Ian Gardner's Blog (176)

Not many years ago scientists started observing that the results of an experiment were affected by the observer; they found that the same experiment conducted by different people produced slightly different results. To the non-scientist mystic this is to be expected because of their awareness of the reality that the subject of the experiment is an illusion [as is…

Sunshine breaking through a cloud is like enlightenment breaking through the moul.

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Beneath the dust of time you lie,

Not on Earth or in blue sky

But in the timelessness of IT

Which creates us all plus quite a bit.…

No thing matters. What matters is what one does with any thing and what any thing does to one.

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Love is the means to the end not the end in itself.

Love, true love, is part of the duality of which selfishness, the “I”, is the other part.

Thus, love, when cultivated as the antidote to selfishness, aids in one’s passage to full enlightenment without being full enlightenment or part of…

Non-attachment is the key to contentment and inner peace.

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What is important for spiritual growth is “process” not “substance”. The first is necessary and the second is interesting.

Full enlightenment can be attained by process without substance.

Process = Living: attitude and action.

Substance =…

Offence belongs to its creator and not to the target so be non-attached to offence aimed at you in the realisation that it is not yours.…

The fact of karma cannot be accepted selectively.

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When you are really interested in delving into the truth of something ask yourself either “Why?” or “How?” and having got the answer continue to ask yourself one of these questions until you can answer no more. At this point you will have reached the limit of your ability and may have the answer, or reached your inherent capacity and do have the answer. In this…

Wealth used for self-indulgence is a karmic burden. Wealth used for the benefit of others is a karmic liberation.

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The Moul is like a patchwork fabric of attachments. When it loses someone or some thing to which it has a close attachment a patch is torn out with the rent leaving both a tear and a space: both the tear and the empty space are painful although the pain and feeling of loss diminish over time as the space covers over.

The degree of…

When one is able to separate Spirit from the Moul one can do these things:

Observe the menting of the moul and if necessary check the moul before the menting becomes action.

Observe the menting of the moul but be unable to check the moul before the menting becomes action.…

Avoiding life and death is impossible.

Avoiding birth is possible.

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The pursuit by many of “fun” and excitement in all their manifestations is a subconscious attempt to escape the challenges of Earthly life. This is delusion as the only “escape” is to avoid birth*.

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Whether words are written or stated by king, scholar, sage or unknown peasant is not important. What is important is the value we see in them.

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In the “now” there is no expectation, regret, fear or guilt: there is simply “being”, simply “I am”.

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After discovering the Truth, and recognizing it as such, live it!

As you live it, it becomes you and you become it – that is enlightenment.…

Being content is contentedly accepting one’s present state of being, and not being satisfied is accepting that there is more to be accomplished and allowing that to happen in its own time.…

If whilst living life you can be detached from it you will feel wonderful and, yes, be wonder full!

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