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orns hooting and tooting like flocks of geese in a poultry market shym is driving i m in the back an opportunity for me to consider how difficult all this could be confrontations up front and in close brinkmanship give and take becomes push and shove not enough space no room to move scarred and scratched vehicles smashed rear lights dented bumpers trumpets blare somebody blocking the lane get out of the way insist on it thru the sheer force of horn blasts plaaaaah peeee pap pap pap everybody gets into it scenarios of outrage high octave shouting in a language i don t understand then shym starts singing in hindi a voice with trembling vibrato maybe i should ask what s that nice song he s singing and we can have some light conversation but i see his hands gripping the steering wheel white knuckling it a sense of the radiant nuclear fury of the sun this is how it must have been in the wild west except they had guns the ever present sound and odour of gunfire young cowboys wearing holstered revolvers and composure like stainless steel somebody loses their cool chairs fly away and everybody dives for cover under the tables things being as they are it takes longer to get to the house than planned driving with extra caution through these hair trigger hazards in delhi traffic and me with these whispered voices i try not to listen to voices telling me it shouldn t be like this and seeking calm steadiness in the intention to be mindful remembering to disengage the automatic irritation response just notice it yep that s it and leave it alone let sleeping dogs lie cause effect is this is the result of something that happened in the past whatever that was caused this and what caused that cause there must have been another cause and this is the effect of that effect then and before that cause another cause same thing my presence here me is the result of a very long cause effect sequence stretching all the way back through the ages to the big bang the original cause or was there something that caused that i am here as a result of generations of those who came before me believing it was an inevitability destiny tattooed on one s forehead going about their lives and managing likes dislikes the desire to have want and get away from the kamma of not seeing it not seeing that there s an end to kamma so everything is holding together reasonably well and we reach home in the end out of the car hi everyone i m okay yes thanks just been sitting in an aircraft economy class seat all night into the house drop bags where i stand and collapse on the sofa it s been three weeks but feels longer three buddhist monasteries a funeral and a wedding and the 4000 year old stone circle in ne scotland i came back to india to take a rest from all that watch the breathing heartbeat all a flutter lying here in the horizontal position there s a trembling vibration running through my body is it the sofa the floor raise my head is it an earthquake look around no indications of it nothing falls off the shelves not an earthquake just life itself first published august 2 2014 in its fullest sense liberation from kamma is liberation from cause and effect in the mind it s a process of mentally emotionally stepping back from any state and seeing it just as a state without reactions and attitudes this simple skill which most of us can do from time to time is what we develop in buddhist practice ajahn sucitto kamma and the end of kamma share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr more share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in the now moment tagged anatta anicca awareness buddhism conscious awareness conscious experience letting go loving kindness metta mindfulness non duality tipping point posted on may 14 2026 by tiramit 0 old notebooks 220 first published august 26 2016 chiang mai a long story short is that i fell gravity got me it gets us all in the end friends took me to a chiang mai hospital flactured lib the x ray man said with dodgy pronunciation of the l and r sounds they took me home but later that night i was having such an awful time struggling with pain family members took me back to the hospital i had an injection and spent the night there the self is a sensory experience everything i see hear smell taste touch feel and think and cognition too is a sense that responds to stimuli received through the senses i inhabit a simulation not possible to see it any other way well it is possible you could see it another way but it d just be seeing the same thing another way there s something about this that s obvious so clear and evident yet again and again when i look for it it s not there the answer i seek is difficult to find because the seeking it occupies the place where the seeing it is needs to be what happened well i d had in fact two falls the first was straight back over past the tipping point and down crash my phn headache meds have something to do with that the second fall was some hours later when getting up too quickly from the lying down position then forgetting about the pain in the lower back attempting to allow for that in mid air and the whole thing came down with a spectacular crash colliding with some hard edged furniture on the way and that s what did it for the rib awareness of these disorientating pain meds means i now go carefully the world is a perilous place mindfulness is a necessity if the i construct isn t what this is what is it then i can change the pronoun from me to it but it s the same thing only there s an it that recognizes its self i need to allow the mind to clear itself and there again the word itself no it and no self is getting in the way of the buddhist anatta no self nobody at home where am i now it s not working because the effort to create no self results in a mind running around everywhere taking selfies you could say in different places and with various friends smile please pose click and take another one okay clicick and it s happy doing this but deep down it s not really satisfied seeking always for a way to become whatever it is that is permanent happiness but it ll never happen everywhere i look there s another self seeking an identity and becoming that form seeking the next opportunity to become is the default aspiration could be that this is what holds beings in the cycle of rebirth the apparent reality of the mind body and world is imagined with the thought that thinks it in other words the constructs of thought that is the beliefs we have about the mind body and world are only real for thought itself rupert spira share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr more share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in the now moment tagged anatta anicca awareness buddhism conscious awareness conscious experience letting go loving kindness metta mindfulness non duality metta loving kindness posted on may 11 2026 by tiramit 0 old notebooks valentine s day 2013 all you need is love love love is all you need the problem is if you love that person you can t love that other person as much so you have to manage all the likes dislikes and unlikes friend and unfriend too the stormy weather of loving one thing completely and other things not at all but how can we love everything the practice of mettā holds all beings in loving kindness all phenomena all sentient beings we contemplate in terms of loving kindness okay but it s not easy to love everything yep some things aren t very lovable lovability potential zero no matter how much i try i can t love that thing sorry no i can t do it but what i can do is have mettā for the feeling that i can t do it i can have loving kindness for my resistance to loving the unloved being open to all conditioned experience with an attitude of kindness and accepting things as they are this is the practice of mettā the aversion i experience is not so much about the unloved thing itself it s about me struggling to accept the reality of it being there mettā is about non aversion if i have aversion for the unloved it just exacerbates the situation allow it in to conscious awareness the unlovedness let it be there and just know this feeling as it is now okay so i leap into a state of aversion as soon as i open up to it like that but i have mettā for that state too i can come back later try again i can be patient with this condition as it is right now in this present moment having mettā means allowing it to be i m not interacting with it i m just willing to be with it it s the same as everything else its nature is impermanent it changes breaks down crumbles into pieces and it s gone i m not looking for the natural cessation of it though that s not the goal i m just allowing it to be as it is accepting that and bit by bit there s a release of the tension caused by me resisting the presence of the unloved that s the point of the exercise the effort to get away from the unloved restimulates the discomfort and negative emotion starts building up again even so there ll be times when it s possible to just receive the experience without resisting it i see then this is the way to go loving the unloved over time things begin to change there s a willingness to let everything be as it is pleasant feelings and unpleasant feelings i can have mettā for all the negativity locked away inside opening the door letting it all go freedom the heart isn t heavy with dislike blame and resentment instead a sense of lightness and well being first published february 14 2013 by reminding ourselves to have metta for the feelings we experience not thinking about them or analysing them but going to the place in the body itself to the mental quality really embracing that really being willing to feel those particular emotions they become bearable by changing our attitude to one of acceptance rather than of rejection to interest rather than just wanting to get rid of them we find that they are things we can tolerate then they cease on their own for all conditions are impermanent universal loving kindness by ajahn sumedho forest sangha newsletter october 1997 number 42 share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr more share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading posted in the now moment tagged anatta anicca awareness buddhism conscious awareness conscious experience letting go loving kindness metta mindfulness non duality post navigation older posts archives archives select month june 2026 4 may 2026 8 april 2026 9 march 2026 10 february 2026 8 january 2026 10 december 2025 9 november 2025 8 october 2025 9 september 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