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Animals get it. Why don’t people?
Humans generally consider themselves superior to animals. We dominate them, enslave them, kill them and eat them. We think we have the right to do this because we’re supposedly ‘smarter’ than they...
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Life owes us nothing
A great many people operate under the unconscious assumption that life owes them something. Which is not only untrue, but actually creates a great deal of misery and resentment because the reality of...
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Tao Te Ching 24: Stop trying to outshine others
- 24 - Those who stand on tiptoes do not stand firmly. Those who rush ahead do not get far Those who try to outshine others dim their own light. Those who are self-righteous are not respected. Those...
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Our culture’s obsession with money: killing our soul as well as the planet?
“Money is the root of all evil”. That’s a truism that isn’t technically true. Money itself is neither good nor bad — it’s neutral. And, in spite of what we tell ourselves, it has NO inherent value...
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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward – a film everyone really needs to watch!
It was nearly two years ago that I watched a documentary titled ‘Zeitgeist: Moving Forward’. The third in a series of films by Peter Joseph, it confirmed a lot of what I already knew to be true, but...
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The 4 most important things I ever learned about relationships
“Never frown, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.” Anon Before I take a short blog hiatus, this is the first in a short series of relationships and sex, inspired by the...
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Why you have to dare to be true to You
So, I’ve found it’s hard getting back into the blogging habit after a long-ish break. It doesn’t help that things have been choppy the past month and my mind has been a little fuzzy and unfocussed. But...
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The truth about human relationships
The truth about human relationships is: People come and go. Life is always chopping and changing, an interplay of billions of interrelated factors. Accordingly, there’s nothing solid about...
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Imperfect person – perfect awareness
I’m not an asshole. I don’t suppose anyone ever thinks they are, even if by all accounts they’re a textbook case. If you want to meet an asshole, there are plenty of them out there to choose from;...
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Vipassana meditation – observing thought
Meditation needs no introduction. Nowadays there’s a lot of mainstream attention given to its amazing effectiveness at not only reducing psychological stress, anxiety, depression, emotional issues,...
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The wisdom of vedanta – and why life is set up to break you
Mundaka Upanishad: Two birds living together, each the friend of the other, perch upon the same tree. Of these two, one eats the sweet fruit of the tree, but the other simply looks on without eating....
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Love
No one can give you the love you deny yourself. It’s not out there. In fact, in your own direct experience there is no ‘out there’ because everything you experience, you experience in you, in your own...
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10 Things I Learned About Life in 2013
Hi everyone, hope you have all had a great Christmas/Solstice/festive season. Whenever we approach the end of another year and the beginning of a new one, I usually tend to get a little reflective. I...
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The Only Thing You Ever Need To Know About Self Esteem
The issue of self esteem is something that’s unique to human beings. It’s not something that animals or plants have to bother about because they’ve already got it sussed! In fact they have a great...
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Tao Te Ching 46: Contentment
- 46 - When a country is in harmony with the Tao running horses are retired to till the fields. When a country runs counter to the Tao warhorses are bred outside the cities. ~ There is no greater...
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An Internal Civil War (advice for dealing with emotional stress)
Stop taking those thoughts and feelings so seriously… (Image: Stockvault) One of the best bits of advice I was ever given was this: When you’re feeling low emotionally, don’t take your thoughts too...
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Why Life Isn’t the Problem (…we are!)
We are the problem. We are the solution. (Image: Stockvault) The problem really isn’t life. The problem is our attitude to life. Life is simply what it is and it does what it does. It’s value neutral;...
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The Problem of Suffering
This is the first in a series of articles that will form the basis of a book to be published later in the year. It is about Jailbreaking the mind — everything I’ve ever learned about understanding the...
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A Mind At War
Understanding and Ending the Civil War in Your Mind One of the main reasons for psychological suffering, or ‘dirty pain’ (mind-created pain), is that almost everyone is fighting an inner civil war....
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A Revolutionary New Understanding of Experience and Reality
In the last post in this series, I explored the fundamental conflict at the heart of the human psyche. We’re at war! A war between who we are, who we think we are and who we are choosing to be in...
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