12 Rules for Life. 1 Stand up straight with your shoulders straight.2 Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.3 Befriend people who want the best for you.4 Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not the useless person you are today.5 Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.6… Continue reading 12 rules for Life – an antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson
Author: realityisdharma
We are not damaged goods!
Just thinkin..... We are just exactly as we were made to be: perfect human beings. We are not damaged goods! Realize this and be free. Be released from the harmful beliefs which cause us to harm ourselves and others! Accept yourself completely and free yourself from the opinions of other folks who think they are… Continue reading We are not damaged goods!
Boogeymen… why we need to be rid of them
It is really high time, that the human race dropped our fear of "boogeymen"..... we know that this irrational fear rose from our survival instincts (yikes, that grass over there is moving..... is it a lion that wants to make me his late night snack??) But it has long infected our imaginations with concepts like… Continue reading Boogeymen… why we need to be rid of them
Xu Yun ( pronounced shü yooin) and Chan information
There is so much excellent information about the history of Buddhism and Dao in China, which Xu Yun rose up thru, and straight information on the practice of Hua Tou which is the practice which he taught. imho, hua tou is the clearest practice that the western mind can fathom. https://wenshuchan-online.weebly.com/biography-master-xu-yun-1840-1959.html
Notes about Ayn Rands life
On Meditation and the Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist in Conversation
...."Psychoanalysis, for instance, contends that you need to find a way to dig into those hidden impulses and identify them, whereas Buddhist meditation teaches you to free the thoughts as they arise." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/meditation-and-the-unconscious-buddhism-neuroscience-conversation/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Human Migrations – Excellent Resource Material
The diversion from our Inner Fullness……. is Neediness
Neediness is the mind being hungry for an object. Neediness.... the single most dangerous diversion from our inner balance. Sneaky little devil that it is....... Neediness is not associated with our 5 senses, although it tricks us into thinking it is. Neediness is the mind being hungry for an object. And how do we not… Continue reading The diversion from our Inner Fullness……. is Neediness
What is the purpose of our lives?
Why do we humans exist as individual beings? Our "meaning and purpose" is being alive and directly experiencing life and the awe of nature from the perspective of an individual being. We do this by directly living in our sense world of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. (has been called absorption in the one)… Continue reading What is the purpose of our lives?
Oceanic Awareness as an explanation for everything which Exists
Is there a system in everything we see?Scientists fear this question, because if they say yes, then the religion folks jump on them and say that the system is some sort of intelligent design(er).... ie. Some sort of god. So, instead they (not all of them, but as a group) lean away from admitting that… Continue reading Oceanic Awareness as an explanation for everything which Exists