Strange Reluctance
This article explores the serious subject of our species strange reluctance to wake up and become aware of the world as it truly is. The purpose of course is always the achievement of greater awareness and a higher level of consciousness concerning the true nature of ... Views: 1075
Caught In A Trap We Built
La La Land, an abstract conceptual version of reality that we built with one of our greatest powers for the purposes of helping us deal with the complexities of the material world. But in time, it began to control and consume more and more of our power until it now ... Views: 1058
Is It Real?
We explore the frontiers of land, sea, space, the relative universe and the quantum universe, but only a relative few ever think of exploring the mind, and many of them are limited by a specific agenda. Why do we not expend large amounts of resources to explore the most important ... Views: 1057
The Unruly Mind
Learning how to free ourselves from the tyranny of the unruly mind is not easy. Most of us have been the victims of the chaos of our own mind for so long that we don't even recognize that there is a need to do anything about it. What problem? Yet in a very real sense we are ... Views: 1033
Reality? What Reality?
Meditation can be a double edged tool. It can reveal the nature of actual reality, but in doing so it also reveals many other states of consciousness that we experience as real but are not usually aware of their true nature, depending on our present level of awareness. ... Views: 1031
Mind, The Two Edged Blade
The idea that all of our experiences including mental, emotional and physical are determined by the activities of our mind, suggests that our ability to be aware of and manage those activities is of critical importance. But our mind can be tricky, subtle, evasive, ... Views: 1001
The Origins Of Concepts
Most of us use the terms success and happiness without having a clue what they really are and where they come from. We talk about them as if they are a condition or commodity that we can purchase or trade. We think they come from material wealth, satisfying ... Views: 996
Personal Responsibility Or Personal Gratification
The Buddha said that we own our actions, that we are the heirs of our actions and that we are defined by our actions. This is in fact a perfect definition of personal responsibility, but since most humans occupying the planet today are ... Views: 986
Stress Anxiety And The Price We May Be Paying
It is critical for us to understand the relationship between the natural condition of stress and the unnatural condition of anxiety and how we manage them, because of the unseen price we pay. So many of us have accepted this situation as nothing ... Views: 983
The Nature Of Power
The idea that the source and foundation of all things is energy, is not new. Even the idea that objects of reality are basically varying vibrations of energy is not new. But without the idea, does anything exist? And if ideas are created from thought and thought is an ... Views: 968
The No Win Scenario
Weight control and management, or any other problematic behavior pattern that adversely affect our lives, are sometimes difficult to overcome because they not only have established themselves over time and through the extremely powerful effects of conditioning, but also ... Views: 932