Author Archives: tony

“Hiding Your Light Under A Bushel” A bushel: a measurement of weight … or ideas! If our life is only concerned with gain and loss / hope and fear, the inner light of compassionate, pure consciousness will remain hidden. Being … Continue reading →

Karma Is Our Perfect Teacher Karma is the residue of our past judgements held in the mind, which are echoed in our behaviour. The path to enlightenment is dealing with this inner echo – our sticky residue. Our attitude to life … Continue reading →

Science And Spirituality Are Not Different What looks down the microscope? Looking and seeing are inseparable. If spirit fixates on looking, it will be caught and held. When spirit realises it is seeing, it has found what it has been … Continue reading →

“It Does Not Take Many Words To Tell The Truth.” Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890) “The love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They … Continue reading →

Ignorance Has Consequences Indifference – not caring, being unaware – has consequences. There are two sides to everything, even consciousness. We have to know both sides, as both have consequences. We are ultimate reality of pure consciousness, and we are … Continue reading →

We Live In A Semiconscious Trance Trance: a half-conscious state. Generally, we are conscious enough to survive and carry out mundane tasks. It is usually only in times of anxiety that we awaken for a moment, and then return to our trance … Continue reading →

Seeing Our Teacher As The Buddha Being told to see our teacher as the Buddha puts a distance between us and the teacher, setting the scene for delaying progress. We are all both human and Buddhas. Adapting Means Being Able … Continue reading →

Can Language Confuse? Experience is very subtle – extremely subtle – to an extent that is beyond words. Words become second-hand, and are an approximation. ‘Love’ is such a word: there are degrees of feeling, caring, being at peace, having … Continue reading →

Judgement, And Being Judgemental One is momentary, while the other is a way of life: Tony is drunk, or Tony is a drunkard. In the moment now, we need to judge whether something is beneficial or harmful. It is when … Continue reading →

2021: The Year That We All Went Mad Confusion is rife. May we realise the source of our confusion. May we find our way out of confusion. May confusion dawn as wisdom.

Evil Feeds Off Our Negativity Evil feeds off our negativity,and when we are negative,we are drained of energy. Positivity is constant harmony,and we feel energised. Ultimate positivity is Shunyata – emptiness.Being empty, evil finds nothing to gain,nothing to chew over.

  An Idea Is Like A Virus An idea is like a virus; going undetected, it duplicates itself and infects others, corrupting and destroying the whole system. Memes are like that. An idea is placed into a society and is … Continue reading →

Self-Realisation Isn’t About Religion To realise our true nature as distinct from our inner chattering mind, we merely have to become aware of … just being aware. Within this clarity of awareness, distractions that carry us away are easily observed. … Continue reading →

Everything Is Complementary Being complementary is the inseparability of the two truths: relative and ultimate. The ultimate truth is clear seeing, or pure consciousness. The relative truth relates to what is seen. The two truths are like a mirror and … Continue reading →

Hoax Upon Hoax We live under two ignorances: the ignorance of our reality, and the maintenance of that ignorance. As long as we look elsewhere for truth, we will never notice that it is, in fact, truth that is looking. … Continue reading →

Spirit Guides? What is conscience? Is conscience personal morality, or is there external guidance? Does our conscience change? Does like attract like? When everything seems karmically significant, instruction is always at hand. How do we know the right thing to … Continue reading →

Priests Of News News is the new religion that binds us to spreading the ‘word’. Whose word? And is it the complete truth? Who is telling us the complete truth? The complete truth – that which completes the picture – … Continue reading →

Still Wanting Something Better? Pure consciousness is all we need to know to solve our problems. Unable to give this its true value, we are found wanting. That which is watching this feeling of inadequacy is pure consciousness itself. That … Continue reading →

Swimming In A Sea Of Information, And Drowning In Ignorance Thus is the fog of humanity’s consciousness, drowning in side issues – and our relationship with spiritual teachings can also be like this. The essence of teaching is very simple, … Continue reading →

Can Others Out-Think Us? They’re the ones who make up the games for us to play. They’re the ones who make up the news for us to believe. They’re the ones who make up the laws for us to depend … Continue reading →

World Domination? Why Do They Bother? Being ignorant of true human potential – enlightenment – the essence of consciousness moves on, never knowing its true nature. Those who think that their family power lives on ignore the fact that it … Continue reading →

We Cannot Say That We Don’t Know We cannot say that we don’t know. We all know.

How To Rule: Keep A Crisis Going As long as we are in crisis, we will remain divided. Divided, we build walls that maintain the crisis. Crisis: the turning point of a disease when an important change takes place, indicating either recovery or death.

Nothing Makes Sense … Or Does It? Is it always a cock-up? If we apply conventional thinking, we come up with conventional answers which are never insightful. When we apply Dharma, we know that everything comes about through causes and … Continue reading →

Q. How Do I Confirm My True Existence? A. Who asks the question?

We Can Meditate Without Thinking We do it all the time, without noticing. All we have to do is notice.

Have You Been Assimilated? How do you know you haven’t been assimilated? Are your thoughts your own, or are they part of the collective? The test: Can you switch off? 

How To Meditate All Day Long, And Not ‘Meditate’ It’s quite simple. Don’t wander. Just be at one with any situation. Trite, but true – unremarkable in a remarkable way. We go about our day as usual, and experience everything … Continue reading →

Meditation Takes No Time Time does not exist in meditation. Time only exists when we are involved in mind and body. Until we come to rest in timeless awareness beyond memories, we will always be relating to things. That is … Continue reading →

Enlightenment: A Rude Awakening A rude awakening: the surprise of discovering that we are mistaken. A rude awakening: Reality isn’t what we think, and never has been. Thinking in words limits experience. To get what we want, we think of … Continue reading →

Being Aware Of Ego And Egoless-ness To be absorbed by desires and fears, or not to be absorbed by desires and fears. Constant egoless-ness is ultimate enlightenment. This is our natural state. We gain a glimpse of this state in … Continue reading →