The Complete Picture

When we go to any spiritual centre of any tradition, we need to know what it’s really all about.

It’s about our mind, rather than what others are doing, believing or performing. Mimicking them is a psychological ambush, and it’s an easy trap to fall into. All the concern we had about the outside world us repeated in spiritual centres – but now it’s even more intense. 🙂

To see the complete picture, we have to be aware of being awareness, which is also being aware of the thoughts affecting our mind. Pure mind is pure consciousness. It has no concepts; it is purely aware. Contaminated mind is consciousness which attaches itself to ideas, creating a museum of others’ thoughts. The accumulation of these thoughts creates an I, an ego.

You are pure consciousness. You do not have pure consciousness; it’s what you are. In this realisation, there is no ‘you’ identity.

Our original state is pure being which comes before pure observation, before being aware of experience. Through the practice of meditation, awareness realises that its essence is pure.

Through habit, however, we refer our memory museum to identify and express our experiences. This is why we go round in circles, and this is how pure experience becomes contaminated.

Everything else is an illusion, where people walk around in a simulated holiness.

That which is called Mara is the demonic mind of “Trust me”. It wants you to perform by feigning awareness, which is consciousness attaching itself to ideas. We become Mara by trying to put others ‘right’.

Just observe; don’t follow.

The complete picture isn’t a matter of learning rituals and convoluted explanations. It’s simply realising what we are, then going about our life without over-reacting, which reduces the effect of the past actions that have kept us moving in perpetual circles.

Realising this, we ascend the levels
– not by moving up,
but by eliminating the mud of concepts.