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- QUESTIONING TRUTH April 4, 2026
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- WOUND MEANS SUFFERING April 4, 2026
- PREDICTABLE SUFFERING April 4, 2026
- NATURE (BUDDHA-NATURE) VERSUS NURTURE (MARA-NATURE) April 3, 2026
- BEING BUDDHIST IS BEING ORDINARY April 2, 2026
- A LUCKY ESCAPE April 1, 2026
- SUDDENLY NOT FEELING WRONG April 1, 2026
- REALISATION COMES FROM DROPPING THE MEDITATION March 31, 2026
- WE CANNOT NOT COMMUNICATE March 30, 2026
- WE’VE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERED March 30, 2026
- WHAT IS OUR ULTIMATE REALITY? March 29, 2026
- OUR COLLECTIVE PROBLEM March 28, 2026
- IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD March 27, 2026
- WHEN NEWS IS PROPAGANDA March 27, 2026
- IMPURE CONSCIOUSNESS AND PURE CONSCIOUSNESS March 26, 2026
- WHY DOES BUDDHISM GO ON ABOUT SUFFERING? March 25, 2026
- UN-REINFORCING THE I March 24, 2026
- “THE ODDS ARE STACKED AGAINST US” March 24, 2026
- DO YOU FEEL MONACHOPSIS? March 23, 2026
- ONE LIGHT OR MANY LIGHTS? March 23, 2026
- WHAT IS OUR COMMON GROUND? March 23, 2026
- DON’T LET DAMAGE CONTROL YOUR LIFE March 23, 2026
- BE THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY March 22, 2026
- BELIEVING AND DEBUNKING March 22, 2026
- THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS March 21, 2026
- GROUPS ARE CONFORMITY March 21, 2026
- PRACTICAL PRACTICE TO PRACTISE March 21, 2026
- WHO BENEFITS FROM CHAOS? March 20, 2026
- IS THERE A HIERACHY ON EARTH? March 20, 2026
- WORLD EVENTS CHANGE OUR THINKING March 20, 2026
- THE ANSWER TO LIFE March 19, 2026
- SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM March 18, 2026
- EVIL TRANSFORMS INTO WISDOM March 18, 2026
- THE COMFORTABLE DECEPTION March 18, 2026
- IT’S AN ANCIENT TRICK March 18, 2026
- WHAT ARE MORALS? March 17, 2026
- A POSITIVE OUTLOOK March 16, 2026
- REGRETS ARE MEMORIES March 16, 2026
- THE TWO VEILS OF UNHAPPINESS March 15, 2026
- WHAT IS SUCCESS? March 15, 2026
- KARMA IS OUR MANUAL FOR LIFE March 15, 2026
- DZOGCHEN March 14, 2026
- WE ALL GIVE OFF SIGNALS March 14, 2026
- INSTITUTIONAL INSANITY March 14, 2026
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- WE INHERIT MEMORIES March 13, 2026
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Tag Archives: KARMA
THE DIS-EASE OF IGNORANCE
The Dis-Ease Of Ignorance When we don’t ignore the truth of our reality which is pure consciousness, we gain confidence, perfectly at ease with whatever happens. We know we’re not going to change people who ignore their reality, but we … Continue reading
WHY ARE WE AT ODDS WITH OTHERS?
Why Are We At Odds With Others? This is a delicate subject, as it’s to do with the ability to understand. It’s not possible to be too specific here as people may misunderstand and become upset, so we’ll have to … Continue reading
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Tagged attitude, compassion, discipline, Dzogchen, inferior, KARMA, middling, realisation, study and practice, superior
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ENLIGHTENMENT: WAITING TO BE RECOGNISED
Enlightenment: Waiting To Be Recognised The very essence of consciousness is enlightened. It is unsullied emptiness, and all we have to do is recognise this without any distraction … forever. So why aren’t we all enlightened? Put simply, we like distractions, … Continue reading
YOUR KARMA IS UNIQUE
Your Karma Is Unique Your karma is unique; this is why we shouldn’t follow anyone else’s karma/ways. Gurus lump us altogether under their system, and that can never work as we become a copy, an imitation. We can learn everything … Continue reading
ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL
One Size Doesn’t Fit All The ultimate truth is our essential nature of pure consciousness. It is how we can know anything and everything. There is absolutely no point in believing in the existence of an external reality if there … Continue reading
CONTROLLING EVENTS
Controlling Events Controlled events turn us into enabling-belief-machines. As long as the majority adopt the narrative, it works. It’s worked throughout history, and it just continues. If it looks out of control, it’s not. The adoption of collective karma controls … Continue reading
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BODGING DHARMA
Bodging Dharma Bodging Dharma is Perfect Dharma. Bodging refers to anything done of necessity using whatever tools and materials come to hand and which, whilst not necessarily elegant, is nevertheless serviceable (the term ‘bodging’ actually comes from travelling chair makers who … Continue reading
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Tagged bodging, bodging Dharma, KARMA, our perfect teacher, perfect Dharma, practical Dharma
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HOW TO MEDITATE WITHOUT MEDITATING
How To Meditate Without Meditating Just be aware of awareness in everything that you do and think, and equilibrium falls into place. In this way, we do not lose consciousness. 🙂 Gradually, karma (the result of previous actions and reactions) … Continue reading
THERE IS A MANUAL FOR LIFE
There Is A Manual For Life It’s quite short; it’s karma. ‘Karma’ is just a word for the effect of previous actions that causes our habitual reactions now. This manual is our teacher, instructing us how to eliminate karma through … Continue reading
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Tagged a working manual, Compassionate activity, eliminating karma, esoteric, exoteric, habitual reactions, KARMA, karma is our instructor, karmic ledge, our attitude, personal karma, previous actions, pure consciousness, reducing the level of doubt, the levels of realisation, the manual for life, The path to enlightenment
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WHY THIS BLOG ISN’T PUBLICISED
Why This Blog Isn’t Publicised ‘Dzogchen’ is Tibetan for pure consciousness – we are Dzogchen. Dzogchen isn’t exactly a secret, but it can be easily misunderstood. Those who find their way here do so through serendipity or karma. You don’t … Continue reading
IF LIFE IS SELF-REPLICATING
If Life Is Self-Replicating If life is self-replicating, what is the need for a creator? Was there a start to this self-replicating, or has it being happening forever, in an infinite universe? Life is consciousness, but if consciousness mistakes creation … Continue reading
KARMA IS COGNITIVE BIAS
Karma Is Cognitive Bias Karma is cognitive bias: more of the same, “recommended for you” by your echo chamber. In body, speech and mind, our lives become formulaic, and that reinforces attitude and behaviour. We conform to a type, creating … Continue reading
KARMA IS NOT FATE
Karma Is Not Fate Fate: that which has been spoken, making it inevitable that something will happen. Karma: the sum of a person’s previous actions, either beneficial or harmful. Fate suggests that results cannot be changed. Karma suggests that the result can … Continue reading
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Tagged Confusion, ENLIGHTENMENT, fate, inevitable, KARMA, levels of understanding, negative person, positive person, realisation, sum of actions
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WHO OR WHAT CREATED SELF?
Who Or What Created Self? Who or what created self? God? Chemicals? Karma? The creationists and the evolutionists present obvious arguments. There is another possibility, but it won’t suit everyone. What created this moment of us being here? The previous … Continue reading
IS LIFE A PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST?
Is Life A Psychological Test? It’s certainly challenging. What is life to us? Is it a play-house of beliefs or is it a system for a deeper understanding of the nature of reality? Is life all about people mimicking one … Continue reading
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Tagged are we safe?, challenges become inspirational, fear, FITTING IN, KARMA, LIFE IS A EST, life is challenging, our compassion pure reality, our habitual fixations, play-life, pure consiousness, the karma-challenge, the karmic play-house, we are consciousness, WE MIMCK ONE ANOTHER
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ENERGY & CONSCIOUSNESS ARE NEVER DESTROYED
Energy & Consciousness Are Never Destroyed Energy and consciousness are never destroyed: they merely change form. What is the energy that drives the body and mind? Consciousness. Throughout our lives, consciousness has never changed, but the karmic energy – which … Continue reading
WHY I WRITE A BLOG
Why I Write A Blog Life is about getting to the point of why we are here, staying with that point, and seeing how that point refines through experience. We cannot assume that, by just reading or hearing teaching, we … Continue reading
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MAKING THE MOST OF OURSELF
Making The Most Of Ourself Our ‘self’ is an idea in the mind held together by memories to which consciousness clings. These memories are karma: this karma causes us confusion as we think it’s our reality, while feeling there is … Continue reading
BEING AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE DOING
Being Aware Of What We Are Doing Mindfulness; the precursor to realisation. Mindfulness: Intention to cultivate awareness, returning to it again and again. Attention to what is occurring in the present moment, simply observing thoughts, feelings and sensations as they … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, attitude, Awareness, Being aware, CONSCIOUSNESS, intention, KARMA, mindfulness, non-judgemental, pure consciousness, remember
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THE PROOF OF REINCARNATION
The Proof Of Reincarnation It stands to reason, but not for everyone. 🙂 From big bangs, nebula / stardust forms to give rise to the next solar system, creating all phenomena – even our bodies. All phenomena eventually gives up … Continue reading
EVERYTHING IS APPROPRIATE
Everything Is Appropriate Karma is perfect. The law of cause and effect is perfect. Perfect ignorance, perfect karma. Perfect wisdom, perfect karma. “This is perfect, that is perfect. Perfect comes from perfect. When perfect is taken from perfect, perfect still … Continue reading
WHEN WE COME TO OUR SENSES
When We Come To Our Senses When we come to our senses, no thought is present in that moment; that is pure awareness. When thoughts arise, all we have to do is become aware of one or other of the … Continue reading
HOW PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NATURAL
How Pure Consciousness Is Natural While just perceiving through the senses, no thought is present. We might assume that, because we are seeing objects and events, thought is present. Not so. Being aware of just seeing is pure consciousness. No … Continue reading
EVERYONE HAS AN ASSIGNMENT
Everyone Has An Assignment Everyone has an assignment … if we choose to accept it. Everyone has a divine (not religious) mission in life, an assignment to realise what we ultimately are, which is pure consciousness, rather than the mundane … Continue reading
DOES THE PAST EXIST NOW?
Does The Past Exist Now? Yes – through our karma. ‘Karma’ is a Sanskrit word for the residue of past actions lodged in our mind that creates our habitual re-enactments such as, “There ‘I’ go again”. This is why most … Continue reading
LETTING GO OF THE PAST
Letting Go Of The Past If we hang on to the past, nothing fresh will occur, and we will never break out of our karmic bubble. Bubbles can easily be burst, so we steer clear of anything that might seem … Continue reading
DECEIVED BY OMISSION
Deceived By Omission Deception initiates a complicated cascade of confusion; a social domino effect that feeds our karma. How? Razzamatazz = Razzle-dazzle = show business: a media that deliberately inflates ambiguous language which omits original truth. We are so involved … Continue reading
VERIFICATION
Verification We may wonder, “Am I doing the right thing?”. If we wait for verification from someone else, we become reliant on their judgement, and that isn’t verification. Who are we trying to impress? There is something in life/the universe/karma … Continue reading
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THROUGH REALISATION, NEGATIVITY TURNS POSITIVE
Through Realisation, Negativity Turns Positive Negativity is inspirational. When we know something is wrong, it’s positive. If we ignore what is wrong, we only create more negativity. The same goes for trying to be positive about everything; it’s a cover-up. … Continue reading
LIFE IS GREAT THE WAY IT IS
Life Is Great The Way It Is That’s a strange thing to say, when the world view is not based on truth, but on beliefs. Truth is like space; many things can happen within it, but space remains exactly the … Continue reading
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WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE
We Are All Going To Die 😀 Death is inevitable. Each moment dies for the next moment to occur. Each moment has an effect on the next moment. What we did previously has an effect on what we are doing … Continue reading
KARMA IS BEING ACCOUNTABLE
Karma Is Being Accountable We are accountable for every action (being occupied) or inaction (being vacant). This adds to our karma. Our karma creates situations that are favourable (we like) or unfavourable (we dislike). To a practitioner, neither type of situation … Continue reading
STUCK IN A MIND LOOP
Stuck In a Mind Loop Ever feel like you’re treading water, responding to life in the same way all the time? Instead of remaining in pure perception, consciousness becomes corrupted or distracted and, via the senses, information goes straight to … Continue reading
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Tagged Confusion, individual confusion, judgement, KARMA, memory, our individual path, PURE PERCEPTION, religion, Trauma, trauma is our teacher
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WE HAVE NEVER BEEN SEPARATED
We Have Never Been Separated We have never been separated from the enlightened state. Few see this, looking elsewhere for happiness. Realisation of our true nature isn’t something to achieve. It is merely washing away the doubt and confusion of … Continue reading
TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR SELF
Take A Look At Your Self This self isn’t bad or demonic; it is just a collection of ideas that we mistake for our being. The demonic aspect of self arises when we express these ideas that can cause harm, … Continue reading
INSIGHT
Insight Nothing just happens; everything comes about due to a cause. A misunderstanding of this puts insight to sleep. Insight is recognition, and starts with a feeling that something is ‘not quite right’ – a tell-tale sign, a sound in … Continue reading
WHY DO I WRITE EVERY DAY?
Why Do I Write Every Day? Is there too much on my mind? No; it’s the same as everyone else’s. The mind merely responds to whatever karma presents and, if karma is our teacher, there is much to see. Every … Continue reading
WE ARE ALL DEFAULTERS
We Are All Defaulters Defaulter: a person who fails to fulfil a duty, obligation, or undertaking. According to spiritual teachings, we are primordial purity. We are beings of pure presence, and our obligation is to realise this true nature for the benefit of all sentient beings. When we failed … Continue reading
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DO WE LIVE IN TRUTH OR JUDGEMENT?
Do We Live In Truth Or Judgement? The truth is that consciousness comes before a judgement.Consciousness is our origin, and does not take sides.Taking sides means judgement. Whatever happens to us is due to our judgements, and creates karma.What sees … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, CONSCIOUSNESS, judgement, KARMA, our origin, pure consciousness, taking sides, truth
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MEDITATING, AND NOTHING HAPPENS?
Meditating, And Nothing Happens? Aware that nothing happens in meditation, we have arrived at our true being, pure awareness. The truth is this simple, and that is precisely why we miss it. Occurrence that appear in the mind are merely … Continue reading
SPIRITUAL MERIT
Spiritual Merit Merit creates our karma, our life and our future life. All our thoughts, actions and reactions in this moment now are products of our past. Merit is the blueprint for the next incarnation – the next moment. Positive … Continue reading
SEGREGATION TURNS PEOPLE AGAINST PEOPLE
Segregation Turns People Against People The same theme is repeated throughout history; divide and conquer. Different names are used to confuse us: separation, setting apart, sorting out, isolation, quarantine, exclusion, protection, shielding, partitioning, division, apartheid, ghettos … all in the name of creating an adversary … Continue reading
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BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 