The Everydayness Of Buddhism

The essence of the Buddha’s teaching is without elaborations; there is no other. It is moment-to-moment pure awareness. No burden of VAT – value added tax. The Buddha realised the singularity of the Vedas – no Brahman and no Atman. Just infinite pure consciousness.

If we see teachings as special – belonging specifically to a particular person or place – we miss the realisation that the truth is that we are what we seek. There are many approaches to truth, but in the end, there is only pure consciousness.

The only ‘elaboration’ is our karma, our locked-in burdens. This is what we need release from, and that is the everydayness of practice in acknowledging the pointlessness of our usual over-reaction … getting upset over nothing, overexcited, going too far, acting irrationally, losing our sense of proportion, exaggerating …

Remember:
the Buddha wasn’t Buddhist,
just enlightened, sans burdens.