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Event Reminder: Spiritual Foundations Week 3 – Prayer
Tomorrow is Week 3 of the Spiritual Foundations Satsang series. Join me at 5pm UK time. All welcome. All details here. Continue reading
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Untitled Thoughts #10
Make no promises or predictionsJust take each step as it comes Notice the effects of notions and ideasOn your moment-to-moment sense of well-beingIt’s like you can keep noticing and rooting outThose notions that lie about the nature of realityAnd sometimes it’s not so obviousBecause the false ideas are part and parcelOf the consensus paradigm Making… Continue reading
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Could it be…
Could it be so simple, to let life flow without disturbance or resistance? Just get out of the way. Continue reading
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I don’t seek answers…
I don’t seek answers any more, I’m content to live in the mystery. Continue reading
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Buddhism has this notion of Dharma Gates…
Buddhism has this notion of Dharma Gates. It means that there are ways of entering into this primordial state of freedom and joy. And what’s important is that these gates are plentiful, diverse and always present and available in every moment. In other words, paradise is right here and now if only you’d ‘enter into… Continue reading
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Much of our tension and contraction…
Much of our tension and contraction and clinging is a response to our inherent sense of groundlessness. Ironically, in attempting to find some firm footing we distress ourselves even more. The answer to the issue of groundlessness isn’t to grasp but to let go. Clutching after unattainable certainty, security, stability, permanence, has us perpetually fearful… Continue reading
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There’s not much to be said…
There’s not much to be said ultimately about what we should be or shouldn’t be doing. Or notions like being in or out of alignment with the ‘higher truth’. Ideas like sin, right action, or ‘being in accord with natural law’ are useful to a point. But as you approach the real state of affairs… Continue reading
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Silent mind! Holy mind!
Silent mind! Holy mind! All is calm, all is bright 🌟🎄🎶 Continue reading
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No-one has ever experienced unconsciousness…
No-one has ever experienced unconsciousness for even a moment. There is zero first-person evidence for it’s existence. Consciousness is always present. It’s only the content that changes, comes and goes. You are that consciousness. Continue reading
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THE COMPASSION OF NONDUALITY
The teachings of nonduality can sometimes seem to be somewhat abstract, or removed from one’s lived experience, or even rejecting of it. It may be that these teachings, being so uncompromising about the causes of suffering and its remedies, seem to disregard the human-ness of life in favour of a cold, relentless discrimination. But the truth… Continue reading