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- REALISATION STRINKS THE NEED FOR MANY WORDS January 6, 2026
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- THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE THREE WISDOMS AND THE THREE POISONS January 5, 2026
- SPIRITUAL DECEPTION January 5, 2026
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- WHY DO CUT OURSELVES OFF FROM OTHERS? January 5, 2026
- WHAT IS KARMA? January 4, 2026
- WHEN WILL WE SEE THE END OF EVIL? January 3, 2026
- SAMSARA IS HELL – SAMSARA IS HEAVEN January 3, 2026
- THE GIFT OF DOUBT January 2, 2026
- GO ORDINARY January 1, 2026
- MAKING A CULTURE AND REPLACING A CULTURE January 1, 2026
- BEING DISILLUSIONED December 31, 2025
- WISDOM IS SHARING ONE’S INNER PEACE December 31, 2025
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- THE BODY IS A VEHICLE December 25, 2025
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- EXTREMELY SUBTLE CONSCIOUSNESS December 25, 2025
- WHO CAN WE COMPLAIN TO? December 24, 2025
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- IN PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, EVERYONE IS EQUAL December 17, 2025
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Tag Archives: Meditation
HOW WOULD WE KNOW IF WE WERE BRAINWASHED?
How Would We Know If We Were Brainwashed? Brainwashing is the systematic effort to adopt a particular deception, loyalty, instruction, or doctrine by bypassing a person’s will or awareness. It uses psychological techniques that manipulate the thoughts of a person or group by changing attitudes, frames of reference, beliefs and values. Does this sound familiar? Brainwashing reduces a … Continue reading
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REACTING ISN’T THINKING
Reacting Isn’t Thinking When we react to something, this is our habitual routine, our programming. It’s what makes us a type, and therefore predictable. This is what surveillance monitors. Are we going through our routine, or have we deviated? When … Continue reading
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE MEDITATE?
What Happens When We Meditate? When we meditate, we become less opinionated; we are consciously aware and compassionate = spontaneous. When we don’t meditate, we become opinionated; we are confused, and lack compassion = habituated. Compassion is wisdom-clarity; we’re not … Continue reading
MEDITATION IS HANGING LOOSE
Meditation Is Hanging Loose … Meditation is hanging loose … not uptight at all. Meditation is suspension in the stillness of clarity. It’s just being open.
MEDITATION: RETURNING HOME
Meditation: Returning Home Meditation is returning to our original state of silent awareness. Once rejuvenated in clarity,we go about our day as a silent witness,with less chatter and bias.
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DO I HAVE TO MEDITATE?
Do I Have To Meditate? The effect of meditation is to realise that we are pure awareness. Once we live this understanding, then no, we don’t have to meditate. But we cannot assume in some vague way that we are … Continue reading
DANCING TO SOMEONE ELSE’S TUNE
Dancing To Someone Else’s Tune Dancing to someone else’s tune:following someone else’s directions. We’ve been doing this for thousands of years. Some people think that we’re part of a universal consciousness, but what consciousness? Is it a materialistic consciousness that … Continue reading
WHAT IS MEDITATION?
What Is Meditation? Meditation is remaining pure being in the midst of experience. Holding onto memories is poverty. There is richness in spontaneity. Pure being never changes in experience.Be decided rather than undecided.
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NEGATIVE COMMENTS SAY MORE …
Negative Comments Say More … Negative comments say more about the commentator. It’s right to question, but if questioning is used as a weapon, it’s the work of Mara. If we only judge by our own standard of understanding, we’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Meditation
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DOES CONSCIOUSNESS CARE?
Does Consciousness Care? There are those who think consciousness has no morals. That is Mara at work. We are consciousness, and there are two aspects to us/consciousness; ordinary, contaminated consciousness and pure, uncontaminated consciousness. This is the proverbial struggle of good … Continue reading
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INNER AND OUTER LIFE
Inner And Outer Life Our outer life is knowing about things and people; it’s all very interesting and stimulating. Interesting: arousing curiosity; holding or catching the attention. By holding on to fascinating facts, we limit complete understanding by being fixated. We may think that, if … Continue reading
IS MEDITATION SPECIAL?
Is Meditation Special? Special: better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual. From Latin specialis, from species appearance’ When we sit in meditation, do we feel special? No, of course not. If we did, we’d be Mara – an enlightened ego making a show. If we think meditation … Continue reading
IT MATTERS
It Matters It matters what we think, what we say and what we do. If we merely go through a routine and function on that habitual level, we are in a dream state. We need to break the pattern – … Continue reading
SPACE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
Space, Consciousness And Time If we wave our hand around in front of us, the space doesn’t change, does it? That which perceives this unchanging space doesn’t change either, does it? Time only relates to things in space and memories … Continue reading
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MEDITATION DOESN’T MAKE US NICE PEOPLE
Meditation Doesn’t Make Us Nice People In fact, we can become cold. Even though we meditate, we still have to deal with our attitude – that aspect of our mind that thinks it’s special, and has to protect itself. That … Continue reading
THE BUDDHA STUDIED THE UPANISHADS AND VEDAS
The Buddha Studied The Upanishads And Vedas The Buddha wasn’t Buddhist. The texts he read were the teachings of the Upanishads and Vedas, but books are only the beginning. Our journey starts by being open, inquisitive and skeptical towards whatever we … Continue reading
WHAT DOES REALISATION MEAN?
What Does Realisation Mean? Realisation is personal verification, and meditation is the method for verification. Realisation is not regurgitation – the repetition of information without analysis or comprehension. When people start knowing through experiential practice rather than believing, the world will be a better place; … Continue reading
THE SCREEN OF OUR MIND
The Screen Of Our Mind The screen of our mind holds all our history to which we constantly refer, and this is how we live in a cyclic existence. We are indoctrinated at birth to see the world in a … Continue reading
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MENTAL TRAFFIC JAM
Mental Traffic Jam We can see by the activity on the internet every day how busy and occupied the human mind is. This compulsive pattern of behaviour maintains power and control over our mind, and is actually the definition of an … Continue reading
WHERE DID I GO RIGHT?
Where Did I Go Right? 🙂 We spend our lives following others who follow others, who have been following others for thousands of years. Sounds a bit fishy, doesn’t it? For me, following others was miserable and felt wrong as … Continue reading
WHAT IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS?
What Is Pure Consciousness? We are consciousness; we cannot be anything else, but we’re attached to our ideas in the mind. Consciousness is the cognisant space of mind. We are not what we can see, but fall into the trap … Continue reading Continue reading
ORGANISATION CONTROLS THE WAY WE THINK
Organisation Controls The Way We Think Organisation controls the way we think. Time and space are precious in order to reflect, to meditate, to realise the truth about what we are – which is beyond any organisation. In doing this, … Continue reading
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THE TRUTH IS SO SIMPLE
The Truth Is So Simple The truth is so simple you won’t believe it. You don’t have to believe it. 🙂 The truth isn’t in a book, in words, in exotic phrases. It is that which is seeing the words. … Continue reading
THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD MEDITATION
There Is No Good Or Bad Meditation Meditation is awareness without comment or judgement;it is being cognisant of what is happening in our mind. The clarity of awareness is what we naturally are.Revealing clarity is what meditation does.
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WE NEED TO CHALLENGE OUR THOUGHTS
We Need To Challenge Our Thoughts Why do I think the way I think? Not many of us ask this question. We need to challenge our thoughts, otherwise we will be stuck with the same old attitude all our life. … Continue reading
HOW DO WE KNOW WE’RE NOT A CLONE?
How Do We Know We’re Not A Clone? Being a clone means that we have become predictable and unoriginal, adopting others’ thoughts which affects our behaviour; we cannot see any other possibilities, as we are tied to a cultural script. There is … Continue reading
NEWS-INFORMATION-JESTER-STORYTELLER-JOKER …
News-Information-Jester-StoryTeller-Joker … … influencer … but read between the lines. Discover the true meaning, rather than statements.The truth is in plain sight. The truth is the reader, nd not what is written. That’s the constant joke played on humanity. ‘Jester’s … Continue reading
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THERE IS NO MYSTERY IN THE WORLD
There Is No Mystery In The World Mystery is man-made, created by stories and beliefs which cause division. Whether a story is true or not, polarisation occurs – the duality of relating. There is a power in the world that … Continue reading
MANTRAS ARE HANDY
Mantras Are Handy If we cannot stabilise our mind because it’s full of thoughts which we can’t drop, there is a method to help. A mantra is a word or phrase that we repeat; we cannot think of two things … Continue reading
THIS WORLD IS A WIND-UP MACHINE
This World Is A Wind-Up Machine It winds us up, and watches us go, just like a toy. This world is a wind-up machine, irritating us at every opportunity. 🙂 When we’re wound-up, we become tense and stressed, as words … Continue reading
EVERYTHING, EVERYONE – INCLUDING MEDITATION – IS OUR TEACHER
Everything, Everyone – Including – Is Our Teacher Everything that we encounter tells us something, by creating a response in our mind that affects our behaviour. That moment either adds to the continuum of habitual reactions, or opens up the … Continue reading
THE INSIDIOUS SUGGESTION OF MEDITATION SICKNESS
The Insidious Suggestion Of Meditation Sickness Symptoms of meditation sicknessOne study found that the most commonly reported side effects of meditation were anxiety and depression, but here is a non-exhaustive list of what folks with meditation sickness may encounter: Unpleasant thoughts. … Continue reading
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MEDITATION IS NOT A TRANCE-LIKE STATE
Meditation Is Not A Trance-Like State Meditation is the very opposite to being in a trance-like, hypnotic state. It is being fully conscious and aware, while a trance-like state is being lost in clouded mind of concepts that obscure pure … Continue reading
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LEADING A FULFILLING LIFE
Leading A Fulfilling Life We look around us and see angst, anxiety and oneupmanship everywhere. Why is this? People live dual lives; one is for the outer world to impress others, while the other finds this duality unfulfilling. This isn’t … Continue reading
THE IMITATION OF KNOWING
The Imitation Of Knowing What make us feel good? It is when we reverse not knowing into knowing. The relief is the joy of knowing that we’ve solved a problem. Something that we’d always felt but have never resolved has … Continue reading
THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF MIND IS PURE
The Fundamental Nature Of Mind Is Pure We are that fundamental nature of mind – pure consciousness. We’ve wandered far from our natural state, which has always been here, right now. Consciousness is the knowingness of the non-conceptual space of … Continue reading
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR DIS-INFORMATION FROM?
Where Do You Get Your Dis-information From? We are told, “Seeing is believing.” This is dis-information, but it’s the code that we live by which lies dormant in our minds but which can be activated at any moment. We are … Continue reading
REALISING WHERE WE WENT WRONG
Realising Where We Went Wrong We went wrong by following the unenlightened, who just followed the unenlightened. Even those who assume they are independent follow the same clichés, complaining about those who follow others. This is the vicious cycle of … Continue reading
MASTERING OUR THOUGHTS
Mastering Our Thoughts Mastering our thoughts is being free of others’ thoughts which master us, and this is the secret of a contented life, free from the anxiety of others’ exaggerations. The master is pure consciousness, while the slave is … Continue reading
PURE AWARENESS IS BEING NATURAL
Pure Awareness Is Being Natural Pure awareness is being ordinary, being natural; it’s just being aware. There is no attitude, no learning, no superiority – just awareness. Meditation is just being aware, anywhere. Pure awareness isn’t an altered state of … Continue reading
PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON LIFE
Place A High Value On Life Place a high value on learning, study, and knowledge about our reality through meditation.The actual experience transcends opinionated theories. Base your life on empirical observation and experience, rather than theory.
HYPOCRISY = REACTION = HYPOCRISY
Hypocrisy = Reaction = Hypocrisy It’s an unjust and demonic world. Hypocrisy is having the pretence of a virtuous character with moral principles that one does not actually possess. If we accuse others of being intolerant, we are participants in … Continue reading
EMOTIONS DISPEL DARKNESS
Emotions Dispel Darkness We have everything upside down. At the lower levels of information, the emotions are our enemy; we mustn’t feel desire, hatred, jealousy, pride, irritation, unhappiness, disillusionment … it’s a long list. 🙂 But what if these emotions … Continue reading
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IS THERE A GOD OR NOT?
Is There A God or Not? This is a pointless debate as it’s a personal issue. No one should impose their views on to others – and criticising those who believe/don’t believe is futile. What matters is how we feel … Continue reading
THE WIND UP IS A COVER UP
The Wind Up Is A Cover Up Being wound up is being anxious, fearful or angry about a state of affairs. Our minds are constantly held captive, and we’re so distracted that we cannot see the causes that created this … Continue reading
THE GREAT RESET
The Great Reset ‘The Great Reset’ is restoring our minds to its natural state, so that we can think clearly, and not be a reactive automaton. Our minds have become so distorted that we’re in conflict with everything and everyone. … Continue reading
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. 