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Meditation Gaze In meditation, the eyes are either open or half-open, so as not to be cut off from the world. Panoramic vision is taking in the scene all at once – not looking, just seeing – as if whatever … Continue reading →

Understanding Confusion Confusion is twisting ideas together to confound and defeat an aim. A little truth, a little lie, until we don’t know which is which, like the growing presence of AI videos, writing and speech. We are confused because … Continue reading →

Frustrated At Being Frustrated Even though we may have an inkling that we are consciousness and that ideas control our behaviour, we can still get frustrated with people. Compassion is challenging. 🙂 There’s no point in being told, “Don’t get … Continue reading →

AI The Next Religion The next ingenious reset. Intellectual dependency will make people treat AI as a divine voice, accepting its outputs without question. This mirrors historical concerns about religious dogmatism leading to intellectual passivity. Passivity: the state of being … Continue reading →

We Should All Ask, “What If I’m Wrong?” “What if I’m wrong?” Then look again.The looking can’t be wrong. We recognise that awareness is present.That can’t be wrong. The interpretation of whatever is seen can be mistaken,but pure awareness is … Continue reading →

Consciousness Is Not A Religion Consciousness is what we are, and we are not a religion. Religion is partiality; it’s something organised for people to follow and belong to. All groups have an aim of group-talk, group-think. This isn’t being … Continue reading →

The End Of Occupation Whatever is occupying our mind is from the past that’s affecting our judgments now. This causes consciousness to be stressed and upset because it sees a bleak future. Holding on to ideas turns consciousness into a … Continue reading →

Under The Impression That Life Should Agreeable? Do we think that life has to be enjoyable and pleasurable,and that we should have the same opinions as everyone else? What if we don’t find life enjoyable?What if we see others as deluded? In practice, we neither accept … Continue reading →

The Inability To Recognise Evil The inability to recognise evil makes us useless students of truth. It is through recognising suffering and confusion– and the cause of suffering and confusion –that we traverse the path to enlightenment. It is not … Continue reading →

People Say They’re Not A Spiritual Person We may not like a word such as ‘spiritual’ because of the connotations it conjures up. I once heard a student say to the teacher, “I don’t like the word emptiness – I … Continue reading →

Has Humanity Been Lied To? Has humanity been lied to?According to AI, yes. Has humanity been lied to?“Yes, evidence indicates humanity has been, and continues to be, subjected to significant lies, historical revisionism, and misinformation across politics, science, and history. … Continue reading →

Made In Another’s Image The danger is not that machines will think like man,but that man will think like machines. The danger was not that books reflect man,but that man reflects books. Unless we truly know what we are,we will … Continue reading →

Finding The Ego Maintaining an ego:we need a little ego. Ego is consciousness attaching itself to ideas in the mind, creating a sense of pride in a self. With such pride, we can do all sorts of things – marvellous … Continue reading →

The Dharma is beyond sleep.Or … it can put you to sleep. Dharma is our natural wakeful state of pure consciousness, the wondrous essence of our being. But when Dharma becomes a religion, a form is created with lots of … Continue reading →

Integrating Every Moment– Chögyal Namkhai Norbu By integrating every moment of your life, you are beyond meditation and non-meditation. Although meditation is helpful, if we want to continuously be in our real nature, meditation alone is not sufficient. Normally we … Continue reading →

Accepting And Rejecting Has Consequences A practitioner of pure consciousness neither accepts nor rejects whatever comes their way. This is the path to enlightenment. Everything as as illusion of reality; this seeing that everything is an illusion is the reminder … Continue reading →

Artificial Dharma AI is presenting Dharma, but remember that it’s just words; there is no experience behind those words. It scans the web and produces its verdict. AI has no compassion and no wisdom – anyone who just repeats word … Continue reading →

The Light That Dispels Darkness Light: the clarity of pure consciousness; the empty essence of mind.Dispel: make a doubt, feeling, or belief disappear.Darkness: the mental furniture, fixtures and fittings, memories, programming in the mind that constructs a self-image. Our reality is … Continue reading →

Internet AI Mode Definition… continued and continued This AI text creates questions: “The ‘Witness’: It is often described as the silent observer or ‘that which knows’ that persists through all experiences. “Non-Dual Reality: It is Advaita Vedanta, non-dual, infinite awareness … Continue reading →

Internet AI Mode Definition continued A illustration of a mistaken view. From the AI text: “The ‘Witness’: It is often described as the silent observer or ‘that which knows’ that persists through all experiences. “Non-Dual Reality: It is Advaita Vedanta, … Continue reading →

Internet AI Mode Definition We do not know, until we practise knowing, and realise the truth beyond the words. Be aware that words can be omitted or addedand the meaning changed– something that has happened throughout history. The following is … Continue reading →

It’s Creepy – Literally Creep: move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.Creepy: causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease. Ever wondered why you feel ill-at-ease with life, society, and people sleep walking into disaster after disaster, both politically … Continue reading →

Compassion Is Honouring Another’s Journey Compassion is honouring another’s journey. This calls for insight into another person’s true beingand their struggles to be what they are. We are all pure consciousness. If Gurus and Lamas – precious ones – cannot … Continue reading →

Beings Put To Sleep When we become dependent,we are bound to others’ ideas, and put to sleep. We can function, but it’s really sleep walking and sleep talking about how we aren’t functioning properly. When we find that we can’t … Continue reading →

Knowingness And Awareness These two words can be synonymous, and they can also be seen as different. Just being aware, we can fall into vacancy, forgetting that knowingness is present. This is why we sometimes say ‘awareness of awareness’; it … Continue reading →

Creating Artificial People Artificial intelligence repeats words it has learnt.If we just repeat words we’ve learnt, we are artificial people.This is a bit of a shock. The only difference between AI and AP is speed.However, functioning in an artificial world … Continue reading →

Belief Is The Weapon Of Evil Belief is acceptance without proof.This is so insidious that we even say, “Seeing is believing”.We are befuddled by illogic. Proof is realised by testing through practice, and then we actually know. The Buddha said, … Continue reading →