The Appearance Of Truth
Whatever appears to be the truth is never the truth. We live in a conflict of interests; nothing ‘out there’ or ‘in the mind’ is the truth of our reality.
We make a grave mistake when our attention is on the guru, the form, or the words. This is where humanity has been trapped in sentimentality for thousands of years.
Every country has religion at its base, whether we agree with that religion or not. Religion is a two-edged sword; it is a serpent that moves around the world whose venom can either be used as a poison or as medicine – suffering or wisdom. Suffering is when we argue about words. Wisdom is when we realise that which observes the words without comment.
Anything people say is not the truth.
The truth is personal authentication that we are pure consciousness,
and never someone else’s consciousness.
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. 
Our experience of truth is personal and private. The experience of an orange, beginning with the color, is not the same throughout the sensing/feeling/thinking world. And Buddhist say “There is no duality!” There is no duality in Einstein’s sense of the word: Energy cannot be destroyed or created, only transformed, and energy is everything. Everywhere else there is only duality. Without duality there is no consciousness, there is no seeing, which depends upon distinctions between objects and foreground and background. Etc.
Hello. In the first moment of perception, there is just seeing. No decision has been made about whatever is seen. It’s like a reflection and the mirror – they can’t be separated. That is non-duality. That is pure consciousness, our original reality, and is how a practitioner works. What usually happens is that perception refers to memory and a duality takes place. We judge. When we go into memories for reference, we are relying on theories, and this is when we live in a cycle of existence. Of course, we have to decide whether something is harmful or beneficial, but we don’t fixate on this. Dharma is breaking out of the cycle. Simply put: non-duality is pure consciousness. Tony