Author Archives: tony

Finding Others In The Light Finding others in the light of reality is a rare event. Everyone is the light but they don’t know it as either their interests lie elsewhere, or the light has been formalised, dwelling in dim ideas, … Continue reading →

Never Think You Know The Answer Never think you know the answer.You are the answer! Thinking that we know is Mara activity, demonic activity, where we just go round and round in conflicting circles in pointless, polemic, controversial debate or dispute. … Continue reading →

Fear And Hope In Spiritual Groups Adoration is spiritual materialism.  It’s the eternal play of hope and fear – hoping to be accepted, and fearing rejection.  We fall into acting, while the essence of the teaching is to know thy self thy … Continue reading →

To Be Hinged Or Unhinged  To be hinged or unhinged; that is the question. Whether to suffer the unhinged or, by opposing, become hinged. Whether to assume we are normal or to question this ‘normality’. We all assume that we are … Continue reading →

Being Out Of Sync We read or hear words, but they don’t quite hit the spot. Why not?  We’re all at different stages of evolving/awakening; the words stay the same, but our understanding is out of sync. There is recognition, … Continue reading →

What’s Inside Comes Out If we have wisdom, that’s what comes out.If we have hatred, that’s what comes out.If we have indifference, that’s what comes out. Whatever’s inside comes out.

Mysticism Mysticism: Transcending ordinary human understanding. A sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination concerned with spirit, rather than with material things. Whether mysticism is a mystery or not depends on our understanding When we wake up from our idealistic dream to our reality of pure … Continue reading →

Why We Don’t Perceive Reality Reality – which is pure consciousness – has been sidetracked due to education, society and the media to see through a veil of concepts-restrictions. Concepts alter our pure perception. As long as we go along … Continue reading →

    What Are We Proud Of?  We’re proud of our menu of ideas.Menu: from Latin, minutus, ‘very small’. Pride is our personal dungeon of existence.What are we trying to impress? Others’ menus.😀

Emptiness Is The Ultimate In Sophistication Emptiness is the ultimate in sophistication.There is nothing more sophisticated than pure awareness. Like infinite space, it contains everything.The essence of mind is total openness,without exaggerations.

There’s Something Wrong, Isn’t There? There’s something wrong, isn’t there?Or are things going right? It all depends on one’s point of view. If we are evil, things are going right.And if we understand about cause and effect, things are going right. … Continue reading →

Buddhism Isn’t Anti-Life Buddhism is living life to the full, experiencing everything that comes our way as our teacher. Life teaches us something when perception is fully open. Buddhism isn’t about suffering; it is the path to alleviatesuffering, dissatisfaction, conflict, confusion … … Continue reading →

Have You Ever Met Anyone … Have you ever met anyone you can truly talk to? People talk about anything but actual reality. To truly talk, we have to step outside the cycle of speculation. Gaining confidence is expanding our horizon … Continue reading →

It’s All A Cover-Up It’s all a cover-up.“What is?”Our true reality. We live in a make-believe world, where truth is rarely spoken. We may talk about a cover-up, but do we know what the cover-up is covering up? As long as we … Continue reading →

My Turning Point My turning point was when I realisedthat the Dharma is within,and isn’t reliant on anything or anyone external. The Buddha was right. The external is a starting point to realising that corruption and the path are the same … Continue reading →

The Vicious Cycle Of Existence? The vicious cycle of existence … really? The phrase ‘the vicious cycle of existence’ is an idiom that is trotted out all the time among Buddhists. Do you ever wonder why we say things – or rather repeat things … Continue reading →

If We All Come From One Source … If we all come from one source,what source would that be?  What qualities is this source projecting?Are people a representation of that source? We’re in constant conflict with one another.Does this represent … Continue reading →

We Are Closer Than We Think How many people are stuck in their minds, in memories and illusions obscuring the present? This is the sad world we live in but, at the same time, it’s also enlightening because we see … Continue reading →

Why Are Things Going Wrong? Have you considered the fifth column(s)?The means behind the scenes.Whatever is happening will happen anyway; it always has. “A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favour of an enemy group or another nation. “Their activities can be overt or clandestine, and can involve … Continue reading →

Free Will Free will means free consciousness. It’s not a matter of being free to choose, as that is determined by our minds’ judgements, based on preconceived ideas. Free will is being free of everything.

Evil Takes Naturally Occurring Events … Evil takes a naturally occurring eventand exaggerates it to manipulate, which will cause conflict. The natural occurring event is compassionwhich becomes my compassion, my caring.

Encouraged To Follow Our Dreams …  Our dreams are just desires.Desires hold us spellbound. We just deal with whatever comes our wayrather than chasing sentimentalities. Our way is our path.

Losing The Connection When we lose the connection with reality, we lose the connection with each another.  The ability to connect has nothing to do with ideas or culture.It is knowing our commonality of pure consciousness. Realising this connection is the … Continue reading →

We Think That What We Think Matters We think that what we think matters.What actually matters is realising what thinks.🙂 The mind does not think: it’s just memories and bits of information.The essence of mind is pure consciousness; it’s what … Continue reading →

Why Are We Offended? We’re offended because we don’t know that evil takes naturally occurring events and exaggerates them. We’re controlled by our ideas – or rather, others’ ideas which we’ve acquired – that form our likes and dislikes. If others … Continue reading →

Happy, But Still Feeling Wrong Why? Most people’s happiness relies on a condition that they can talk about with others. Being happy for no reason doesn’t rely on conditions as there’s nothing to talk about. This isn’t at all interesting … Continue reading →

This Cannot Be Repeated Enough  Chasing the exotic ignores that which is already present;this cannot be repeated enough. Direct awareness is common to all. Anything else is merely a symbol, and we can become hung-up on symbols. Exotic customs can … Continue reading →

It’s Our Imperfections That Make Us Perfect If we think we are perfect, we become cleverly stuck in what we do. Knowing we are imperfect is our path to enlightenment.

Taken Over By A Self What is taken over?Consciousness.  We are given a ‘uniform’ at birth, a cultural identity which is the foundation of incarceration in a self. This self has no reality; it’s just a few ideas sewn together … Continue reading →

There Are Two Powers At Work There are two powers at work –the moral and the immoral. Wisdom eliminates confusion.Confidence eliminates doubt. Confusion eliminates wisdom.Doubt eliminates confidence.