The Buddha’s Teaching Is Psychology

The nature of mind.

It’s not a religion. It’s not about being holy. It’s not trying to convince people.
It’s just revealing that we are, first and foremost, consciousness. We may call it ‘spiritual’, but that is because consciousness isn’t material – or anything physical. It’s not a ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ that we have – we don’t have consciousness, we are consciousness itself.

Seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing, touching aren’t spiritual. These are the senses, wide open, and our commentaries on these events are mental, and not spiritual.

Understanding the nature of mind is being practical, where we know what is worthwhile doing and what is not.

If we are materialistic people, every thing is important to us, and we have some thing to argue against and complain about. People take political or religious views, and defend those opposing, material views. This is all psychology.

The ultimate psychology is pure consciousness, where there is no thing to play with. When we understand this, things are merely trivia to which we’ve become partial.

‘Holy’ just means whole, complete. 
Pure consciousness is complete.

When we make it into some thing, 
it isn’t complete any more.
It’s partial.

Pure psychology doesn’t need a special hat.
🙂