Author Archives: tony

Our Spiritual Reality Is Dangerously Simple We can either realise our true nature at any moment and be free of our conceptual prison, or we can miss that very moment and stay embalmed, preserved in a ‘perfumed’, unaltered state. The balance between … Continue reading →

Sacred Text Sacred text is not something to be worshipped through a dark glass. Sacred text describes our own reality and is only known through experience, face to face. We are walking, talking encyclopedias of sacred reality. We can see … Continue reading →

No Aliens, No God, No Cry As long as we are led to believe in something, we will remain subject to uncertainty, vulnerability and misery. In reality, we only need to deal with that which we can see, rather than … Continue reading →

The Great Scavenger Clean Up What else do you think the Buddha and Christ were doing? Maverick yogis are unbranded practitioners.

The Great Vaccination Against Dis-Ease Meditation. Awareness of a mental clarity and a calm state, free of emotions

The Problem Of Trying To Make Sense Of Everything The delusion is that we actually make sense of everything. We are told of the all-seeing-eye of God and despite not having seen it, we still believe. When we understand that … Continue reading →

Our Mind Is Sacred Space Whatever we allow in that sacred space is our responsibility. Sacredness is nowhere else.

Pop Inside And Have A Good Look It’s not difficult. What is difficult is deciding to pop inside to have a good look. Being more bothered about having a good look on the outside, we ignore what’s on the inside. Actually, the … Continue reading →

What Is Spiritual Practice? It is remembering and resting in pure awareness. We remember not to forget our true nature, which is pure awareness, and to be aware of the slightest distraction. That’s all. The more we remember, the less … Continue reading →

The Fine Golden Thread Of Inspiration We all need confidence to stay on the path as there are many levels of enlightenment. Through authentic inspiration, we evolve in steps along our path of confusion. That comes from genuine, raw, personal … Continue reading →

To Want To Be Enlightened Is CRAZY TALK! It’s crazy because wanting to be enlightened is the very reason we do not recognise that the essential nature of mind is already enlightened. In becoming a seeker, we are not seeing and … Continue reading →

Can We Trust Anyone? And … … can they trust us? We live in a make-believe world of mental ideas upon which we fixate, and we defend that vigourously. The point is that everyonelives in a make-believe world, and that … Continue reading →

Dropping The Past The past is only in our mind, and so is the future. This is such a simple truth that we miss it at every moment, and this is why we live in a painful fantasy of illusions. … Continue reading →

Believing In Lies Their lies; our problem Pure consciousness is the truth. Pure consciousness/knowingness is our absolute reality; the only truth. Without that, nothing would be known. Anything we ‘know’ is a relative truth; something pure consciousness relates to. All the things … Continue reading →

Realisation Comes From Resting In Stillness Realisation comes from resting in stillness: then the ‘cat’ stays put!

When Pure Consciousness Became A Consumer… ….it became indebted That is the definition of karma: We consume ideas and obscure our true nature. We bind ourselves to the religion of conceptual consumerism. That binding is the acquisition of ideas, and … Continue reading →

Do We Experience Life Through Computers? How many times have you had a one-to-one, a heart-to-heart, a mind-to-mind, a consciousness-to- consciousness experience? Perhaps only when you patted the dog or stroked the cat? And if you don’t have a dog … Continue reading →

Recognise That You Recognise Recognise and become You are the hero you seek. The Buddha, our teachers, books may all say wonderfully profound things, but what is important is that you‘get it’. You ‘get it’ because you recognise the truth. … Continue reading →

Happiness = Healthy Immune System “Anger and fear eat our immune system. Compassion keeps the immune system healthy. This is why peace of mind is so important through mind training to reduce anxiety.” The Dalai Lama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn2q8l3NJNc Don’t take his … Continue reading →

How Do We Know We Are Evolving? We are happier. We are happy for no reason. Why is that? No idea! Pure consciousness does nothing, as it is purely aware. Just sit and see. Physically and mentally, we have to … Continue reading →

What is being sociable? Society is an interesting phenomenon; it ‘self’-regulates. Being sociable sounds like a nice thing, doesn’t it? It’s being friendly, getting on with other one another, fitting in to the way of things … we are part … Continue reading →

You See Carrying on from yesterday about expansive view being the clear view of pure consciousness, the recognition of this is the moment you see, you see. There is no meditation present, as meditation is doingsomething, whereas the clear view … Continue reading →

Why Is Emptiness So Important? Emptiness is just a word: there are many words for the nature of spirit or mind, the nature of our being: rigpa, mahamudra, sunyata, maha ati, dharmakaya, luminous awareness … but they all mean the … Continue reading →

As Long As We Are Looking, We Will Fail To See Although we are ultimate reality, we still look for ultimate reality. What a joke! How can I be the ultimate reality? What we think of as ‘me’ is not … Continue reading →