A new year always gives new hopes to some people. There is always a kind of celebration for the ending of a current year and the welcoming of the New Year. And then there are new year resolutions made by many and some few who, after years and years of ‘failing’ to fulfil their new [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Not a New Year, only Blessed New Moment
Posted in Ideas, tagged conditionings, Ideas, thoughts on December 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Awareness is not Experience
Posted in Excerpts from Books, Going Inwards, tagged awareness, Freedom, Home, meditation, mindfulness, Self, spiritualjourney on December 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
An experience can be described and explained in terms of thoughts, feelings and they can be a myriad of them as in happiness, sadness, peace, anger, frustration, pain and etc. Experience can be one, and also numerous and they vary between one and another although one may seem similar to another due to the nature [...]
Existential Meanings
Posted in Ideas, tagged conditionings, dream, Ideas on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What separates us from the things that we see that is apart from us, as in not connected or in any way joined to our body? I mean to say things like a lamp post, a table, a chair, a car… I asked this question to quite a few people and the most common answer [...]
Right View, Wrong View
Posted in Attitudes, tagged conditionings, Ideas, ignorance, inquiry, mindfulness, selfawareness, spiritualjourney on December 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A Master will denote right and wrong as simply as one that leads to the experience of freedom and peace to the former and one that leads to the experience of sufferings and bondage to the latter. It is not strange to see why once we have experienced the contrast and it is also not [...]
Instead of Battling, why not Understand?
Posted in Attitudes, tagged ego, ignorance, inquiry, selfawareness, spiritualjourney on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you realise that whenever someone is opposing us, we are always naturally in resistance? It is like as if it threatens our sense of righteousness, our beingness and most of the time, we either keep quiet from then on, or start to defend ourselves in a nice manner or in a form of an [...]
Illusion as Reality
Posted in Ideas, tagged conditionings, dream, Ideas, inquiry, projections, thoughts on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The working of the illusion is worth deliberating on for it is the workings of the illusion that creates reality. Our reality is exactly the illusion that we believe in. But what creates our illusion that camouflages reality? And in that case, is there reality? Our illusion is indeed being coloured by our perceptions and [...]
Emotion is never about someone else
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas, tagged conditionings, Ideas, ignorance, illusion, inquiry, integrity, projections, reality, reflections, spiritualjourney, takingresponsibility, Truth, willingness, wisdom on December 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At some point in time when we begin to take full responsibility of the experiences that arises in us, we will soon realise that any emotions that includes anger, jealousy, betrayal and even love, albeit often targeted at someone else is never about someone else. If we were to be really truthful about these emotions [...]
Disturbed, only by Thoughts
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, tagged Buddha, conditionings, ego, Freedom, mindfulness, selfawareness, thoughts on December 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Out of all the senses we experience, it is very strange and interesting that we are most of the time only aware of only one of them. Perhaps we subconsciously know that it is that powerful, and yet we are oblivious or ignorant to its power. Our life is run by our belief systems and [...]
Taming the Monkey
Posted in Quotes, tagged Buddha, conditionings, ego, Freedom, mindfulness, Self, selfawareness, spiritualjourney, wisdom on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
He, who has pacified mental disturbances, uprooted and removed, will surely attain concentration (samadhi) by day or night. . – Dhammapada, verse 250
