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YOUR ENLIGHTENMENT IS A THREAT TO THE STATUS QUO

9/5/2019

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Graham Hancock Word Porn

"Our society is absolutely designed to shut down 90% of the potential of the human creature. Why should it be the case that society is afraid of realising human potential and what it comes down to is special interests, that there are those who run things in society and that there are those who are there to kind of serve them and serve their ends and serve their needs.

And so, what our society has created is a realm of unquestioning meat robots who will perform their daily tasks without complaining and without causing any trouble, and that may be very useful to certain small interest groups but it's extremely damaging to the rest of humanity, Once we realise our potential we don't need elites anymore, who needs elites - who needs to be led. This is another revelation that comes from working with psychedelics is that we do not need leaders, they are not over us telling us what to do, they may imagine that that's what their doing but they have no right to do that.

And the moment we begin to wake up and start asking really profound questions about the nature of reality and about the society that we live in, their power is instantly diminished and I think that's why we've seen such vigour and real nasty unpleasantness put into this horrible wicked thing called the war on drugs which is being used as an excuse to enter the inner sanctum of peoples lives. See, if i'm not sovereign over my own consciousness, if I can't make free choices about my own consciousness, if I can't make those free choices while doing no harm to others then I am not free, in any useful or meaningful sense.
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And, the moment that I free myself then I become a danger to those who run things in the world, anybody who has seen led to question the nature of things profoundly as a result of psychedelics is a danger to the status QUO. We risk being thrown in prison, we risk having our reputations destroyed - if the powers that be enter our home and find that we're using psychedelics, I mean this is really Orwellian World that we've created, how dare some guy in a suit sitting in government tell me to what to do with my consciousnesses.

We must be free to make decisions over our own consciousness always with the proviso that we do no harm to others and any government any state agency that attempts to limit our freedom over our own consciousness - is itself an agency of darkness and control."

Author: Graham Hancock

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Elon Musk Covers A lot of Ground with Joe Rogan

9/7/2018

 

The Joe Rogan Experience with Elon Musk

Does Your Brain Hallucinate Your Conscious Reality?

9/6/2018

 

Why Reality May Be Just A Trip

According to Neuroscientist Anil Seth


Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.

Better to Face the Music

7/22/2018

 
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The person resolute in the Way must strive not to lose sight of it, whether in a place of calm or in a place of strife. Beware of clinging to quiet places and shunning those where there is disturbance. If you try to take refuge from trouble by running to some quiet place, you will fall into confusion.

- Daikaku (1213-1279)

Six pieces of advice

12/22/2017

 
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Through the gateway of the senses

11/25/2017

 
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When we cleanse our perceptions of grasping and attachment, we experience a universe that is infinite, awakened, and full of delight. Lions Roar features Francesca Fremantle on sight, sound, touch, and other miracles.

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Essays In Idleness

10/7/2017

 
 ESSAYS IN IDLENESS by The Surezuregusa of Kenko
If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. Consider living creatures—none lives so long as man. The May fly waits not for the evening, the summer cicada knows neither spring nor autumn. What a wonderfully unhurried feeling it is to live even a single year in perfect serenity! If that is not enough for you, you might live a thousand years and still feel it was but a single night's dream. We cannot live forever in this world; why should we wait for ugliness to over take us? The longer man lives, the more shame he endures. To die, at the latest, before one reaches forty, is the least unattractive. Once a man passes that age, he desires (with no sense of shame over his appearance) to mingle in the company of others. In his sunset years he dotes on his grandchildren, and prays for long life so that he may see them prosper. His preoccupation with worldly desires grows ever deeper, and gradually he loses all
sensitivity to the beauty of things, a lamentable state of affairs.


*from ESSAYS IN IDLENESS by The Surezuregusa of Kenko. Translated by Donald Keene

What the Monkey In Your Mind Will show you...

9/27/2017

 
Monkey Mind as Teacher

If you become frustrated while meditating because your mind is busy swinging like a monkey from thought to thought to thought, you should recognize that the very fact that you are watching the tangle of thoughts in your head is an amazing gift of enlightenment.  By observing mind activity, your are watching from the seat of your true nature, separate from thoughts. Let the monkey swing. When you realize that you have been distracted, promptly return your awareness to the breath. Every time you do this, you are rewiring the brain, so that with enough practice, the distractions will diminish and you will remain more and more permanently rooted in the pure and peaceful state of natural awareness.   -MD 

When Meditating...

9/6/2017

 
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How your brain fucks with your mind

8/19/2017

 

Hooked on a Feeling

*Taken from a booklet I shared with clients when I worked with people struggling with mental health and addiction issues.

Let’s start with a fact: What you choose to think is what you will feel and what you feel is how you will act. If you think this way on a daily basis and therefore feel this way on a daily basis, eventually your body becomes addicted to this feeling and begins to crave it.
 

Knowing that your thoughts have a profound effect on your emotions is a primary ingredient to every recovery success story of people just like you and from all walks of life.  I urge you to invest yourself in this knowledge.  Read it, know it, memorize it if you must.  I can assure you that it will produce profound and amazing results in all facets of your life.

With the majority of people I have worked with, one consistent response when presenting this idea is, “But I can’t change how I think.  This is who I am, like it or leave it.”  It doesn’t matter whether or not I or anyone else likes or dislikes it.  What should matter to you is how it makes YOU feel. More importantly, you CAN change how you think. It has been proven by science to be a fact.  Here’s how it works:

Inside your brain, there is a tiny chemical factory called the hypothalamus.  It may be tiny, but it is one of the most productive chemical factories in production on the planet! The hypothalamus produces chemicals called peptides.  These peptides are created to duplicate specific emotions, such as: joy, sadness, excitement, fear, relaxation, stress, anger or depression.
 
From the hypothalamus, the peptides are sent to the pituitary gland and then out into the blood stream which contains anywhere from twenty to thirty trillion cells. Each cell has receptor sites.  The peptides dock onto the receptor sites, taking control of the cell, and eventually creating new cells with more receptor sites ready and waiting for that particular type of peptide.

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Leaning into Weariness

8/19/2017

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Be the master of your mind rather than mastered by it.
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"I can't go on.
You must go on.
 I'll go on."
- Samuel Becket
Whatever state of mind has you calm, centered, quiet, and aware - this should be your mental posture.
Whether you are in motion or at rest, maintain your mental posture at all times, steady as she goes, regardless of the task at hand. The ineffable teaching of all teachings resides within this. -md

* Read The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Interdependence

7/11/2017

 
Interesting blog post by Brian Thompson.  Excerpt below.

Within each thing, are many things.

It’s a sublime and enlightened teaching of non-duality that is clearly expressed through the following verse:

“This is, because that is.
This is not, because that is not.
This ceases to be, because that ceases to be.”
When we apply this teaching into our lives, we gain deeper insight into the true nature of things. We begin to understand that nothing is an island unto itself. No thing is separate all on its own, and that no thing is completely self-contained or self-reliant. Everything that is, exists solely because of other events that have also co-arisen. All things are dependent upon cause and effect. This is true not only for our physical actions, but so too with all of our mental formations and the emotional happenings within our mind.

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It's never just one thing.  Nothing arises from itself alone.
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Fig. 1 Young lady or old hag?
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Fig. 2 A vase or two faces?

Neither exists without the other.  Together, they are one whole.

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