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Tag Archives: religion
RELIGION ASKS NO QUESTIONS
Religion Asks No Questions Religion is a place where we don’t ask questions. If we do question, the reply comes only from a set text. If we ask, “Why should I believe that text?” the answer should be, “Don’t. Test … Continue reading
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THE PROBLEM WITH RELIGION
The Problem With Religion Religion means ‘to bind’, which should mean to remember. To remember, we use words, symbols and rituals that become the form of that religion. This is where the form takes over and we forget the essence. … Continue reading
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Tagged form takes over, idolatry, pure consciousness, religion, the essence isn't worship
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CONSCIOUSNESS ISN’T A RELIGION
Consciousness Isn’t A Religion All creatures are consciousness. Religion turns consciousness into a performance.People turn life into a performance. Being aware of being conscious is rare.Realising that consciousness is empty is even rarer.
IN LOVE WITH THE GURU
In Love With The Guru When we fall in love with the guru – a person – we accept everything they say, endowing them with special qualities. By association, we think we have those same qualities, so we’re covering up … Continue reading
WHAT IF THERE WAS NO RELIGION?
What If There Was No Religion? It’s an old question. Even if there was no religion, there would still be conscious awareness for, without that, nothing could be known. The essence of all beings is conscious awareness. Why make a … Continue reading
THE APPEARANCE OF TRUTH
The Appearance Of Truth Whatever appears to be the truth is never the truth. We live in a conflict of interests; nothing ‘out there’ or ‘in the mind’ is the truth of our reality. We make a grave mistake when … Continue reading
DON’T CONFUSE WHAT IS ‘SPIRITUAL’
Don’t Confuse What Is ‘Spiritual’ ‘Spiritual’ is consciousness, conscious awareness, pure consciousness. It’s what we are. There is no place to go to find it. We cannot even find it in our own mind, as it is the very essence … Continue reading
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Tagged pure consciousness, religion, rest in essence, Spiritual, the very essence of mind
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
The Difference Between Religion And SpiritualityReligion is organised practices shared by a group.Spirituality is individual practice. What is this spirituality?Spirituality is personal recognition of non-material, pure conscious awareness. What is practice?Sustaining this pure conscious awareness. Why join a group?Learning words … Continue reading
ADDICTED TO RELIGION AND TO ANTI-RELIGION
Addicted To Religion And To Anti-Religion The silliness of argument. Don’t let the religious and the anti-religious – the Creationists and the Darwinists – treat you like a four-year-old. They all need followers to keep the addiction alive. There is … Continue reading
MEDITATION: BEING STATELESS
Meditation: Being Stateless Meditation isn’t going into a ‘state’; it’s coming out of our self, and the obvious mental state that we carry around. In our usual state of likes and dislikes – our routine – we lose freshness, we … Continue reading
THE PATH OF NOT TRYING
The Path Of Not Trying Those who want something feel that they don’t have it. There’s a lot of religion out there, with a lot of rituals and a lot of words, all extremely consuming. These all engender a feeling … Continue reading
RELIGION V SPIRITUALITY
Religion V Spirituality Religion is the form, while spirituality is the means. Although religions attempt to be spiritual, they cannot stop being hierarchical organisations where people have titles, with different ranks or positions depending on how important they are to … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, compassion, form and means, groupthink, religion, spirituality
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EVIL: AGAINST HUMANITY
Evil: Against Humanity Evil, which is self-serving, prevents humanity from realising the knowledge of ultimate good and evil. Once this is understood, humanity can never be manipulated again. There are many levels, or yanas, of understanding good and evil. Evil … Continue reading
PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, RELIGION AND CULTURE
Pure Consciousness, Religion and Culture Mixing them up can cause confusion. “For where two or three gather together in my name, there am I with them…” – Matthew 18.12 Who actually wrote this? ‘When two or three are gathered in my name …’, we will have a committee, an inner … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, group therapy, Meditation, personal realisation, pure consciousness, religion
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BELIEVING IN GOD; NOT BELIEVING IN GOD
Believing In God; Not Believing In God Belief is acceptance without proof. Believing in God; not believing in God. Believing in the Buddha; not believing in the Buddha. It doesn’t matter what we believe, as belief is in the mind. … Continue reading
BEYOND RELIGION
Beyond Religion When it comes to pure awareness, nothing is more real. It is real because, being real, it is empty cognisance that never changes. All phenomena change, including ideas, but pure awareness or consciousness does not. Like infinite space, … Continue reading
IT’S OBVIOUS
It’s Obvious The more we look, the more we see. The more we drop what we see, the more we are able to see (holding on limits complete understanding). When we drop all that we see, all we are left … Continue reading
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE RELIGIOUS BANDWAGON
The Psychology Of The Religious Bandwagon Religion binds certain types together in the name of truth, but it also divides us. Why? The initial wisdom was expressed by a person who was not in the religion – that came later. … Continue reading
NEW AGE IDEAS; CLOSE, BUT …
New Age Ideas; Close, But … The New Age movement (part of the new world order) changes people’s beliefs from God into believing in a universal consciousness. It blends ‘religious’, ‘spiritual’ and ‘philosophical’ concepts to maintain a global vagueness and … Continue reading
THE PROBLEM FOR A BUDDHA
The Problem For A Buddha The problem for the Buddha, Jesus and other enlightened beings is that their teachings are turned into religions. This has the effect of either gathering believers in ritual or putting people off for ever, and … Continue reading
APATHY IN CONSCIOUSNESS
Apathy In Consciousness Apathy is being indifferent to whatever goes on in our mind. We’d rather be drawn into what is going on ‘out there’. This is demonic activity in action = distraction/entertainment which is spiritual laziness. Spirituality is just … Continue reading
BEFORE RELIGION
Before Religion Absolute truth: we are purely consciousness, purely aware without commentaries or elaborations. Adepts who realise this absolute truth express it in their own way. This expression takes the form of words. Words become actions, and actions become organised, … Continue reading
DON’T MAKE MEDITATION INTO AN ART FORM
Don’t Make Meditation Into An Art Form Don’t make an art form out of spirituality. That is religion. Meditation is merely sitting still, quietening the mind through concentration to bring all that inner chatter and judgement to rest. Then clarity … Continue reading
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Tagged aware of awareness, clarity, conpassion, consciousness observes the me, crap in the mind, deep peace, duality to non-duality, Meditation, pure consciousness, quieten the mind, raw, religion, the cause of suffering, the path, uncomfortable experience, we are pure awareness
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WE CANNOT DOUBT CONSCIOUSNESS
We Cannot Doubt Consciousness We may doubt ourselves, but we cannot doubt consciousness. Our self is a build-up of dogma – a set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. We are all indoctrinated from childhood, and thus we give our … Continue reading
TWO VIEWS OF GOD
Two Views Of God God: supreme being. But what is that? From a theistic point of view, this means a supreme being, a deity. From a Buddhist point of view, this means our highest consciousness, or pure consciousness. As a … Continue reading
STUCK IN A MIND LOOP
Stuck In a Mind Loop Ever feel like you’re treading water, responding to life in the same way all the time? Instead of remaining in pure perception, consciousness becomes corrupted or distracted and, via the senses, information goes straight to … Continue reading
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Tagged Confusion, individual confusion, judgement, KARMA, memory, our individual path, PURE PERCEPTION, religion, Trauma, trauma is our teacher
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BEING AT HOME WITH OUR SELF
Being At Home With Our Self It’s lovely – and such a relief – once we stop conforming. We totally misunderstand spirituality if we think that we have to be something different from the way we are. That is what … Continue reading
SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING
Seeing Is Not Believing The phrase, “Seeing is believing”, is trotted out as if it was the truth, when it merely shows the illusion under which we live. Belief is accepting something without proof. This how others’ definitions create problems … Continue reading
FREEDOM FROM TRIBAL POLITICS
Freedom From Tribal Politics When spirituality becomes a religion, religion becomes political. Spirituality frees. Religion binds. Politics influences. Result: monkey see, monkey do. To influence, social manipulation has to take place in order to maintain an idea. It’s what chimpanzees … Continue reading
INVESTIGATING TRUTH – RECOGNISING EVIDENCE
Investigating Truth – Recognising Evidence The problem with investigating truth is knowing the difference between wanting proof (something acquired or borrowed) as opposed to proving as a personal experience. If we want proof without proving, whatever we come up with will still be a theory; it’s … Continue reading
THE WORD ‘RELIGION’ HAS AN EFFECT ON PEOPLE
The Word ‘Religion’ Has An Effect On People Hope, fear, a sense of purpose, a belief, control, wrong, over-organised, evil, part of our evolution … ? Religion claims to be the intercessor or connection to higher truth or God. Religion: … Continue reading
MEDITATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION
Meditation Has Nothing To Do With Religion Meditation has nothing to do with religion. Religion turns meditation into an occasion. Meditation is the practice of simply resting in awareness to realise that we are that awareness. Meditation is not an … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, inspiration, Meditation, Practice, religion, spontaneous moment, take a break, we are awake
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FINDING WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
Finding What You Are Looking For There are around 2,360 entries on this blog … probably too many 😀 In ‘Search’ (right at the bottom of the page), try typing a word that comes to mind, and see what pops … Continue reading
THE AGE OF FAST SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
The Age Of Fast Spiritual Progress “But the world is in such a mess!” Precisely! The Dzogchen teachings are for this period in human history because they are the direct instruction into the nature of mind, the nature of reality. … Continue reading
DO WE HAVE TO BE SPECIAL TO BE SPIRITUAL?
Do We Have To Be Special To be Spiritual? The Buddha saw that everyone has Buddha nature, but we’re asleep. The word ‘Buddha’ merely means awake and pure, so from that point of view, no one is special … equally, … Continue reading
THE CLEARER THE MIND, THE CLEARER WE ARE
The Clearer The Mind, The Clearer We Are When we start to consider things with an open mind, we start to see things differently. As we reach one step of clarity, the next is revealed. Religions are belief systems This … Continue reading
BUYING INTO THE PACKAGE
Buying Into The Package Some of us like it complicated and exotic, having lots to do – the 4×100,000 preliminary practices, prayers, pujas, chanting, ringing bells, visualising deities in a complicated manner, and waving dorjes: it’s seen as a means … Continue reading
RELIGION IS BEING DEMONISED
Religion Is Being Demonised We can see the divisive effect of this on society. Religion divides. The origin of the word ‘religion’ is ‘to bind’, and you don’t have to be in a religion to be bound: being bound to … Continue reading
SPIRITUALITY IS BEYOND RELIGION
Spirituality is beyond religion. We are embodied beings – embodied pure beings – not of matter, but of compassionate, intelligent energy, or spirit. Religion is meant to put us in touch with our spirituality. Whether it does or not, will … 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. 