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We Do Not Arrive At Enlightenment … … as we never left! Enlightenment here means realising or acknowledging our true nature of pure consciousness, and that which obscures it; the ideas that we create about our self. Any other definition … Continue reading →

Tsoknyi Rinpoche – The Pointing Out Instruction 2020  Pundarika UK Easter Retreat. 30th March  – 5th April. 2020 Bruton School for Girls, Bruton, Somerset. This will be an open retreat, by Tsoknyi Rinpoche on our ultimate reality, where he will point … Continue reading →

Is Our Intelligence Working Against Us? Blinkered by futile diligence, we don’t notice that we are the product. Because we rely on outer knowledge and outer conditions to enhance our lives, we find ingenious ways – with the help of … Continue reading →

Joyful Confusion?! The moment that we recognise we are confused is very significant. That which recognises is not confused. If we don’t know something, that’s okay; we can find out – or not – but, either way, we can realise … Continue reading →

Insight is Wisdom Accurate and deep understanding Insight: Awareness by a mentally ill* person that their mental experiences are not based in external reality. The term ‘mentally ill’ is often used as a spurious or false statement in the popular media, suggesting a crazy or insane person, while the dictionary reveals a … Continue reading →

Treating The Symptoms And Not The Cause If we use ‘treats’ as a treatment to make us feel better, rather than dealing with the cause of the symptom and thereby bring an end it, we will merely go round in … Continue reading →

The Four Compassionate Activities (also known as the four enlightened activities) PACIFYING, ENRICHING, MAGNETISING AND DESTROYING EGO. Pacifying: There are no problems. There is nothing for ego to fight against, which brings inner peace to ego. Enriching: Brings the light … Continue reading →

Realisation Is Hopeless! 🙂

The Show Goes On The word ‘entertainment’ originally meant ‘to maintain’; to maintain our attention. Entertainment has a long term effect on our memories and so, on consciousness, replaying in our mind and captivating us ever after. In this way, … Continue reading →

We Don’t Have To Obsess About Dzogchen I did … We seek the truth because we aren’t satisfied with the world in which we live, so we join an organisation or become attached to set of ideas. Groups use different … Continue reading →

We First Acknowledge Our Dark Side What is our dark side? It is consciousness clinging to an acquired, imagined image of a ‘me’ – and that is the cause of all our troubles. “No, no, my troubles are caused by … Continue reading →

The Effect Of Feeling Unworthy And Inadequate The effect of feeling unworthy and inadequate is that we become half hearted and disconnected, and may even give up. Many religious and spiritual set-ups are so theatrical in their appearance that students … Continue reading →

Why Are We Are So Busy? It is not difficult to reason that we have consciousness, and to reason that consciousness has to be pure consciousness in order for us to see perfectly clearly. This consciousness is, in fact, our … Continue reading →

Wanting To Be On Top Of The Pile “The pile of what?” – Sadhguru “If we want to be better than others, then we want them to be worse.” – Sadhguru “What is the most sophisticated machine on the planet? … Continue reading →

There Is No Need To Be Confused Ever Again! There is no need to be confused ever again! There are merely different names for the same non-thing. Our interpretation of how we think others think may be biased: there is … Continue reading →

If We Just Do What Is Needed If we just do what is needed rather than what we like, our problems would diminish and contentment increase. Our likes and dislikes are products of our past. Assessment of what is needed … Continue reading →

Truth: Simple To Acknowledge, Easy To Forget That which perceives through the senses is consciousness. That which perceives consciousness is consciousness itself. Finding nothing but consciousness, it is realised as being empty of other. It is pure consciousness. That is … Continue reading →

Confusion = Perfect Maths = Realisation Confusion is beautiful: the geometry of mathematical properties and relations. An ice crystal is a unique, geometric design, but if we ignore this icy condition, we will slip in a certain way and break … Continue reading →

First The Inspiration, And Then The Reality When we first seek teachings on truth, we hear positive language to inspire us, offering things we like to hear and associate with. But then, there comes a moment when we realise that … Continue reading →

What Matters Is What We Are, Not What We Know Once we know what we are, then what we know matters. Once, we had bits of information that we believed in. Now, we have bytes of information that we believe … Continue reading →

Teachers Should Be Devoted To Their Students Teachers should be devoted to their students, rather than expecting students to be devoted to them. Teach by example.

Do We Know And Have Enough? If we know we have enough, we are rich. If we think we don’t have enough, we are poor. This applies to both the material world and spirituality. When we know we are pure … Continue reading →

How Do Demons Think? How do demons think? You know. And you know you know 🙂 Demons aren’t something over there; they’re right here. Demons are our own desire, anger, fear, jealousy, pride. Our demons are created the moment when … Continue reading →

Dear Oh Dear, Don’t They Make It Complicated? Complication can hide the simple truth that we are pure consciousness; the truth that we seek. It is from that, that everything flows. There is nothing in inner peace but inner peace.

From Absurdities To Atrocities To Realisation It is truly amazing that we can all see things differently while ‘clear seeing’ itself remains the same. We are all the same Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, original consciousness of purity. Ignoring this pure … Continue reading →

Where Do Our Thoughts Come From? Or rather, where does our programming come from? When we perceive anything, this perception takes place in the mind, and we end up with a reservoir of information, causing the brain to wire in … Continue reading →

Ultimate Nostalgia Nostalgic for what? We all have this longing to be in the right place. But what is this right place? If we look, we will realise that the right place is in that recognition. The right place is not about a place … Continue reading →

How We Sentence Ourselves Whatever views, thoughts, concepts, opinions and fixations we hold on to at this moment will be the basis of our next moment and, for most of us, our entire lives, unfortunately. Holding on to thoughts that … Continue reading →

Seeing, and Then I See Seeing, and then I see. Perception, and then I perceive. There is an extremely subtle difference here. When consciousness does not realise its own nature of purity and instead perceives something, consciousness starts to narrate about whatever … Continue reading →

Tea, Not The Tea Cup “When we want tea, we aren’t bothered about the cup it comes in. Likewise, the Dharma we want is the teaching on the nature of reality: the culture it comes with does not matter. We … Continue reading →

OM MANI PEME HUM is a Mnemonic Mnemonics are an aid to memory The mantra, OM MANI PEME HUM, represents compassion within wisdom. This compassionate wisdom is directed towards what is happening in our own minds, and the minds of others. … Continue reading →

How Everything is Perfect How is everything perfect, when the people are ignoring reality? If we do not sharpen our tool, the cut will not be clean. We know that a blunt tool will produce a ragged edge: this is … Continue reading →

Can’t Meditate? Simply rest in whatever takes place in the mind, in whatever happens. In the very moment of recognition of being aware lies the moment of empty cognisance, pure awareness, Rigpa. Just note and realise that is one’s true … Continue reading →