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- THE AGE OF DECLINE – THE AGE OF NONSENSE April 18, 2026
- LOOK AT YOUR OWN MIND, RATHER THAN SOMEONE ELSE’S April 17, 2026
- THERE ARE MANY ASPECTS TO TIBETAN BUDDHISM April 16, 2026
- WHAT IS WISDOM? April 16, 2026
- THE ULTIMATE ACT OF REBELLION April 15, 2026
- AN ALIENS VIEW April 15, 2026
- PRAYER IS HOPE April 14, 2026
- COMPASSION DOESN’T MEAN WE LIKE SOMEONE April 13, 2026
- DEPRESSION SUDDENLY LIFTS April 13, 2026
- THE JOY OF MEETING IDIOTS April 13, 2026
- IT’S AMAZING April 12, 2026
- UNIFIED DIVISION – AND THE CONSEQUENCES April 11, 2026
- WE SELF CENSOR … WHY? April 10, 2026
- THE DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING WHAT IS REAL April 9, 2026
- WHY DO WE DOUBT? April 9, 2026
- IT’S A MASSIVE SHOCK April 8, 2026
- TRY NOT GETTING BACK TO ‘NORMAL’ April 8, 2026
- THE TACTIC HASN’T AGED April 7, 2026
- INTERCONNECTEDNESS – UNISON OR HARMONY? April 7, 2026
- THE CURSE OF THE MESSENGER April 6, 2026
- FIBONACCI: THE LAWS OF SURVIVAL April 5, 2026
- THE FIBONACCI EFFECT – THE GOLDEN RATIO April 5, 2026
- THE POWER OF FIBONACCI April 5, 2026
- THE FIBONACCI EFFECT April 5, 2026
- QUESTIONING TRUTH April 4, 2026
- BEYOND A SHADOW OF DOUBT April 4, 2026
- THE WONDER OF BEING A LATE DEVELOPER April 4, 2026
- 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
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Tag Archives: Knowingness
HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT IS REAL?
How Do We Know What Is Real? How do we know what is real? First, we have to start with the word ‘know’. If we cannot know, then we cannot verify anything, so the ability to know is our starting … Continue reading
HOW DO WE KNOW IF WE ARE AWAKE OR NOT?
How Do We Know If We Are Awake Or Not? Asking that question is a good start.🙂 When we are in repeat mode, we are living in the mind’s dogma, and function on a mechanical level, following a dream; certain people … Continue reading
GOOD AND EVIL = WISDOM AND IGNORANCE
Good And Evil = Wisdom And Ignorance It’s that simple. The essence of all sentient beings is pure consciousness: we’re naturally wise, but ignorant of this fact. At any moment, ignorance can dawn as wisdom, depending on the thickness of … Continue reading
COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT FOR THE UNIVERSE
Complaints Department For The Universe We all want someone to complain to!The complaints department is in our own mind. Any sentient beings one billion billion light years away in infinite space have the same problem as us – not knowing … Continue reading
THE SADDEST THING
The Saddest Thing The saddest thing is people spending their lives without knowing their true reality, and then dying. The sadness is in seeing that people are constantly engaged in entertaining their minds, filling up that precious space of pure … Continue reading
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ELIMINATING KARMA – ELIMINATING PROGRAMMING
Eliminating Karma – Eliminating Programming We’re here to free ourselves of programming, rather than adopting even more mental habits and ‘tics’. Life is not about being a consumer of others’ ideas; life is knowing what we are. It’s really shocking … Continue reading
EVIL IS THE OPPOSITE TO TRUTH
Evil Is The Opposite To Truth Evil is the opposite to truth. Truth is what is natural; evil is unnatural. Ignorance of reality causes conflict in the world, and is meant to. The world is infected with ignorance that comes … Continue reading
WE HAVE ALL WE NEED TO KNOW
We Have All We Need To Know We have all we need to know.If we feel that we don’t know but want to know,the result is eternal neediness. Being needy, we doubt and become dependent on others, not realising we … Continue reading
THE RABBIT HOLE AND DZOGCHEN
The Rabbit Hole And Dzogchen ‘Down the rabbit hole’ is a quotation from the fantasy story of “Alice In Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, where things got curiouser and curiouser. We live in such a place of illusions in our minds, … Continue reading
NO GOD, NO ENLIGHTENED BEINGS?
No God, No Enlightened Beings? What if there was no God? No Enlightened beings? After all, they are only characters in books. The books talk about miracles, but has anyone seen them happen? Our problem is that we want to … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, Belief, Enlightened beings, esoteric, exoteric, experience, God, Knowingness, Miracles, starting afresh, test it for yourself, trust seeing, what is truth
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WHEN KNOWING REALITY BECOMES A BELIEF
When Knowing Reality Becomes A Belief Belief: acceptance without proof. This is how our reality was downgraded. Belief can make us feel, do and say wonderful things, but it’s all about a material world created in the mind. Belief is … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, Belief, belief is a mind-product, EMPATHY, hope and fear, Knowingness, Mara, our true reality, pure consciousness, REALITY
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FUTILE DILIGENCE
Futile Diligence Futile diligence is addiction. Life seems purposeless, so we make a purpose. When we obsess about a subject or activity, we lose sight of our actual reality, and focus on something or someone else, making our life and … Continue reading
ARTIFICIAL AND ORIGINAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial And Original Intelligence Artificial intelligence has obscured original intelligence. While we are concerned about artificial intelligence dominating our lives, we don’t notice that we’ve already been programmed with beliefs that have been placed in our minds for thousands of … Continue reading
IS BUDDHISM ABNORMAL?
Is Buddhism Abnormal? Normal: conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected. Abnormal: deviating from what is normal, typical, or expected. We have a choice “whether to suffer the slings and arrow of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end … Continue reading
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MOST PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO KNOW
Most People Do Not Want To Know Most people do not want to know the truth of what they are as they think they know already – but we have been told whatever we think we know. It is amazing … Continue reading
KNOWINGNESS IS ALWAYS PRESENT
Knowingness Is Always Present Knowingness is always present – always has been. Whatever we do, knowingness is “at hand”. Knowingness is nothing other than consciousness. Sitting in silence, doing nothing without an inner voice chattering, just being aware, we realise … Continue reading
CONSUMERS OF CONFUSION
Consumers Of Confusion Why are we the way we are? We are all influenced from birth by the propaganda mill of confused information about any meaning to life. We’re consumers of confusion. It’s just brain-washing = nurture, plus a nature … Continue reading
WE ARE PROGRAMMED TO BE IGNORANT
We Are Programmed To Be Ignorant Our pursuit of happiness is actually the pursuit of ignorance. It’s all upside down. We are all upside down 🙂 Knowledge is neutral. The same knowledge can be used for good or for self-aggrandisement. … Continue reading
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Tagged CONSCIOUSNESS, distractions, gain and loss, harm and benefit, hidden in plain sight, Knowingness, letting og, our progamming, pure consciousness, the bad guys, the good guys, the knowledge, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of ignorance, the real secret, the secret
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BELIEF KEEPS US IN THE DARK
Belief Keeps Us In The Dark In belief, we are kept in a duality.The danger of belief is that it separates us, and is the cause of conflict. This is why the yoga of ‘one taste’ is so important: the … Continue reading
THE EXOTERIC AND THE ESOTERIC
The Exoteric And The Esoteric The exoteric lives by the words. The esoteric lives in pure perception. The exoteric lives by knowing things. The esoteric lives by knowingness. The exoteric argues. The esoteric cannot. Exoteric divides. Esoteric unites.
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WE DON’T HAVE TO BEN EXPERT TO KNOW
We Don’t Have To Be An Expert To Know We are knowingness itself. When we know that knowingness is pure perception – pure consciousness – then we know what isn’t, In that, we know everything. 🙂 “Well, I don’t know … Continue reading
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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
IGNORANCE: OBLIVIOUS TO PRIMARY EXPERIENCE
Ignorance: Oblivious To Primary Experience “So what? I’ve got things to do!” And there we have it. Instead of being, we have become. Through being ‘managed’ by karma, we fail to notice that we are being distracted … all the time because, … Continue reading
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
WE ARE NOT A SET OF IDEAS
We Are Not A Set Of Ideas It just seems that way. It is the ideas -the running programme that we carry around with us – that sets us in a quagmire of limited views of what life is all … Continue reading
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THE SHOCK OF NOT KNOWING NOW
The Shock Of Not Knowing Now If we are not in the moment now, then where are we? It takes milli-seconds* to react. And so, it takes milli-seconds to be distracted. Our spiritual progress is dependent on the time it … Continue reading
HOW TO FOOL YOURSELF
How To Fool Yourself I have to be a good meditator. I have to be Buddhist. I have to be a Dharma practitioner. I have to adopt the Tibetan culture. I have to be in a gompa/temple. I have to … Continue reading
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ONCE WE KNOW, WE CANNOT NOT KNOW
Once We Know, We Cannot Not Know Whenever we hear, read, touch, smell or taste something and understand it, we get the transmission of pointing out like a bolt of lightening. We then cannot say that we don’t know. As … Continue reading
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Tagged auspiciousness, Fear mongering, Knowingness, spiritual transmission
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THE IMPORTANCE OF IGNORANCE
The Importance of Ignorance Ignorance may be seen in two ways: ignorance and ignore-ance.When we say ignorance (nescience), we mean ‘lacking knowing’.When we say ignore-ance, we mean ‘knowing, but ignoring’. Ignorance is not knowing and ignore-ance is knowing…sounds a bit … Continue reading
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We know
We know. Our essence is clear, and our mind is clear. If our mind was not clear, we couldn’t function as a human being! So we have the potential of perfect (subtle) body, speech and mind (many of our feelings … Continue reading
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