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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 →

We Are Incomprehensible The moment now is incomprehensible.The infinite universe is incomprehensible.Pure consciousness which observes the incomprehensible is incomprehensible. The origin is before words. Any discussion about that which is beyond the mind is incomprehensible.Unfortunately, people discuss the incomprehensible because … Continue reading →

Too Much Formality Formality: rigid adherence to established rules, customs, etiquette. When formality takes over from essence, we are back in the vicious cycle of existence and competitiveness, and have become seduced by display, which is our history of illusion. … Continue reading →

The Buddha Didn’t Tell Us What To Be, But How To Be What to be is following others.How to be is being what we are. The Buddha didn’t offer a rigid blueprint for what to be, but rather a practical … Continue reading →

When We Think, We Are Dreaming When we think we know, we’re dreaming.Our waking reality is the knowingness before we think we know. True wakefulness is pure consciousness – that gap between thoughts.We miss it every time because we’re so … Continue reading →

Guru Means Teacher But what is the teacher? The process. If consciousness is unaware that it is governed by memories in the mind, this causes an emotional reaction. That reaction is our teacher, showing consciousness what it is holding onto, … Continue reading →

The Right Delivery System – A Buddha There are so many people talking about our reality of pure consciousness (including yours truly), but it takes a specific person to actually convey the message at the right time to the right … Continue reading →

Too Much Formality Formality: from the Latin word forma, which means shape, mould or structure. When we slip into the mould of conformity, we become too serious, too righteous, too dark.The essence of teaching is light, clarity, emptiness, rather than … Continue reading →

Not Trusting Anyone? It’s understandable. How many people genuinely experience the truth of pure consciousness? We can all talk about ‘the truth’ – even AI can do that – but no one can actually show us the truth. Never be … Continue reading →

We Are Remnants Of The Past Remnants of the past create our present.Whatever happens now creates remnants for our future. The wise know this, and the unscrupulous also know this. Those in between just accept it as the way of … Continue reading →

Once We Know, We Cannot Un-know Awakening to our true reality of pure consciousness is seeing with clarity. We recognise all that obscures this reality – all the intellectual obstacles of distraction that have clouded pure vision. We remember what … Continue reading →

Lacking Compassion = Narcissism The tendency for spiritually minded individuals to become insular, withdrawn, exclusive or detached from broader society is a well-documented psychological and social phenomenon. While spirituality aims for universal connection, the journey can inadvertently create walls between … Continue reading →

We Live In An Oxymoron – That’s Why We Suffer Oxymoron: apparently contradictory terms appearing together, eg futile diligence. ‘We’ believe in a ‘self’: pure consciousness believes it’s a created self. I think, therefore I am. The visible and mental universe is built on … Continue reading →

Evil Is An Exaggerated ‘I’ This evil is reflected in every conversation, when we stop connecting with others through our need for validation. Evil is the exaggeration of ‘I’ – an inflated ego which uses the listener to confirm its … Continue reading →

Vulnerable To Corruption There are two aspects to consciousness: one is attachment to thoughts, while the other is freedom from thoughts – the pure essence of mind. These are termed relative reality and absolute reality. Most humans aren’t homo sapiens … Continue reading →

How Do We Know We Aren’t Brainwashed? An example of this might be the suggestion that we have consciousness, when we are consciousness. Or that there has to be a beginning of the universe and therefore there is a creator, … Continue reading →