Author Archives: tony

We Live In Levels Of Worry Worry is being anxious, troubled and uncertain over actual or potential outcomes. When meeting another person, we may feel nervous or uneasy, wondering if it’s safe to talk about hopes and fears. There is a moment of blankness, and then we find … Continue reading →

Looking For Something That Isn’t There? It isn’t there – it’s right here!

Our World Is Not The Way Others See It Our world is not the way others see it: if it is, we are doomed 😀 Our world is decorated by the influences of others. When we break free of others’ … Continue reading →

Follow The Evidence Follow the evidence, rather than what someone else says. The Buddha would agree with this. How do we follow the evidence? Evidence: from Latin evidentia – ‘obvious to the eye or mind’. Much depends on where we look, and how we … Continue reading →

Proving Consciousness Can science prove consciousness? No. Can we prove consciousness? Yes. Can the Buddha prove consciousness? No. Can we prove consciousness? Yes. Someone else’s evidence isn’t our evidence.

Cutting Through The Web Of Existence Existence: From Latin exsistere ‘come into being’, from ex- ‘out’ + sistere ‘take a stand’. Our true reality is constantly open, never born and never dies. The evidence is that it never changes throughout life does it? Therefore pure consciousness does not … Continue reading →

Gaining Confidence Once we know the essence of a subject, we have a firm foundation to expand our view to incorporate everyone and everything. The essence of everything and everyone is emptiness – consciousness that is uncontaminated. It has no … Continue reading →

Every Encounter Is Our Teacher Every encounter reveals our preloaded, habitual pattern of behaviour. This makes us feel terrible – vulnerable and, maybe, guilty. Cheer up. When we meditate, our mind seems to get worse, but this means we are … Continue reading →

Seeing How We Work There is ordinary consciousness and pure consciousness. There is ordinary mind and pure mind. Ordinary consciousness and ordinary mind are dualistic = ‘me’ and ‘other’, creating judgement and comment. Pure consciousness and pure mind are non-dualistic … Continue reading →

Under The Cover Of Incompetence Under the cover of incompetence, we believe what we see. Supposed incompetence is how this world is run, and we fall for it every time. As long as we are identifying with incompetence, we won’t … Continue reading →

Animals Aren’t Evil Animals aren’t evil – only humans can be evil. All sentient beings are moved by fear, hope and indifference to survive, but it is only when we hold on to our fears, hopes and indifferences that evil … Continue reading →

Propaganda Can Be Teachings Spiritual teachings show us what is obvious and clearly seen. When we see clearly, we see more. There is propaganda everywhere, telling us subconsciously how to think. These signs are teachings. When we read the signs … Continue reading →

We Are The Mystery We are the mystery – not our reality! In its inception, our self-image was created by consciousness being confused about its reality. That is the mystery. When we realise our true reality, there is no mystery.

Return To Sender If we do not react to others’ abuse or emotions, we reduce the effect of our karma, and the abuse simply returns to the sender. Now they have to deal with their karma.

If We Do Not Believe In God If we don’t believe in God, why do we shout (when something goes wrong) – “Jesus!!” or reply to something we don’t know – “God knows?!” The words are ingrained in our subconscious … Continue reading →

The State Of Denial Is it possible that denial is a coping mechanism? If we haven’t woken up to something being very wrong, we are in a state of denial, and will fight to stay in that place. Truth irritates … Continue reading →

Wrong Think Wrong think: A lack of trust in authority. Is questioning a crime? An example: being kicked out of a spiritual group for not believing. 🙂

We Are Not As Clever As We Think We are not as clever as we think – we are cleverer! When we are just using our mind, we’re borrowing ideas from others, and merely putting those ideas together in a … Continue reading →