Author Archives: tony

Words Control Our Mind Language is the scaffold controlling consciousness, and limiting communication. Language itself is an altered state of consciousness that we’re born into; by using prefabricated phrases and social jargon, we surrender to pre-set labels. Meditation erases the … Continue reading →

What If We’re Already Enlightened? What if we’re already enlightened, and nothing special? It would put a lot of gurus out of work, which is the aim of gurus. 🙂 What if our thoughts were obscuring this enlightened state, keeping … Continue reading →

The Meaning Of Life A meaningful life has a goal, a point to it. It’s up to each individual to decide what that is, and the level which satisfies. We have to decide what is unnecessary – and whatever we … Continue reading →

Go Forth And Sparkle 😀 This sparkle encourages positivity, confidence, responsibility, contentment … and anger. Anger?? In the very first instant of seeing that something is amiss, consciousness brightens, and becomes alert. That moment is pure consciousness, before we start … Continue reading →

What Knows? Once we see that ‘personal’ and ‘universal’ are just conceptual bookend labels created by the mind to try and package the un-packageable, they fall away. They are understood to be objects of knowledge, whereas what we are pointing … Continue reading →

What To Do After Realisation Realisation is an enlightened attitude towards everything, because we actually experience the only reality of pure consciousness. It’s quite simple; it’s that which is reading these words right now, without reacting (reactions come along a … Continue reading →

Alienation Coming to a definitive conclusion can alienate or antagonise people who react defensively when their beliefs and opinions aren’t acknowledged. Reliance on belief makes the human mind vulnerable, because belief is not absolute truth. Belief is holding anything we … Continue reading →

We Get Old Because We Stop Playing When we ‘grow up’, we take ourselves seriously.We lose the present moment, and obsess about the past. When we stop being playful, we stop learning and experimenting,no longer finding joy in the small … Continue reading →

Our Moral Landscape There isn’t only one way to be moral. Just as there are many ways to be physically and mentally healthy, there are many ways to be physically and mentally unhealthy. An everyday observer would agree that the … Continue reading →

Compos Mentis – Non-Compos Mentis There are two types of people. Compos mentis is a Latin phrase meaning of sound mind. It describes an individual who has full control over their mental faculties. Non-compos mentis describes someone who is not … Continue reading →

Conquering The Universe Conquer self. Stop panicking. It’s one infinite universe. People may say there are other universes, but they’re all experienced in the infinite space of no circumference. The problem for most people is that they think if there … Continue reading →

This Is Where We Are At Mass delusion is when everyone knows the system isn’t working, but they maintain the pretence of functioning because no alternative is available. Over time, this faked reality becomes the accepted norm, and this is … Continue reading →

Staying On The Right Path Just because we join a ‘spiritual’ tradition doesn’t mean we are on our path. A path is the direction we need to take to transform and eliminate personal fixations, obsessions, confusions. We have to have … Continue reading →

Our Fabulous Teacher The only thing that is new and fresh in this spontaneous moment is an unobstructive mind in which change can occur. This openness allows Hermes / Mercury / Manas – the messengers of the mind – to … Continue reading →

Are We A Lifestyle, Or Life Itself? ‘Lifestyle’ refers to the specific way an individual, group, or culture lives and behaves. Where we live, what we eat, our job, our values beliefs, and personal outlook … all shape our lifestyle. It … Continue reading →

The Age Of Decline – The Age Of Nonsense In this age of decline, we have to be very careful what choices we make and follow. Living by facts can turn out to be nonsense, as this means we live … Continue reading →

Look At Your Own Mind, Rather Than Someone Else’s If we want to realise the ultimate truth, we have to look into our own mind, rather than someone else’s, or a book. In following others’ words – even those of … Continue reading →