It is very interesting how the mind works, hanging on not only on anything outside, as in a person out there, or a material out there, but also a state, or a personality experienced when I am asleep to what is lurking at the background. There was this instance, or a period of time, where […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Feb 19th, 2011
Some say, it is better to be asleep so that the dream can remain real in order for the intensity of the experience to be felt; for how can everything else be felt to the extreme of it, unless it is real? This reminds me of a scene in Matrix where this fella who betrayed […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Feb 10th, 2011
The mind, as how a kindred spirit puts it is like a frog’s tongue, spitting out of the month continuously, to stick on any bug; or thing, in the mind’s case; to put it in its mouth. It is constantly contacting something, as in anything that is outside of itself in search for something. Not […]
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Posted in Going Inwards on Feb 7th, 2011
Dealing with the mind is like dealing with a child. Much care has to be put into the act. When the mind is in a delusional state and once aware of it, we can lead it to inquiry instead of identifying with it further. It is like a child who has fallen from the swing […]
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Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Feb 6th, 2011
Two years ago, a friend and I were facilitating this free movie session where the lead role was put into an asylum where he actually led some patients back to sanity. After that movie, my friend wrote on the white board, ‘Insanity is just a shift of perception’. At that point of my maturity, of […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Feb 5th, 2011
Seeking approval can be like an addiction. When we can’t get it from someone, we move on to the next and to the next and to the next. A wise teacher will know when to drop you – high and dry, and that period is much like experiencing a withdrawal symptom – lost and jittery; […]
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Posted in Ideas on Jan 3rd, 2011
There are only two types of perceptions which one can subscribe to – ignorance or wisdom. We don’t like to think that we are ignorant. The good news is, it is not us which are ignorant. It is the perception which has ignorance in it that makes us look like it, or rather allows our […]
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Posted in Attitudes on Dec 23rd, 2010
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 […]
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Posted in Attitudes on Dec 22nd, 2010
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 […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Dec 19th, 2010
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 […]
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