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If You Have to Live

ByMartyn 2022-07-182024-09-11

If you have to live (with something), if it’s inevitable and inescapable, you’d best learn to love it.

I’m talking about life itself, all of it.

You gotta go all the way.

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Awakened Mind Has No Prescriptions
ByMartyn 2020-11-252024-09-11

Awakened mind has no prescriptions, only descriptions. But since the world at large is dualistic, we have to translate much of what we hear into non-personal terms. So doing becomes happening. And moral or spiritual injunctions become the recognition and description of our nature and tendencies rather than actions we take as autonomous individuals.

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Perhaps the Greatest Exponent of Self-Inquiry
ByMartyn 2020-12-102024-09-11

Perhaps the greatest exponent of self-inquiry and Self-realisation is Sri Ramana Maharshi. The genius of his method, in it’s simplicity and power, is unexcelled. Who is the knower? This is the fundamental question. Who am I? But remember, the answer to this question is experiential not conceptual. So ‘look’, don’t think. Observe, don’t analyse. Experience,…

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I Don’t Like Cynicism
ByMartyn 2020-12-282024-09-13

I don’t like cynicism. It gets over-used. It may be that sometimes its target is justified. But it rapidly becomes a blanket philosophy for life. An easy cop-out from sincerity and vulnerability. And then its just like adding poison to every meal. It’s much harder but more rewarding to try to see the best in…

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Untitled Thoughts #11
ByMartyn 2023-08-272024-09-13

Just because the nature of conditioned realityIs an illusionIs dream-likeAnd ultimately incorporealDoesn’t mean that it’s to be deniedOr seen as a problem in itself And the presence of sufferingIn the conditioned realmDoesn’t necessitateThe wholesale abandonmentOf all experiencing Just see through the illusionAnd enjoy the ride Everything we need to knowIs available to us in this…

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Just Because
ByMartyn 2023-05-302024-09-13

Just because the mind identifies the problem (of suffering) doesn’t mean it can provide the answer.

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Some Thoughts on Suffering
ByMartyn 2019-02-052024-09-10

At the heart of matter of being human is the problem of suffering. What are we to do with it, how do we contend with it? If suffering cannot be accounted for at our current level of understanding then we might ask, as a starting point, if we can at least *admit the possibility* that…

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