The Voice In Our Head
The voice in our head is not our own; it’s a personal instruction manual that we’ve picked up from others, causing communal confusion. We assume that these words are ours – an expression of ourself – but this mind is just a recording machine. To realise this is a total shocking.
We’ve turned into echo machines, telling other people what we think, and thus becoming a conveyor of misinformation. All the while, it is consciousness which is listening to these recordings.
The essence of consciousness is unadulterated pure wisdom. It’s never a voice, but the voices don’t want us to know this. They want us to complain – “They’re doing it all wrong!” – while the commentary actually all in our head.
We stop the voices by pulling out the plug. The plug is the energy of interest and attraction, and boredom is the result of seeing the constant, never-ending desire. This sort of boredom is not a lethargy; it’s that life is no longer an entertainment – a facsimile of reality.
The reality is the observation,
which has nothing to do with whatever is observed.
Trinkets in this ear, trinkets in that ear … when will it ever end?
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BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
great points Tony. My experience is that seeing what we are – pure consciousness becomes ever easier the more we meditate but what I find is that it’s not easy staying conscious though beyond the meditation practice itself ie throughout the day when ‘life’ is happening . This is maybe explained by the fact that 95%-99% of the time we are being run by our subconscious programs of likes and dislikes etc . Your blogs help redress that balance a little but how can we shift the balance the other way round so that we are aware of our pure consciousness 95% of the time rather than 5%?
Hello,
Just being aware is pure consciousness.
There are ideas out there that pure consciousness or pure awareness is something super-duper, but in fact it’s being natural and quite ordinary.
It is just seeing, smiling, tasting, feeling, hearing, as the senses are non-conceptual, without the usual mental commentaries.
Our communications with things and people become mindful and empathetic.
To put it simply – you’re already there!
Pure consciousness is always already present.
We habitually doubt, because it’s all made too complicated.
Have a great new year. 🙂
Tony
When consciousness identifies with any sensation, and hangs on to it, a duality is created.
Non-duality is just letting be, being one with whatever occurs.
Duality is exoteric. Non-duality is esoteric.
Tony