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Realisation Shrinks The Need For Many Words Examples: Not two. The unity of appearance and recognition. Pure consciousness. These each contain the complete Dharma. Beginners like collecting words, but the truth is never in words.

The Beginners And The Advanced Beginners adore complexity. The advanced realise simplicity. Beginners collect words and names. The advanced see everything as one taste.

Why Do We Cut Ourselves Off From Others? Why do we resist reaching out? ‘Reaching out’ means to initiate contact to offer help, seek connection, or communicate. When we join a group, become a type, hold a belief, we adhere … Continue reading →

Making A Culture and Replacing a Culture Culture: the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society. A culture is created by a certain type of temperament which is the code for that society. Some are noisy, others are quiet. A problem … Continue reading →

Observation Versus Observer One is absolute reality; the other is relative reality. When there is just observation, at that infinitesimal moment, there is no I, no self, no observer present. There is just pure observation. No relating is happening. This … Continue reading →

Life Is A Conveyor Belt Of Industrial Intellectualisation We can only laugh at ourselves when we actually get off. 🙂 Most of us die without knowing the journey we’ve been on. We play the game of oneupmanship, all the while … Continue reading →

Why Write A Blog Not everyone wants to consider the truth of their being. People either belong to an idea, or speculate, or aren’t bothered – and realising the truth takes a lot of practice and testing. Absolute truth is … Continue reading →

People Are Out Of Control When we over-react through emotions, we are out of control. Emotions are created by our mood and our relationship with others. Pride is a juicy emotion, and there are influencers who feed off our pride. … Continue reading →

There Is A Flaw In Me Thinking “It’s all about me” is the imperfection. The flaw is claiming to be a self which is merely a ghost in the mind. This me doesn’t actually exist. Once we realise the flaw, … Continue reading →

Never Wake A Sleeping Person I was told years ago never to wake a sleeping person, and I’ve wondered about this ever since. If we talk to a sleeping person, the response will either be blankness or hostility. Sleeping people … Continue reading →

Not Playing With A Full Deck Of Cards ‘Not playing with a full deck of cards’ means that we are not thinking clearly. We use words in a limited way, repeating them day after day like a mantra, which restricts … Continue reading →

Pottering And Chattering Classes Potter: occupy oneself in a desultory but pleasant way. Desultory: lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm: going from one subject to another in a half-hearted way. Chatter: talk informally about unimportant matters. Also electronic or radio communication, especially between individuals being monitored by a government agency as a result … Continue reading →

In Pure Consciousness, Everyone Is Equal In the eyes of pure consciousness, everyone is equal, meaning that we all have the potential for enlightenment, which is the clarity of being, our original state. As such, we are nothing special. When … Continue reading →

Clearing All Doubt We want to know about everything. This addiction never satisfies, and life feels meaningless. Our desire to know obscures that which already knows – that which is asking the questions. That is the ultimate answer. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

Do Dharma Practitioners Experience Anger? Do Dharma practitioners experience anger? Yes, of course. Seeing all the injustice and subterfuge in the world, who wouldn’t? The very moment when anger arises, however, is the moment the mind brightens, and the wisdom … Continue reading →

How Would You Subjugate The World? How would you subjugate the world? What would you do to make everyone obey you – or even disobey you, in order to obey you by creating conflict? Build confusion. Now look at the … Continue reading →

Caught In A Paradigm Of Belief Once a belief is established in the mind, this infiltrates all experience. If we fight against belief, it’s therefore still governing us. It’s a conundrum that colours the language and jargon we use when … Continue reading →

Perception Comes Before Deception Before we judge anything, there has to be pure perception present first. We miss this moment of pure being. We are quick to judge because we judge from memories which obscure pure perception. These memories are … Continue reading →