Breaking Free from the Illusions of the Mind: Why Believing Your Thoughts Leads to Suffering and Disappointment

Thoughts are fleeting impressions, born out of the mind's endless engagement with memory, imagination, and interpretation. They are like clouds passing through the sky—transient, insubstantial, and often misleading. Yet, many of us grant them the power of truth, believing thought as though it holds some undeniable reality about ourselves, others, or the world.

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Transcending political divides is vital to dismantle entrenched power structures and cultivate wisdom-driven change. Explore how understanding, unity, and systemic transformation can break cycles of exploitation and foster lasting progress.

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The Illusion of the Knower - The Silent Awareness Beyond Knowing - The Trap of Identifying with the Knower - Nondual Experience: Beyond Knowing and Not Knowing - Living Without the Knower - The Eternal Witness

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Ibn Arabi’s Wahdat al-Wujud transcends the confines of time, offering a vision of existence that is as relevant today as it was in his era. By framing life as an eternal unfolding of divine reality, his teachings invite us to move beyond the illusions of separation and embrace the interconnectedness of all things. For the modern seeker, his philosophy is not merely a theoretical construct but a transformative guide, providing clarity and purpose in a fragmented world.

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It is time we recognize that without wisdom, politics will continue to fail. With wisdom, however, we have the chance to create a fairer, more sustainable, and harmonious world—for ourselves and future generations.

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You are not the body, not the mind, not the roles you play. You are the awareness in which all these arise and fade. Have the firm conviction that you are pure Consciousness, and rest in the infinite peace that this understanding brings.

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The time for silence is over. We stand on the brink of annihilation, with the specter of nuclear war looming over all humanity. This is not a distant or abstract threat—it has become horrifyingly real with the recent escalating conflict in Ukraine.

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The second part of Freedom is not the same as Freedom; how different cultures understand freedom. We in the West tend to believe that our understanding of freedom is the highest form, but that's only a high form of ignorance, to think this way. In fact, most people in the world interpret freedom differently.

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Perhaps instead of focusing so much on AI versus HI, we should be looking for the best way to collaborate—and just leave the "Terminator" scenarios out of the equation.

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Since ancient times, keepers of life’s deepest secrets have passed down the knowledge: “You become what you believe” to those who walk the path of wisdom. In spiritual traditions, belief is recognized as a powerful force that shapes reality.

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In this article, I would like to look at poverty from two different perspectives. On the one hand, it is inevitability in the context of human consciousness, and on the other hand, it is an opportunity for change.

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This is about formulating an alternative and showing ways to implement it. And this alternative has a name: conscious wisdom.

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The concept of freedom in Buddhism is spiritual. This does not mean that worldly matters are negated, but political and individual freedom are secondary, similar to the Chinese view. In Buddhism, freedom is liberation from Samsara to end the cycle of suffering.

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Freedom is an idea, not reality itself. That’s why we have different understandings of freedom in different cultures.

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The integral consciousness is the radical shift where life becomes the centre of life, and not humans.

The highest form of human existence. Bliss. Cosmic Consciousness. Enlightenment.

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When we desire more than enough, we feed a system that creates poverty at all levels. Rethinking poverty requires us to relinquish the desire to become rich and to recognize that life itself is more than enough.

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Life is a multidimensional happening—a dynamic event unfolding simultaneously on all levels and states, and this in no time.

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When you recognise yourself in one single breath, you got a glimpse of your true nature. But in the moment of making it ours, it is lost.

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The key to ending this madness lies in elevating our awareness. It is the only way to stop the brutal cycle of "the strongest does whatever he wants.

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