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- SLAVERY March 27, 2023
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- REPEATING LABELS March 27, 2023
- THERE ARE MANY WISE WORDS March 27, 2023
- KNOW YOUR ENEMY, KNOW YOURSELF March 27, 2023
- OBLIVIOUS TO OUR REALITY March 26, 2023
- THE ILLUSION WITHIN THE ILLUSION March 25, 2023
- DON’T LET WHAT’S OUT THERE IN HERE March 24, 2023
- WHAT IF THERE IS A FIFTH COLUMN? March 24, 2023
- REASONING IS EMPATHY March 24, 2023
- A WORLD OF MENDACIOUS SOPHISTRY March 23, 2023
- A WORLD OF WAFFLE March 23, 2023
- THE SEED, THE MUD AND THE FRUIT March 23, 2023
- OUR ENEMY IS NOT OUR ENEMY March 23, 2023
- A TALENT FOR DEPENDENCY March 22, 2023
- EXPERIENCING TRAUMA MAKES US EMPATHETIC March 21, 2023
- SELF & ESSENCE March 21, 2023
- CORRUPTING CONSCIOUSNESS March 20, 2023
- DON’T FOLLOW A NAME March 20, 2023
- ARE WE CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS BEINGS? March 20, 2023
- SIMPLY BEYOND THE MIND March 20, 2023
- CONSCIOUSNESS IS SO ORDINARY March 19, 2023
- DON’T BE A ‘PERFECT MEDITATOR’ March 18, 2023
- EVERYTHING TRANSFORMS, SO NOTHING IS WASTED March 16, 2023
- BUYER BEWARE March 15, 2023
- GOD? OR NO GOD? March 14, 2023
- IF LIFE IS SELF-REPLICATING March 14, 2023
- IF YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY March 13, 2023
- THERE IS NOTHING MORE March 13, 2023
- RESOLVING OUR MIND March 13, 2023
- BARRIER TO TRANSPARENCY March 12, 2023
- THE MIND IS OUR TOOL March 12, 2023
- DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU KNOW March 11, 2023
- WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? March 10, 2023
- LIFE IS EXASPERATING March 10, 2023
- WHAT WE ARE NOW March 10, 2023
- DOGMA March 9, 2023
- EXPOSING YOUR SELF March 9, 2023
- FINDING CONFIDENCE IN OUR PATH March 8, 2023
- APPRECIATING OUR STUPIDITY March 8, 2023
- TRUTH BEYOND BELIEF March 7, 2023
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Tag Archives: religion
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. In this way, Dzogchen is practical - no bells and whistles required. 