Posted in Excerpts from Books on Feb 7th, 2011
Do you believe that truth can be but some illusions? They are dreams because they are not true. Their equal lack of truth becomes the basis for the miracle, which means that you have understood that dreams are dreams and that escape depends not on the dream, but only on awaking. Could it be some […]
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Posted in Going Inwards on Feb 1st, 2011
This term ‘spiritual companionship’ came into the awareness today. And I sat with it for a while. I wondered what it meant, what it truly meant. It sounds as if, there is someone there, who could be of a companion of some sort in the journey, as in one person, like a soul mate or […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Jan 10th, 2011
There is this mine field where I know lots of gold are buried underneath. If I shun away from the mine field thinking that it’d be dangerous and that I’d die there, then I will totally deprive myself of the treasures that can be mine. If I am walking away from the field thinking that […]
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Posted in Going Inwards on Jan 8th, 2011
It is not I as in the body that I see in the mirror everyday that represents me as the creative being. My body itself is a creation by me and not me. Likewise I cannot say that anything I experience outside of me as in what I see, what I hear, is not of […]
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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 […]
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Posted in Quotes on Dec 16th, 2010
This world is blind. Here there are few who clearly see. As birds escaping from a net, few go to a blissful state… . – Dhammapada, verse 174
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Dec 1st, 2010
The other day, a new friend commented that there will come to a point in time where we will have to stop relying on this common teacher we have and learn to control our own minds, to experience what we want to experience – to be the rightful Master of it, instead of the other […]
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Posted in Going Inwards on Nov 13th, 2010
The world reflects my inner world. When I am sad, the world cries with me. It can be a person who appears to be sad, crying for the same reason that I am crying for or even the skies which pours down gloomily; grieving and mourning in tandem my mental state. And when I am […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Ideas on Nov 4th, 2010
The mind is the same anywhere, everywhere. No matter how we try to twist it, twig it, it is the same with everyone. But, how each individual addresses the mind creates his or her reality or rather, relationship with the mind. And it boils down to ideas, perceptions and being able to relate to the […]
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Posted in Attitudes on Nov 3rd, 2010
Integrity is to mean the ability to stand true to our own space and be truthful to ourselves, without having to seek approval from others. It takes much courage and strength to take the first step the first time, and thereafter there is bound to be a second time and a third and a forth […]
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