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- IF THIS IS THE ONLY LIFE January 16, 2022
- REALISATION IS NOT ENLIGHTENMENT January 15, 2022
- IF WE WANT A BETTER WORLD January 14, 2022
- THE WORLD IS A STAGE … STAGED! January 13, 2022
- LUCIFER, THE BRINGER OF LIGHT January 13, 2022
- ARE YOU A DIFFICULT PERSON? January 12, 2022
- ONE WORD THAT DESCRIBES TWO WORLDS January 12, 2022
- STUCK IN A MIND LOOP January 11, 2022
- THE EXOTERIC AND THE ESOTERIC January 10, 2022
- THE DHARMA CAN BE THE MUD January 10, 2022
- IS THE TRUTH BEING KEPT FROM US? January 9, 2022
- I DO NOT FOLLOW ANYONE … January 9, 2022
- THE LAW OF KARMA January 9, 2022
- I ALWAYS FEEL I AM WRONG January 8, 2022
- MASS PSYCHOSIS January 7, 2022
- COMPASSION AND EMPATHY January 6, 2022
- THE BUDDHA’S TEACHING IS CATHARTIC AND CLEANSING January 5, 2022
- ALL WE DO January 5, 2022
- HOW DO WE START OUR JOURNEY TO ENLIGHTENMENT? January 4, 2022
- TWO WAYS TO DESTROY THE INDIVIDUAL SELF January 4, 2022
- NOT EVERYONE GETS IT January 1, 2022
- MAY THE LIGHT OF CONSCIOUSNESS January 1, 2022
- THE LONG CONFIDENCE TRICK ON CONSCIOUSNESS December 31, 2021
- WHAT IS BETTER THAN BEING TOLD THE TRUTH? December 30, 2021
- WHERE GROUCHO MARX WENT WRONG :-) December 30, 2021
- FEELING DULL AND STUPID? … BRILLIANT! December 29, 2021
- THE POWER OF SUGGESTION INFLUENCES BEHAVIOUR December 28, 2021
- LOOK FOR YOUR SELF December 28, 2021
- BUDDHISM AND DINOSAURS December 27, 2021
- THE ONLY PERSON YOU WILL LEARN FROM December 27, 2021
- BEGINNER MIND, DZOGCHEN MIND December 26, 2021
- IF WE ARE NOT TOLD THE TRUTH December 25, 2021
- ARRESTED, JUDGED AND CONDEMNED … Lol! December 24, 2021
- HOW DO WE KNOW WE’RE NOT LIVING IN HELL? December 23, 2021
- LIFE IS PERSONAL INVESTIGATION December 22, 2021
- APPARENT BUT EMPTY December 21, 2021
- THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT CONSCIOUSNESS December 21, 2021
- BEING AT HOME WITH OUR SELF December 19, 2021
- SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING December 19, 2021
- WHEN THE DOOR OPENS, THE LIGHT POURS IN December 18, 2021
- IN A WORLD FULL OF KNOWLEDGE, WE KNOW NOTHING December 18, 2021
- RECOGNISING OUR NATURE AS WISDOM December 16, 2021
- ONCE WE KNOW WHAT IS NATURAL December 15, 2021
- IT’S OUR IGNORANCE THAT CONTROLS THE WORLD December 15, 2021
- NATURE WILL ALWAYS WIN December 15, 2021
- STOP MEDITATING WHEN … December 14, 2021
- WHY IS REALISATION SO PRECIOUS? December 13, 2021
- ENLIGHTENMENT IS TOTAL DISENCHANTMENT December 13, 2021
- WE CAN’T PUT OTHERS RIGHT December 13, 2021
- IS THE WORLD DISHEARTENING? December 12, 2021
Tag Archives: Love
HATRED FINDS NO HOME
Hatred Finds No Home This says it all. Hatred: intense dislike.Hatred disturbs the mind:we find no peace, and no home. Home: permanent residence.The only thing permanent is our inner reality. Thing: that which has no specific name. Only through the realisationof the true … Continue reading
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LOVE IS THE MOST ADVANCED PRACTICE
Love Is The Most Advanced Practice We are not alone in our loneliness. Hiding behind a veil of fears, unsure of what we are,we dress ourselves in hopenot to be found out. Recognise this psychology:in forgetting that we are pure consciousness,we are divided … Continue reading
THE CLOAKING DEVICE
The Cloaking Device The cloaking device:my self. Our problem is that we keep forgetting to turn the bloody thing off!😀 As long as our true nature is invisible to us,love and happiness are invisible too. Underneath that cloak is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Happiness, Love, my self, OUR TRUE NATURE, under the cloak, warts and all
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HOW IS CONSCIOUSNESS, LOVE?
How Is Consciousness, Love? The great question … Of course, we love. We desire to love and be loved. Love is happiness. Our love, however, relies on whatever makes us happy, but if the thing that we love is taken … Continue reading
GOODNESS KNOWS WHY
Goodness Knows Why Why does goodness know? Goodness is naturalness, and there is nothing more natural than pure consciousness. It is our natural, essential being – the essence of knowingness itself. It’s where love, empathy and compassion come from, as … Continue reading
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Tagged calculating mind, challenging, compassion, courage, EMPATHY, ENLIGHTENMENT, essential being, fell each moment, goodness, Happiness, Love, mistakes, naturalness, practice makes purfect, precision, pure consciousness, selfless, the essence of knwingness, we are learning
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CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING BETTER?
Can You See Anything Better? We are the pure light of consciousness, the pure light of clarity. It is that which sees and can know. When we forget, ignore, aren’t bothered or become indifferent to this pure light, all that … Continue reading
BEWILDERMENT AND PANIC CREATE STRESS
Bewilderment And Panic Create Stress We may never know the cause of something, but we can see and feel the effect – stress. It doesn’t matter whether a scenario originated from ignorance or intention, we see the effects all around … Continue reading
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Tagged bewilderment, bias, calm abiding, clarity, Confusion, disease, division, fear and hope, hormones, immune system, Love, Meditation, panic, right intention, right understanding, Stress, stressed, taking sides
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DON’T BE A BUDDHIST; BE A BUDDHA
Don’t Be A Buddhist; Be A Buddha Don’t be a Buddhist; be a Buddha. Don’t be a Christian; be a Christ. If we fixate on history, we won’t realise what we are now. History is a subjective narrative. We are … Continue reading
KNOW ONE, KNOW ALL
Know One, Know All There are thousands of teachings about our reality; they all result in the realisation of non-dual, pure awareness. Without that, nothing would be known. Once realised, there is no further need for theories. Sin is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Confusion, EMPATHY, Knowledge, Love, non-duality, Pure Awareness, REALITY, Sin, teachings, the dream, theories
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WE CANNOT HAVE COMPASSION WITHOUT EMPATHY
We Cannot Have Compassion Without Empathy We cannot have compassion without empathy, and we cannot have empathy without having suffered. Love is practical rather than idealistic.
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT WE BELIEVE
It Doesn’t Matter What We Believe What we believe is not what we are. Before belief, there is the spirit of pure knowing that can discern: the openness of pure knowing is the reason we naturally love. We all love … 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
IF PHENOMENA WERE REAL
If Phenomena Were Real It takes time to get one’s head around this! If all phenomena were real, then phenomena would be permanent, andnever change. Everything would be frozen. If phenomena changes, then phenomena has no permanent reality and so, … Continue reading
OUR MENTAL HEALTH
Our Mental Heath Life is all about good mental health. With a healthy, peaceful mind, we can cope with anything. How do we get started on our quest? First, we need a question. When we’re young, we are attacked by … Continue reading
BEING SATISFIED WITH DISSATISFACTION
Being Satisfied With Dissatisfaction As we learn, we have to drop the limitations of our previous understanding. In this realisation, we can feel either uncomfortable or elated, and that determines where we go next – or whether we stay where … Continue reading
I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH
I Am Not Good Enough I’m not generous enough, patient enough, disciplined enough, or have enough concentration or knowledge. I am, in fact, defective. Should I be depressed?* The answer is NO! The point is that if we know we … Continue reading
THE POINTING OUT INSTRUCTION
The Pointing Out Instruction The pointing out of the essence of being. It’s obvious … when pointed out. It’s quite ordinary, having no special or distinctive features. It’s normal, and yet ignored at every moment, while ever-present. We all have perception, so we perceive. That … Continue reading
AWAKENING COMPASSION
Awakening Compassion means waking up to our reality. It means love … even though! When we realise our own true nature, compassion naturally arises in recognition that all sentient beings want happiness, and that this happiness is hidden from them. … Continue reading
WHY WE LOSE INNER PEACE
Why We Lose Inner Peace Doubt! And doubt kills love. Doubt makes us more critical, and we lose inner confidence, joy and…compassion. It is an imbalance of emptiness and cognisance – pure awareness – that affects our natural view of … Continue reading
THE MYSTERY OF LOVE
The Mystery Of Love Here we are talking about divine love – unconditional, ultimate love. This, of course, is Buddhahood – or God Consciousness. In devotional practice, we can get a hint of this, but it’s not an everyday occurrence. … Continue reading
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WHERE DOES LOVE ACTUALLY COME FROM?
Where does love actually come from? Love comes from joy.Joy comes from confidence.Confidence comes from knowing.Knowing comes from awareness.Awareness comes from recognisingpure essence. Love is our Nirmanakaya aspect – manifestation.Awareness is our Sambhogakaya aspect – clarity.Essence is our Dharmakaya aspect … Continue reading
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AM I THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE?
Am I the centre of the universe? When you think about it, life is all about me.We know this ‘me’ isn’t real, so, no one else’s me is real either.Are we alone with our projections? Yes and no. Relatively it’s … Continue reading
IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!
It’s not your fault! It’s not your fault, as nothing ever happened! Whatever happens to you now is not your fault: it is a product from the past. However, the past doesn’t exist, the future doesn’t exist, and the present … Continue reading
TO EGO OR NOT TO EGO?!
To ego or not to ego?! For years, I’ve had a problem with western spirituality, especially in Buddhism. When at retreats, people walk around as if ‘they’ are not there, head to one side and slightly vacant. How did we … Continue reading
HOW DO I KNOW, I KNOW?
How do I know, I know? Language plays tricks. If we remove the word ‘I’ from this question, it now asks, “How does knowing know?” We then realise that there is only knowing that knows. There is no need (or … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, compassion, Dharmakaya, emptiness, knowing, Love
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HOW NOT TO BECOME A DEMON
How not to become a demon. The core of the Mahayana teachings is Bodhichitta – the ultraistic attitude enshrined by the Four Immeasurables – Love, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity…but these aspirations are towards others. Most of our time is spent … Continue reading
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DON’T REGRET
Don’t regret. Everything that happens in life is a lesson. From lessons, we learn…or not! If we use intelligence, and recognise emotions and the value of compassion, then we will be facing in the right direction. Of course, we make … Continue reading
LIVING IN AN INSANE WORLD
Living in an insane world. Can we find sanity? Tricky. What is normality? Tricky. Well who is sane? Tricky. This is a tricky world. We sentient beings are not enlightened because we are confused about the truth concerning … Continue reading
BEAUTIFUL WORDS
Beautiful words. We may look for more truth, but we know already- the answer is very simple! Corinthians (old testament) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, … Continue reading
BUDDHA IN THE MUD. There are two truths: the real and the seemingly real. Their connection is the negative emotions. There is a secret life to the emotions; they can liberate us. 