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The Practice With No Hardships Just be aware of awareness. All we have to do is remember. Alternatively, we could make it complicated: whatever words we use, we’re saying the same thing. Simply, barely, exactly, precisely, entirely, absolutely, completely, totally, aware of awareness.

Our Conduct Must Match Our Realisation Our conduct must match our realisation, otherwise we will become arrogant. Realisation is a “piece of cake” (so easy that we don’t have to think about it), while taming our mind and our conduct … Continue reading →

Is Seeking The Truth A Sin? If we seek the truth, we do not accept that what we have been told is the truth. Sin: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. How does one transgress divine … Continue reading →

Happiness Is Realising The Problem We are never unhappy for no reason. Everything has a cause. We may be unhappy because we wanted something and didn’t get it. We may be unhappy because we didn’t want something but got it. … Continue reading →

Thinking Clearly Thinking clearly doesn’t mean we have to be great thinkers: it just means thinking outside the box. Repeating what we’ve been told may make us seem very clever, but this cleverness is still inside the box. Thinking clearly … Continue reading →

We Cannot Find It We cannot find it because we are it, so there’s no getting away from it. This ‘it’ is pure consciousness, – or God. Truth has to be realised, not worshipped.

The Undo Button The undo button ends all suffering. We merely have to hold it down until we realise that the suffering does not exist, and that there was no need for a button at all. We may think that … Continue reading →

How We Realise Ultimate Truth Look into the one who is looking. Look into the one who is questioning. Look into the one who is hearing thoughts. “Surely it cannot be that simple!” Who says? Study and ritual are symbolic … Continue reading →

Inspiration From An Insidious Source Insidious: mid 16th century from Latin insidiosus ‘cunning’, from insidiae ‘an ambush or trick’, from insidere ‘to lie in wait for’. Deliberate memes create our norm. Meme: an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means. We meditate … Continue reading →

Emptiness Is All You Need, To Know When the mind is free of bias, the view is clear. In emptiness, my likes, my dislikes, my carelessness are clearly recognised. We can also recognise when others’ are imposing their likes, dislikes … Continue reading →

This Person Isn’t Me Person: from Old French persone, from Latin persona; ‘actor’s mask, character in a play’ Later- human being. So what am I? We are not exactly that which is aware of this persona, this mask: that is ordinary consciousness. On a subtler … Continue reading →

The Two Aspects of Our Being The pure, empty spirit of cognisant consciousness, and reflections of thoughts and images. Our absolute being is like an clear mirror that reflects everything without comment. When this pure consciousness (absolute truth) attaches itself … Continue reading →

Dealing With An Agitated Mind Simply be aware of that which is aware of the agitation, and rest that clarity. The same goes for all emotions. Knowing that the Sanskrit word for ‘suffering’ is ‘duhkha’ doesn’t help, does it? There … Continue reading →

Adaptability is the Definition of Intelligence If we are not adaptable, then we are fixated. Whatever appears in a fixated mind is a threat. Whatever appears in an open mind is wisdom. Ultimately, an open mind is pure consciousness, empty … Continue reading →

Spiritually Empty? Well, you can’t get better than that! Em Ah Ho! (how wonderful) …what were you expecting?! 😀

Is There a Universal Creator? How did it all begin? We have a distortion in our perception that creates an illusion. Realising this illusion is the path to enlightened wisdom. Most of us don’t bother with the question, “Is there … Continue reading →

Practice Is More Important Than Knowledge Through practice, we realise the wisdom-knowledge within. Outer knowledge is theory. Inner realisation born of wisdom manifests as genuine empathetic compassion. That is the spiritual litmus test. When stillness walks into a room, we know … Continue reading →

The Name Of This Blog I wanted to call the blog, “Buddhas In The Mud”, in the sense that we are all Buddhas dwelling in the mud of concepts. But when spoken, that could sound like, “Buddha’s In The Mud”, … Continue reading →

Robot To Preach At Buddhist Temple “Kannon” is designed to attract young people to a Kyoto temple. The question is, “Why?” Is the path of believing a machine the path to believing any machine? And who writes the data? And at what … Continue reading →