-
Join 498 other subscribers
-
Archives
- WE ADOPT A STORY October 3, 2026
- SANITY IS WISDOM October 3, 2026
- SOCIOLOGY AND THE DHARMA October 3, 2026
- LIVING IN OUR BUBBLE October 3, 2026
- FEEDBACK IS VITAL FOR PROGRESS October 3, 2026
- PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS INNOCENT October 2, 2026
- THE ULTIMATE PSYOPS October 1, 2026
- WAKING UP IS DISTURBING October 1, 2026
- FROM SIGHT TO INSIGHT September 30, 2026
- WE KNOW ABOUT PLATO’S CAVE … BUT DO WE? September 30, 2026
- LOST SOUL, LOST CONSCIOUSNESS September 29, 2026
- RITUALISTIC DHARMA AND REAL DHARMA September 29, 2026
- LOVING LABELS – OTHERS’ LABELS September 28, 2026
- THERE IS NO DHARMA, NO BUDDHISM, NOTHING INTERESTING September 28, 2026
- RETREATS, AND GOING FOR A BUN September 27, 2026
- HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE DREAMING? September 27, 2026
- CLEARING AWAY THE DARK IGNORANCE OF MIND September 26, 2026
- IS THE EXOTIC ESCAPISM? September 26, 2026
- WHY DOES LIFE FEEL LIKE A SCAM? September 26, 2026
- KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT COMPASSION September 25, 2026
- BELIEVING VERSUS KNOWING September 24, 2026
- BORN INTO A WAY OF LIFE September 23, 2026
- COMPASSION ONLY FOR THOSE AFAR September 22, 2026
- ARE WE AWAKE OR DREAMING? September 22, 2026
- DID YOU GET WHAT YOU CAME FOR? September 22, 2026
- REALISING THE REAL TEACHER September 22, 2026
- BELONGING TO AN UNSTABLE TRIBE September 21, 2026
- WORDS ARE NEARLY THE TRUTH September 20, 2026
- THE LESS THE JUDGEMENT, THE MORE THE INSISIGHT September 19, 2026
- IF YOU’RE BONKERS AND YOU KNOW IT, CLAP YOUR HANDS September 19, 2026
- THE DHARMA IS IN LIFE, NOT IN A BOOK September 18, 2026
- THE IMPORTANCE OF RECOGNISING BLIND ALLEYS September 18, 2026
- SPIRITUALITY ISN’T A PERFORMANCE September 17, 2026
- WHY GO ON ABOUT HAPPINESS? September 17, 2026
- TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE? September 16, 2026
- WHY DON’T PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE? September 15, 2026
- DO YOU WANT TO BE A BODHISATTVA? September 14, 2026
- WISDOM IS USELESS UNLESS IT IS PRACTISED September 13, 2026
- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE? September 13, 2026
- THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING September 12, 2026
- WE ALL HAVE DARK PASTS September 12, 2026
- MOST PEOPLE LIVE IN THE PAST September 11, 2026
- PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEVER WRONG September 11, 2026
- IN EMPTINESS, WORDS ARE JUST NOISE September 11, 2026
- THE I GOES BACK A LONG WAY September 11, 2026
- REALISING SOMETHING IS WRONG September 10, 2026
- WORDS FILL OUR MIND September 10, 2026
- UNBLOCKING ENLIGHTENMENT September 10, 2026
- UNDOING PRIDE September 10, 2026
- HOW LONG DOES AN EMOTION LAST? September 9, 2026
Tag Archives: selfishness
EMPOWERING YOURSELF?
Empowering Yourself? We have become so daft that we think ’empowering yourself’ is a normal expression. This is acquiring false confidence from a memory bank of mundane ideas in order to become a self-centred comic-book, parading around in the pretence … Continue reading
FOLLOW-THE-LEADER
Follow-The-Leader Follow-The-Leader: A child’s game. The universe seems complex, but it obeys simple rules. If we know the rules, we can lead our own life, otherwise we follow others who follow others who follow others, and no one knows why. The rules of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged attraction, compassion, consciousness is pure and compassionate, desire aversion and indfference, Fight, flight and freeze, hope fear and ignorance, our likes and dislikes, pure consciousness, PURITY, realise in practice, repulsion and inertia, seeing through the pretence, selfishness, the essence of our being, the rules of the universe
Leave a comment
SPIRITUAL MERIT
Spiritual Merit The more that we engage in spiritual practices of understanding, empathy, compassion, generosity and so forth … the more we attract good fortune. The more selfish we are, the more we attract misfortune. A happy mind or an … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged a good heart, a heavy heart, an easy path, compassion, generosity, selfishness, spiritual practice, the paramita, understanding
Leave a comment
WHAT IS EVIL?
What Is Evil? When a question arises, there is always an answer, but it may a little time to find a way to express this, illustrating how deep we can go in our understanding. We normally think of ‘evil’ as … Continue reading
CATCHING DEMONS
Catching Demons before they catch us Fantasy media (which come in many forms: Hollywood, video games, art, news, religion … ) places imaginary beliefs in the dark corners of our mind. Our reactions to this demonic activity have become so … Continue reading
