Tag Archives: liberation

ENLIGHTENMENT ISN’T UNATTAINABLE

Enlightenment Isn’t Unattainable We might think that enlightenment is something they do over there, or back in the days of yore. 🙂 Something really special, with special powers… Well, we’ve all heard the stories! But what if it isn’t that … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

REALISING GOD THROUGH BUDDHISM

Realising God Through Buddhism 🙂 There is nothing as satisfying as finding out something personally. It’s called realisation – and it’s liberating. Buddhists do not believe in God the creator. Christians do believe in God the creator. But is there … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

THE COMING YEAR IS LIKE EVERY YEAR

The Coming Year Is Like Every Year All media plays with our imagination by creating fear and hope – and then crushes that hope with more fear. Of course, the world around us is crazy; what else can the unenlightened do? 😀 When … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

INSTITUTIONALISED

Institutionalised Institutionalised: apathetic and dependentThe formula of futile diligence; fear and false security. Through ignorance, people follow other people; we cling and stick together. By beinginstitutionalised, we stop thinking for ourself and learn the formula.  We want to be where ‘it’s’ … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING

Forgetting and Remembering Methods and Liberation The techniques and the destination There are two views of a spiritual path; one is how we travel along to get somewhere, and the other is, on having arrived, realising that there is nowhere … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

PAVLOV’S DOGS

Pavlov’s Dogs* Conditioned Reflex, Psychic Secretions, Dopamine, Addiction, Virtual Reality = Mind Hack! Exploitation of the vulnerable is demonic activity: it uses spiritual teachings to profit from human frailty, utilising the three poisons of hope, fear and indifference that govern … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

WE HAVE TO ADMIT TO BEING FOOLS …

We Have To Admit To Being Fools … before we can be masters Thinking we are already masters, we merely dress up our reality. It’s what humans do; we maintain appearances. From a spiritual point of view, this is foolish … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

LIBERATION FROM DEPENDENCY

Liberation from Dependency To be able to ‘read between the lines’ means to perceive or deduce a meaning that is hidden or  implied rather than being openly stated. ‘Independent’ is being free from outer control, not subject to another’s authority, and capable of thinking or acting for oneself. In other words, genuine liberation. We are … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

WHAT IF OUR SUFFERING WAS A BUSINESS MODEL?

What If Our Suffering Was A Business Model? “The standard technique of privatisation: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, and you hand it over to private capital.” Noam Chomsky Today in the UK, Professor Steven Hawking criticised … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

REALISATION IS LIBERATION

Realisation Is Liberation to a certain degree or level As there are many levels of realisation, so too, there are many levels of liberation. Those levels are levels of stability. We may have realised the truth – that our true … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

GROUP THINK

Group Think A group cannot free itself from the prevailing culture, so members cannot be independently-minded. Ultimately, we have to drop everything. An individual may ask, “Am I deluded?” A group will not ask, “Are we deluded?” A delusion is … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche: “Rainbow Painting”

Recognise the thought as it occurs so that it is liberated simultaneously with its arising.  This is very unlike the stream of thoughts that surges through the mind of an ordinary person. Often called ‘black diffusion,’this state is an unwholesome … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

MEDITATION-SO WHAT?!

Meditation – so what?! Meditation is not the most important thing: liberation is. It is not enough to be able to concentrate and be still, while remaining deluded. Deluded means being still caught up in the vicious cycle of seeking … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment