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The Importance Of Understanding What do we think life is all about? Our answer will reveal what life means to us.Is it about wealth, power, cleverness, skill …or understanding? The word ‘understanding’ does not mean knowing about something; it literally … Continue reading →

We All Have Dark Pasts Dark means troubled.That’s why we’re here – to either lighten up or cover up! The purpose of life is to enlighten up, to know what we are, and leave all speculation behind. In taking our … Continue reading →

Words Fill Our Minds Words fill up our minds, obscuring consciousness. To see past the veil of words, we practise witnessing by simply notice them passing through the mind. This creates a gap of silence between the words, allowing consciousness … Continue reading →

Unblocking Enlightenment Unblocking enlightenment requires shifting our approach from seeking a goal to undoing conditioning. The ultimate barrier to awakening is the intense desire to reach it. Because our true nature is already complete, the frantic search itself creates the … Continue reading →

Social Grooming Social grooming is achieved through interaction as a way to keep humans in check by maintaining the network of conformity. Life may look as if different scenarios are happening, but it’s all about conforming to a type – … Continue reading →

Stop Looking: Just See, Just Hear … We look for something interesting to occupy us. The moment we become attached to the noise or the scrolling, we’ve lost contact with reality. We’re trapped in a fiction, never notice we are … Continue reading →

Consciousness Embodied In A Biological Apparatus We don’t experience anything external directly; things are experienced through the senses and into our mind, and phenomena is labelled. These labels become our thoughts which we use to navigate life. But what if … Continue reading →

The Illusion Of The Blueprint To build anything, the ground has to be cleared first. We have an elite in the world whose aim is to ‘build back better’ in their image, for material gain. This better is not what … Continue reading →

Do We Feel Safe In A Group? A group may be family, friends, political associates, work colleagues, spiritual members, or just people with the same interests as us, where we use the same language. We feel safe in a group … Continue reading →

Fixation Is Addiction Fixations limit our potential, and that programmes our life. Spiritual paths are no different as we all acquire certain ways. To become unfixed, we need to be dedicated to letting go. Dedication is a healthy, purpose-driven commitment.A … Continue reading →

How We Improved Our Understanding How do we know we’re a better person than we were before?We are more confident, accommodating and compassionate. We don’t take ourselves seriously, as our self is just an old idea that has very strong … Continue reading →

An Unusual Pointing Out Instruction This unusual pointing out instruction into the essence of mind is as follows:Sit with eyes open, without straining.Allow the whole scene to enter the eye as if everything is looking in.That’s it. There’s no time … Continue reading →

The Nature Of Mind And The Essence Of Mind This can be confusing. The essence of mind is ethereal pure consciousness; it’s what we are.The nature of mind is the construct of thoughts held within essence. It’s like this empty, … Continue reading →

Self-Aware Or Self-Conscious? Dropping the judgement or creating it? Being self-aware means that we can step back and observe ourself like an objective outsider. Being self-conscious means that we are painfully aware of being evaluated. That creates a loud inner … Continue reading →

Interrupting The Dream Waking up to our reality is the purpose of life. Most of us think we are awake, but in fact we’re only functioning in a dream state, a programmed pattern, a routine. When we’re fixated on ideas, … Continue reading →

Pure Consciousness Is Neither Right Nor Wrong Realisation is wordless. Trying to express this wordless consciousness is absurd. We live in a paradox – we are wordless consciousness, but we’re talking all the time (or hearing words in our head). … Continue reading →

Analysing Our Life On analysing our life, the decisions we made, and the outcomes – is it a life of realisation or confusion?Either way, we shouldn’t be smug or depressed.It’s our personal lesson. For a practitioner, bad news is good … Continue reading →

Why Talk About The Negative Side Of Life? There is nothing to say about pure consciousness as it is the wordless realisation of our ultimate reality. There is, however, much to say about whatever obscures this reality, causing suffering. Everything … Continue reading →