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- NATURE (BUDDHA-NATURE) VERSUS NURTURE (MARA-NATURE) April 3, 2026
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- REALISATION COMES FROM DROPPING THE MEDITATION March 31, 2026
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- WHAT IS OUR ULTIMATE REALITY? March 29, 2026
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Tag Archives: mindful
SHORT MOMENTS
Short Moments Meditation and daily activities should both be paused from time to time, to just be. In this way, we remember that we are pure consciousness, and never get lost in the activity. This is balancing meditation and life … Continue reading
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Tagged balancing meditation and life, daily activities, dropping the method, effortless reality, fixation on the meditation, mediation is not the end product, Meditation, meditation is the reminder, mindful, mindfulness, not too tight and not too loose, pausing from time to time, the method
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WE AREN’T COMPLETE PEOPLE … YET
We Aren’t Complete People … Yet We are partial: existing only in part; incomplete.We are body, mind and consciousness. As long as we don’t recognise consciousness, we will continue to live a limited, materialistic existence within certain boundaries. Becoming aware of consciousness is … Continue reading
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
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Tagged completion state, Dzogchen, empty awareness, free of technique, liberation, mindful, the destination, two methods, Vajrayana
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MIND-FULL OF EMPTINESS
Mind-Full of Emptiness This is the path to enlightenment: the complete picture. There are two aspects to complete enlightenment: one is consciousness-awareness and the other is its purity of emptiness. There are also two ways of coming to this realisation. … Continue reading
GROSS MEDITATION, SUBTLE MEDITATION, VERY SUBTLE MEDITATION
Gross Meditation, Subtle Meditation, Very Subtle Meditation Gross meditation is watching the mind, being mindful and aware. Subtle meditation is awareness that the mind is still and empty of thoughts: there is, however, a me and there is awareness, so … Continue reading
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Tagged aware, Duality, gross mind, mindful, no me, No Meditator, non-duality, nothing but awareness, still mind empty of thoughts
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