in a precise way, due to causes and conditions. In the autumn, leaves cannot not fall. A deluded person cannot not be … Continue reading
NO EGO, NO KARMA
No Ego, No Karma Know ego, know karma. It’s important to accept that we have to live through that which we have already created, but the effects can be reduced. Our every reaction is a product from our past, which … Continue reading
ACCEPTING OR NOT ACCEPTING REINCARNATION
Accepting or Not Accepting Reincarnation There is no argument: some believe in reincarnation while others do not. Either way, it’s a belief, and beliefs have psychological consequences. Every individual decides what life and death are all about. We may not … Continue reading
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IS OUR KARMA OUR GUIDE?
Is Our Karma Our Guide? The recognition that we are seeing through a habitual bias is an extremely subtle business: “we see through a glass darkly”. We needn’t feel guilty about this because the moment that we become aware of … Continue reading
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IT IS AS IT IS
It Is As It Is “But I don’t like it as it is!” “Sorry; our karma chose this impure realm, and according to karma, it’s perfect. The good news is that we can end karma.” “How?” “By accepting everything as … Continue reading
SAMSARA IS NOT OUT THERE
Samsara Is Not Out There Some aspects of the teachings take time to assimilate. First, we need the right attitude to receive teachings: without this, we are merely picking up information for the head to toy with, rather than realising … Continue reading
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Tagged John Lennon, KARMA, Precious Dharma teachings, SAMASARA, sentimentality
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WHY ACT WITH VIRTUE?
Why Act With Virtue? The Buddha said, “Do good. Do no harm. Tame the mind.” What is ‘doing good’? What is ‘virtue’? It is a sympathetic understanding of cause and effect. A simple sentence can have a whole load of … Continue reading
INNER PEACE
Inner peace Inner peace comes through recognition of the nature of mind. The nature of mind is clarity; pure uncontaminated view. The continuity of pure view is stability in inner peace. Life and karma unwind through relaxed inner peace. In … Continue reading
FANCY A TRIP TO DEWACHEN?
Fancy a trip to Dewachen? First, we must step out of our chain of cyclic reactions. If we wish for higher realms such as Dewachen – the realm of infinite joy and happiness – we must break this vicious cycle … Continue reading
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A SYMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING
A Sympathetic Understanding When we have a sympathetic understandingof causes and effects (karma),we becomethe lord of compassion. Since beginningless timebeings have endured unbearable sufferingdue to mis-understanding. When we have a sympathetic understandingof causes and effects (karma),we evolve,never to return to … Continue reading
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DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR, BIRTH OF THE NEW
Death of the old year, birth of the new We are coming up to the end of the year. How are you? Is there a looseness in the ego? Is the ego clinging less to fixated ideas.Do you feel more … Continue reading
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MEDITATION IS LIKE WATCHING A FILM
Meditation is like watching a film. For a film to be projected it needs,a film, light and a screen. The light is our essence.The film is the projection of our karma, our storehouse of reactions.The screen is the phenomenal worldonto … Continue reading
PLAYING WITH EGO
Playing with ego. Essence, seeing its reflection through the reactions of emotions, believes that to be itself, and clings to this view. This is the creation of a duality. So, there are two of us: one is real, and the … Continue reading
JUGGLING KARMA
Juggling karma. Karma is seen in our behaviour.Every reaction is a productof previous reactions.Every reaction will be the causeof future reactions.We are juggling our behaviour. This juggling is done within empty space.So much so, that we do not notice the … Continue reading
BREAKING THE PROGRAMMING
Breaking the programming. From childhood, we are bombarded with subtle traumas, even in game play and interactions. Every time we react, this increases our karma. Karma is the result, or imprint, left in the mind, due to our fixations, … Continue reading
A WORD OF WARNING
A word of warning. Padmasambhava said, “Though your view is higher than the sky, keep your deeds finer than barley flour.” He is talking about receiving exalted teachings on the view, but not caring about our conduct. As Tulku Urgyen … Continue reading
LOOKING FOR A HIGHER SELF
Looking for a Higher Self. The truth is at the beginning, middle and the end. There are many levels, each using the same words, but the meaning changes – perception refines – the cloud clears. Truth shines though all the … Continue reading
WHY DO THINGS HAPPEN?
Why do things happen? Do things just happen? Are they created by causes and conditions? Or do things happen by design? Buddhism says, everything is created by causes and conditions: everything depends on something else. Our present moment of self-identification … Continue reading
FUTILE DILIGENCE CREATES KARMA
Futile diligence creates karma. The more we concentrate, the more we can concentrate. The more we can concentrate, the more we can focus. The more we can focus, the more we are aware. The more we are aware, the … Continue reading
KARMA IS GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES
Karma is going round in circles. (What goes around, comes around) Do your re-actions get the same re-actions from others? If so, this is karma at work. Most of the time, we don’t notice our particular (and peculiar!) pattern of … Continue reading
