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- WHY DO WE PREFER STORIES TO DIRECT EXPERIENCE? April 20, 2026
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- 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
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- 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
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- QUESTIONING TRUTH April 4, 2026
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- 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
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- REALISATION COMES FROM DROPPING THE MEDITATION March 31, 2026
- WE CANNOT NOT COMMUNICATE March 30, 2026
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- 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
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Tag Archives: mindfulness
WORSHIPPING SOMETHING ‘HIGHER’ THAN OURSELVES
Worshipping Something ‘Higher’ Than Ourselves A hierarchy creates a misguided view and a separation.Hierarchy: from Greek hierarkhēs ‘sacred rule’. This is political positioning, keeping us in our place. Appreciating someone who has more knowledge or wisdom is beneficial to our understanding, because we already … Continue reading
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
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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CATCHING YOUR BREATH
Catching Your Breath The road to sanity. Until we can count ten exhalations of breath without following a thought, our thoughts will be in control of us (unless we are daft enough to think we are our thoughts 🙂 ) … Continue reading
BEING AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE DOING
Being Aware Of What We Are Doing Mindfulness; the precursor to realisation. Mindfulness: Intention to cultivate awareness, returning to it again and again. Attention to what is occurring in the present moment, simply observing thoughts, feelings and sensations as they … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, attitude, Awareness, Being aware, CONSCIOUSNESS, intention, KARMA, mindfulness, non-judgemental, pure consciousness, remember
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PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEVER OBSCURED
Pure Consciousness Is Never Obscured Pure consciousness has to be realised, rather than thinking, “I get it”. Pure consciousness is consciousness that has realised it is empty of contamination. It is always present; it is what we are. That’s why … Continue reading
FRESH OR FROZEN
Fresh Or Frozen? Every chef knows that fresh food is juicy and nourishing. They also know that frozen food is dry and, when reheated, becomes even drier and lacks substance. There are those who think, however, that ‘fresh-frozen” is still … Continue reading
MEDITATION ONLY SPOILS IT
Meditation Only Spoils It Meditation is a method to bring the mind to stillness for the clarity of awareness to be acknowledged though mindfulness. It is in relating to this experience, however, that we end up in a constant duality … Continue reading
THE SHOCK OF REALISATION IS ALMOST UNBEARABLE
The Shock Of Realisation Is Almost Unbearable Nine and a half billion people on this planet are unaware of their true reality, and so they’re not free. We just accept the status quo of following everyone else in our particular … Continue reading
STOP MEDITATING WHEN …
Stop Meditating When … Stop meditating when you recognise that there is just seeing (pure consciousness) taking place. Merely relax and rest there. All the senses are wide open, as pure perception is present. The outcome of this is that … Continue reading
WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WE EXPERIENCE
We Only Know What We Experience We start with a belief:our problem lies in holding on to that belief and ignoring experience.We need to test beliefs in order to verify them. We only know what we experience. Anything else is … Continue reading
WHAT IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS?
What Is Pure Consciousness? The one absolute truth about pure consciousness is that it is already pure; we do not have to make it pure. Without knowing this, we remain imprisoned in falsehoods, dullness and guilt. It is the fact … Continue reading
METHODS AND AWAKENING
Methods and Awakening There are two approaches to the realisation of our essential nature: we can either approach it through mindful methods, or realise that we are already awake – and if we forget that we are already awake, we … Continue reading
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SOCIAL MEDIA, THE DOPAMINE HIT AND MINDFULNESS
Social Media, The Dopamine Hit And Mindfulness Social media gives us feedback and validation … fast! It’s what we live for, and so it actually controls us. We don’t see it, because we are in it. This is demonic intent. … Continue reading
THE PROBLEM WITH ‘DOING’ SPIRITUAL PRACTICE …
The Problem With ‘Doing’ Spiritual Practice … … is wanting something, fearing not getting it, and ignoring what is already present. The way to salvation or liberation free from suffering is to see the Lord of Love everywhere, and in … Continue reading
TRUTH SEEKERS AND TRUTH FINDERS
Truth Seekers And Truth Finders … and finders, keepers! As truth seekers, we look at this approach and that approach, and “Oho! What they doing over there?!” We are offered things to wear, wave and chant, with books to read … Continue reading
WAKING UP AND STAYING AWAKE
Waking Up And Staying Awake is coming to our senses. Coming to our senses is being mindful of whatever is taking place. Mindfulness leads to awareness, and awareness leads to pure consciousness. At every moment, we have a choice, and … Continue reading
WE DO NOT THINK AS MUCH AS WE THINK WE DO!
We Do Not Think As Much As We Think We Do! Perception isn’t thinking. The more one realises, the more one realises. One takes a step, and the next step presents itself. Most of the time, we humans are on … Continue reading
WHAT IS BUDDHISM?
What is Buddhism? We are bound by our emotions, which protect a ‘me’ – an illusory self image. Buddhism is the path leading to insight into the true nature of reality of self and all phenomena. Through personal experience, our … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, emotions, mindfulness, nature of reality, self image, timeless selfless awareness
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BODY, SPEECH AND MIND
Body, Speech And Mind In the Dharma, prayer and ritual may be a little difficult to accept because we may not be ready for them; even though we may be introduced to prayer and ritual at the beginning of our … Continue reading
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BEING SPIRITUALLY CONFUSED FOR YEARS!
Being Spiritually Confused For Years! It is very important to understand that there are different approaches. Different approaches can create conflicts, giving rise to spiritual confusion that can actually turn people off, sending them back to sleep. This needn’t happen … Continue reading
WHEN DO WE WAKE UP?
When Do We Wake Up? The very moment we (pure awareness/pure consciousness) disengage from identifying with the dreaming of the chattering mind. When we are distracted and occupied by thinking, or spaced out and vacant, the moment ‘now’ is obscured … Continue reading
THE BEST MEDITATION IS…
The Best Meditation Is… when we stop meditating! Tulku Urgyen said, “Short moments many times.” This is essential in awareness meditation. We don’t hang on to anything, effortlessly relaxing, without the mental gymnastics of mindfulness. The Dzogchen approach is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Meditation, mindfulness, Non-meditation., servicing the mind, Tulku Urgyen
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MUDFULNESS
Mudfulness 🙂 No Mud, No Lotus. The Art of Transforming Suffering by Thích Nhất Hạnh “Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and … Continue reading
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MIND TRAINING ENHANCEMENT
Mind Training Enhancement. Even though we cannot think of two things at once, we can do and think of different activities at the same time – in fact, we can do three things at once, using body, speech and mind. … Continue reading
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